text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Maximo Nivel - Antigua Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Maximo Nivel - Antigua Goto page Previous 1, 2, 3 Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Latin America Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message chelseagglass90Joined: 08 Dec 2011Posts: 8Location: Antigua, Guatemala Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 6:49 pm Post subject: my apologies, didn't know you were British. Funny though because my TEFL trainer was a British guy I should be use to seeing the c's by now. My grammar isn't bad I just simply type the way I am speaking in my head and I don't have the time to go through and make sure things are perfect. Like I said earlier I have been keeping up with things on Dave's ESL cafe since before I took my TEFL course, including the forums and found this. Anyways people are all different, Maximo worked for me. I am going to continue changing and growing and I will probably seek out more education in this field if I decide to stick with it, however Maximo Nivel gave me a great foundation. Thanks for the advice about Coban, my boyfriend's family is from there I might end up there someday to work on their dairy farm..maybe work in some teaching time. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Latin America Forum All times are GMTGoto page Previous 1, 2, 3 Page 3 of 3 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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DEXTR – Twitter for your second screen
One of the things we've been thinking about recently is screens. In Russell's blog post from last week he alluded to a little thing we've been using for a while but hadn't quite finished off for public consumption.
All the chatter around the fantastic BERG/Dentu films last week reminded us to get it out the door, and here it is:
DEXTR is a full screen Twitter client. It shows one tweet at a time, filling the screen. And it accelerates and decelerates depending on how fast your Twitter stream is going.
It's a bit of an experiment. A way of learning about ambient screens — seeing what works and what doesn't. Is it too bright, too fast, too annoying? Or maybe just too quiet and forgettable. What's the right kind of screen, in the right kind of place to put this on? And does anyone even want anything like this, or are we trying to fill all these media surfaces with something, anything?
There's one known problem – iOS devices turn the screen off after a few minutes of inactivity in Safari. There doesn't seem to be a way around that for web applications – we'll have to wrap it in a proper iOS application to stop that.
We've got some ideas about how this could develop, but for now this is a beta, and we'd love to hear what you think.

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Railroad Semantics #3
by Aaron Dactyl
Railroad Semantics combines personal accounts of train hopping with a slew of diverse railroad-themed articles, and pictures of rail-yard graffiti. Aaron hops to Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, California, and Wyoming, and collects newspaper clippings along the way. Subjects include railway murders, track replacement efforts, the Dunsmuir Railroad Museum, the sale of Burlington Northern, and multiple train derailments. Railroad Semantics has so much content, it's a perfect read to while away the hours while doing some traveling of your own.
- Razorcake 9/30/2014
"Aaron's travelogue is excellently written and engaging. Even the rather dull parts of waiting hours for the train to disembark are full of introspective thought and observation."
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Volume 17 Issue 12 / August 13 - 19, 2004
Starring Mickey Rooney and Jan Chamberlin Rooney
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No business like showing it
At 83, Mickey Rooney and his bride are still putting on shows
By Jerry Tallmer
In this city, he saysMickey Rooney says with bleak despair, like a fighter coming up off the canvasthey dime you to death.
Well, I guess Ive felt exactly that waywith causea few million times since I first saw that movie and heard him say it. I think the picture must have been Life Begins for Andy Hardy.
Do you remember that line, Mr. Rooney? the actor was asked.
He was in Minneapolis, in a hotel there, with his wife Jan. The two of them have an act, Lets Put on a Showsome songs, some words, some laughs, some memories, with which theyve been touring the country, preparing to bringing it to the sweet little Irish Repertory Theatre, right here on Manhattans West 22nd Street, for a month-long run starting Tuesday, August 10.
Do you remember that line? the moviegoer asked on the telephone from New York, attempting to communicate some of its personal impact.
A growled negative comes over the phone from Minneapolis, followed by, Its just a line in a movie.
Another little-known, but noteworthy fact: Maya Deren, the Greenwich Villager who was the first, most poetic and to this day greatest American avant-garde filmmaker, once confessed that she still cried at Andy Hardy movies.
Does Mickey Rooney ever watch any of them these days?
Brusquely: No, no.
Jan Chamberlin Rooney was altogether charming and outgoing on the same telephone. Yes, she said, in response to a question, there is in fact a script. We talk about Mickeys early childhood, and his entry into show business.
From the cradle, wasnt it?
Yes, literally. (Not quite, but close enough.) Mickey jokes, tells stories, does incredible imitations. Jimmy Stewart, Jimmy Cagney, Bogart, everybody. Boy, he hasnt lost that!
Mickey Rooney made more than 300 motion pictures, won two Academy Awards, was married eight times, starred on Broadway and in London and done countless TV guest and other appearances. How did he and Jan Chamberlin meet?
At an agents party in Hollywood in 1974, and weve been together ever since. Mickey actually lived near me when I was growing up in the San Fernando Valley, but I didnt know that.
Warren Beatty had me recorded, she said, before I ever met Mickey, but I was kinda shy and still a little young [so the recording went nowhere]. I was doing a nightclub act, and then I meet Mickey, and we did The Love Boat together on TV and I played a nun, which was not type casting, I assure you.
I was married only once before, to a fella in the industry. And Mickey, who has nine children from different marriages, raised my two sons from when they were little kids. His wives? I spoke with Ava [Gardner] a couple of times on the phone. A lovely person. I met two of the others. But this is the marriage that took.
Her husband comes on the phone.
Weve been doing this version for five years, he said. We love working together. Its fun.
In the act, he sings a bunch of the great old MGM-era standards like Where or When and But Not for Me, plus a number of songs with his own lyrics (Guess Im Coming Down With the Blues, Were Married, Judy). Mrs. Rooney, who has a considerably more flexible vocal range than her husband at this stage of the game, does a Patsy Cline medley, and she and he combine on Making Whoopee.
Had Rooney ever done a double before? (Not counting the gigs with Donald OConnor.) A double with any of those other ladies?
No, never, he said. This is the only one that counts. Nah, theres no script. We wing it.
Does it begin with the beginning of your life?
No, no, not that far back
I was born in Brooklyn, says the son of vaudeville artists Joe Yule and Nell Carter Yule. When I was two days old we left and went to Garden City.
You made 300-some movies and your book is called Life Is Too Short, but, Mr. Rooney, your life has not been short.
No, said 83-year-old Mickey Rooney, but I got news for you: You gotta keep going. They just gave me another star, you know, on Hollywood Boulevard [this time, in April, for Mr. and Mrs. Rooney].
When you were a kid making all those movies at MGM, did you ever sleep? Were you insanely overworked, the way Judy Garland later said she always felt?
Thats not true. Well, it was a different time. Now it takes them two years to make a picture. We made Boys Town in two weeks. And Judy and I, when we did those musicals, each of them took all of five or six weeks.
Short pause. Then, half-said, half-grunted: Whatever she did, she did to herself.
Mr. Rooney, did you ever put on a play in a barn?
No. But thats what we call our act, Lets Put on a Show.
Pressed to name a couple of his favorites among those 300 movies he made, at first he said, Oh, I dont know, but then, one by one, as if minting them, Rooney came up with Boys Town (1938); National Velvet (1949); The Bridges of Toko-Ri (1956)and, I guess, the Andy Hardy movies (1937-1947).
If he doesnt watch any of his old movies nowand he again said he doesntwhat if any current films has he liked?
This time there was a sustained silence. Finally: Well, that one with my friends Sean Penn and Tim RobbinsMystic River. Tim Robbins and I were in Erik the Vikingthe 1989 satire in which Rooney played Eriks (that is, Robbins) grandfather, and John Cleese also appeared.
At that point, Jan Rooney chimed back in, We were at Anthony Hopkinss wedding in Malibu a couple of years ago, and John Cleese was there, and we talked of old times, and I sang Amazing Grace and Over the Rainbow.
Mrs. Rooney, did you ever watch any of your husbands old movies?
Of course I did, because Im a horse lover, and Mickey of course was in National Velvet. Do you remember when kids had trading cards? Well, in my family the important trading cards were Seabiscuit and Man of War. I loved Seabiscuit, and 25 years ago I got the [cinematic] rights to Seabiscuit, and when I got married to Mickey I loved the idea of my husband playing Seabiscuits trainer, but Mickey said: Nobodys interested in Mickey Rooney playing Seabiscuits trainer.
So that didnt happen. And then he went and made The Black Stallion, with Rooney as Henry Dailey, the comeback trainer, in 1979.
Neither Mickey Rooney nor his eighth wife, this one of more than 25 years, has ever before been to the Irish Rep. How many does it hold? he wanted to know.
Jan Chamberlin Rooney offered a more cosmic closing: Do you believe in feng shui? If you believe in feng shui, number eight is the luckiest number.
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|2003-12-05, 09:54
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Kaizoku-Fansubs, why leave out the credits?
I'm really a newbie when it comes to fansubs but, watching One Piece from Kaizoku-Fansubs, I come across a strange new situation. Why are the closing credits missing? *confused look*
So far, all the other fansubbed series I've been watching include the closing credits. But they are missing from the One Piece fansubs. I'll like to know the reason. (I'm not criticizing or demanding. I'm only curious as to why.) I'm a voice actor fan and I like to watch the closing credits to know who is responsible for voicing which character. It's kind of frustrating not having the closing credits to watch because One Piece has an amazing cast of primary as well as supporting characters and I have yet to find a site that lists all the parts and all the voice actors responsible.
On a more general note, may I ask the other fansub watchers on this forum..... do you care if the closing credits are included or not? Why..... if you do care and why not if you don't?
Sometimes closing credits are important. For instance Saiyuki Reload. Those who watch Saiyuki Reload will know why. *wink*
Anyway, generally, I feel that closing credits should be included. In much the same way that fansubbers always include their own credits crediting the people who timed, translated, checked, etc....... because they feel these people should be given credit for their hard work, I think it's important to leave the ***original*** credits which list the Japanese cast and crew intact.
|2003-12-05, 10:36
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Afflicted by the vanities
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Fish-shape Paumanok
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Eloquently titled previous thread:
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|2003-12-05, 11:06
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Fushigi Mystery!! @_@
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Canada, eh?
K-F does that so they don't have to be bothered to take more time to encode each episode's proper OP/ED sequence, they just use a stock one and slap it on each episode they put together. They also don't include the next ep previews because they feel it spoils too much of the next episode in their opinion (which I don't agree with). K-F is acting much like some licensing company in that regard.
|2003-12-05, 11:18
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|2003-12-05, 11:22
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Even as webmasters and fansubbers, we all feel we should be given credit for our effort...... no? I'm sure even K-F will agree with that. They love their site and they want their fansubbing effort to be recognized. (And personally I think they do a great job with the translation and subbing.) But if the *original* credits are chopped off....... but the credits for their own fansubbing efforts are left in........ I don't know. Maybe I'm not seeing this thing properly but I feel it's kind of unfair. *huge sweat drop* Again, I want to emphasize that I'm not trying to stir up an unpleasant debate. I would just like to be able to see things from a different point of view. *sweat drop*
|2003-12-05, 13:07
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Senior Member
Fansubbers should not alter the video in any way. It was intended by the Japanese producers to be seen that way, so it's our responsibility to uphold their efforts. The same goes for not removing japanese credits... In fact it's much more important to have japanese credits than it is to have fansub credits because, let's face it, their work is a lot more important and harder than ours :P
|2003-12-05, 13:28
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: nyc
Age: 31
actually, i think... i think, you maybe able to find the cast of voice actors from animenfo, as well as other information that you talked about, in the ending-credits. i think KF did the best job on One Piece in terms of video quality and translation, so if leaving out the credits and previews can alleviate their work-load, i don't think that's such a bad thing, i mean if you need to know everything, just do a search on google and eventually you'll end up with something.
peronally, i'm just grateful that KF...and in general all fansubs are there to bring the anime to us at all. i mean i barely do any free-work at all. being persnickety isn't all that bad, but i figured if something can be done on your own, i'd probably do it myself rather than making complaints to the group who did all the hard work during their freetime.
|2003-12-05, 13:37
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If they need to alleviate their work-load then they are not fansubbing for the right reasons. It is a hobby nothing more. If they are cutting off the credits to save them time that is a very bad thing.
|2003-12-05, 13:38
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|2003-12-05, 15:29
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Mmm ... let's say the op and ed take up 25 megs of the encode. Now multiply that by 72 and look at all the wasted space that could be better spent on a higher quality encode.
Back in the day of stamp-sized DIVX encodes (<75MB), the op and ed were regularly taken out because people realized that bandwidth was precious. If I were to start DL all of One Piece from the batch torrents at about 100k/sec, that means I would have spent 6 hours worth of bandwidth downloading the bloody op/ed 72 times. It's pointless to include the op/ed in every episode for a series this big.
|2003-12-05, 17:41
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Fushigi Mystery!! @_@
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Canada, eh?
Yes, but now the bandwith flows like water, so why do things like cutting OP/ED sequences? I think the fansubbers are doing a disservice to the show they claim to love so much, and I think that nothing of the original product should be changed if someone is doing a fansub of it.
Here's a link to their forums which shows just how pretentious these guys think they are. Sure they're doing the show, but these guys feel that they think they can make decisions about OP/ED/next ep previews for us. I think that should be left up to us.
They claim that they try to make their encodes so that they fit on CD's nicely. CDR's are cheap and DVD-R's and writers are getting cheaper by the day. Puhleeze. They don't feel One Piece's next episode previews are "unique" enough to be bothered to include them and they seem too overly concerned about the possiblity of unwanted spoilerage in next episode previews. That may be true in some cases and certain TV shows do do that, but that should be LEFT UP TO THE VIEWER to make that choice to watch them or not. Don't make these decisions for us, because it smacks of megalomania IMO. Plus their response to using stock OP/ED's -> go buy the R2 DVD's. Well if they had english subs I would, but they don't so fansubs are the only alternative if I want to understand it fully.
Yes I realize that I can't really complain as it's free and they do work on it, but I mean don't you think they would catch more flies with honey than vinegar???? Instead of acting all high and mighty.
I hope another R1 company licenses One Piece soon or another group picks it up and does it right.
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|2003-12-05, 19:52
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Location: Finland
Age: 32
They aren´t forcing you to watch it their way, so why all the fuss? I can understand why some people won´t like this, but personally, I don´t mind - I don´t have to wait until next week before I need to watch the next episode. Do they have the OP/ED separate from the episodes? That´d make it all fine and dandy for me ... irrelevant, as I´m not interested in this one, but ...
|2003-12-05, 20:02
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I noticed that K-F's source is actually from HK DVDs. Sometimes, to squeeze more episodes onto 1 DVD, HK DVDs do leave out previews. I know the Macross 7 done by the same company does not have previews. Maybe K-F don't have the preview to start out with.
|2003-12-05, 21:05
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Yeah the sources were hk dvds, but not for very long. They switched to strictly r2 dvds at some point, though when exactly i'm not sure. I do know that every release now is r2 and only r2 (which doesn't help a whole lot because it's episode 72... sorry >_<)
|2003-12-05, 21:24
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also known as K!
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Such a minor point to get angry about... Who really cares? If you're a big enough fan you can find the credits on the internet somewhere. http://www.toei.co.jp/onepiece/ is a good place to start.
If you are a 'voice actor fan', ie. able to read the Kanji names, then why are you bothering with the fansub?
Personally, I wouldn't care, or notice, if they chopped off the ED as well, since I stop the playback when it says 'to be continued'.
|2003-12-05, 22:52
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Join Date: Nov 2003
I have learned my lesson. One must never ask questions about how things are done or why things are done in a certain way. Fansub groups don't want to hear anything from anyone unless it's outright praise......... >_<;;;;;;;;
Maybe a mod should lock this thread. >_<;;;;;;;;;
|2003-12-06, 00:27
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Inactive Member
Join Date: Dec 2003
First off, if you wanted to ask us something Kid, it would have been better to do it on our own forums. Animesuki seems like a nice place to flame groups.
No one here has hit the real reason why we use a clean op/ed. K-F considers the one piece op and eds to be works of art. We think that the credits clutter them up...also have you noticed we dont put our own credits in the op either? Its totally creditless because we care about how it looks, no other reason. It's true that the creators deserve credit, but the whole reason an average person watches a fansub is because they dont know japanese. Besides, if you really care and can read them, you should be buying the r2 dvds. The reason we fansub is because we love one piece and want to share it with people, thats all.
P.S. - Omg I can't believe we're getting flamed by Kingranger! I'd call him the Killshok of tokusatsu, but that would too much of a compliment. I'm sure most of you haven't seen tv-nihon's subs, but they are by far the most ugly looking mistimed tacky typesetted questionably translated subs i have ever seen.
|2003-12-06, 00:56
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Cybertron
Age: 37
Wow, that was pretty offensive seeing as how I edit, typeset and do many other things for just about all the Tv-Nihon projects. I don't really see what you can base that claim off of, but maybe you should keep your opinions to yourself before you bash people's hard work.
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It could be another milestone in organic food's evolution from crunchy to commercial: Wal-Mart, the king of mass retailing, is promising to "drive down organic food prices" with a new line of organic food products. The new products will be at least 25 percent cheaper than organic food that's on Wal-Mart's shelves right now.
Yet we've heard this before. Back in 2006, Wal-Mart made a similar announcement, asking some of its big suppliers to deliver organic versions of popular food items like mac-and-cheese. A Wal-Mart executive said at the time that it hoped these organic products would cost only 10 percent more than the conventional alternative.
Wal-Mart has, in fact, become a big player in organic food, with some remarkable cost-cutting successes. At the new Wal-Mart just a few blocks from NPR's headquarters, I found some organic grape tomatoes on sale for exactly the same price as conventional ones. Organic "spring mix" salad was just 9 percent more expensive than the conventional package.
Outside the fresh produce section, though, organic products were hard to find, and those I did spy were significantly more expensive. Organic diced tomatoes were 44 percent higher. The premium for a half-gallon of organic milk was a whopping 85 percent.
Now Wal-Mart is bringing in a new company, WildOats, to deliver a whole range of additional organic products, from pasta sauce to cookies, and do it more cheaply.
I asked the CEO of WildOats, Tom Casey, how he plans to do it. His answer, in a nutshell: Bigger can be better.
The production and distribution of organic food is still highly fragmented, Casey says. Wal-Mart can change that, delivering organic products in through its "world-class distribution system" and giving manufacturers of, say, pasta sauce a chance to operate on a larger, more efficient scale.
Charles Benbrook, a long-time proponent of organic agriculture who's now with the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources at Washington State University, thinks that this plan is realistic. Most organic producers have to use other companies' processing facilities, which also handle conventional food, Benbrook wrote in an e-mail. "This requires them to shut down, clean out the lines, segregate both incoming and outgoing product, and this all costs money," writes Benbrook.
According to Benbrook, larger production — to supply larger customers — will allow organic food processors to run "100 percent organic all the time" and will cut costs by 20 to 30 percent. This has already happened with packaged salad greens, which is why consumers don't pay very much extra for those organic products.
Benbrook does have one warning: Large scale can't be achieved overnight. It takes at least three years for farmers to get their land certified as organic, for instance. "There will be hell to pay if Wal-Mart turns mostly to imports, and they know it."
If Wal-Mart sticks with this effort and creates an organic supply chain that's as efficient as the conventional one, the company could help answer an unresolved question about organic food: How much of the organic price tag is because of small-scale production, and how much is inherent in the rules that govern organic production, such as the prohibition on synthetic pesticides, and industrial fertilizer?
Benbrook thinks Wal-Mart's experiment will show that organic farmers, if given an honest chance to compete, will out-produce their conventional neighbors, and that organic prices will come down.
Others disagree. Todd J. Kluger, vice president of marketing for Lundberg Family Farms, told Rodale News in an interview that Wal-Mart's goal of producing food 25 percent more cheaply is "fantasy. There isn't much you can do to cut the cost of organic ingredients," Kluger said.
In the same interview, Mark Kastel, an organic activist who co-founded the Cornucopia Institute, suggested that Wal-Mart's cost-cutting drive could undermine the ethical values of organic farming. "One of the reasons people are willing to pay more is that they think they're supporting a different ethic, a different animal husbandry model, and that family farmers are being fairly compensated," Kastel says.
According to Kastel, organic buyers will shy away from the kind of large-scale supply chain that Wal-Mart and WildOats envision. "We want to know where our food comes from, how it's produced, and what the story behind the label is," he told Rodale News.
Tom Casey, CEO of WildOats, says that the company has not yet decided whether it will disclose where it is buying its food. (That's pretty typical for supermarket brands.) "We want to be respectful of our suppliers," he told The Salt.
It's WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Wade Goodwyn. Organic food has taken another step away from its crunchy alternative routes. Walmart, the king of mass-market retail, says it will sell even more organic food, and it promises to bring down the price tag as well. Now the question is will organic producers be able to keep up with demand? Joining me talk about this is NPR's food and agricultural correspondent Dan Charles. Dan, welcome to the show.
DAN CHARLES, BYLINE: Nice to be here.
GOODWYN: Dan, Walmart says it's going to sell organic food more cheaply. How's it going to do this?
CHARLES: Well, you know, Walmart already sells organic food. But this - they're trying to make a statement saying we're going to set up our own house brand. It's delivered by a separate company actually called Wild Oats. And they're saying we're going to organize this, and we're going to deliver organic food more cheaply. And it's a good question. How are they going to do this? I mean, I actually talked to the CEO of Wild Oats. And he said it's all about logistics. He said Walmart is the king of distribution, right.
And so if we organize the production and the processing and distribution of organic foods on a large scale, there's efficiencies to be had. This is actually kind of an experiment, a test. You know, how much of the extra costs that you pay when you buy organic food - how much of that is just the fragmented nature of the business? How much of it is the small-scale aspect? And how much of it is inherent in organic production?
GOODWYN: Well, there's no question that Walmart is kind of the king of logistics. But if you talk to some of their suppliers, they'll also complain that Walmart is the king of squeezing them and making them produce the product ever more cheaply at their own expense.
CHARLES: Right. So you could say this is a threat to some organic producers who are used to higher margins. On the other hand, I mean, the organic production is expanding, and if Walmart wants large quantities, they may have to outbid other producers. There is a limit right now on the amount of organic food for sale. They say they want to expand that, and there's no reason why they couldn't. There's lots of land out there. Right now, organic is actually a very small part of American food production, people say 5 percent or less. So there's no reason why Walmart couldn't expand organic production if they offered a good price. The question is can they do it cheaply?
GOODWYN: Part of this has to do with trust. Are people going to stop going to Whole Foods and go over to Walmart 'cause they can get the eggs $2 cheaper? I'm a little skeptical.
CHARLES: OK, so this gets to this question of what is organic really because organic has an actual legal definition. You know, it's set out by the National Organic Standards, laid down by the USDA. And it has to do with how organic food is produced - no pesticides, no industrial fertilizer, certain other rules like...
GOODWYN: Chickens can walk around.
CHARLES: Chickens can walk around, etc. And you can do that on a large scale, and you can do it for Walmart. But organic, also, for the consumer sometimes, is cultural image. People think small-scale, local, nonindustrial, non-Walmart, right?
GOODWYN: Correct.
CHARLES: So, you know, so you can see the organic label kind of splitting. You can get organic eggs for $3 a dozen. You can get organic eggs for $6 a dozen. And the companies that sell them for $6 a dozen say we are the true organic. We go beyond the strict requirements of these rules. Our milk comes from small, family farms. Our chickens have lots of pasture, not just, you know, a door in the side of the chicken house. And we'll tell you where we get our products. You know, we're more true to organic roots. And maybe they will get a certain segment of the market, and the $3 eggs will get another segment.
GOODWYN: NPR's food and agricultural correspondent Dan Charles. Dan, thanks.
CHARLES: Enjoyed it, Wade. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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The Slowness of Paradis 6
Over the past year or more I have heard and read so much about Paradis, the brainchild of French art director Thomas Lenthal, but for some reason or another I never got about to ordering a copy – it remained in the back of my mind until I stumbled across this copy a few weeks ago and could no longer resist. For whatever reason – maybe the amount of references I had read, I had a relatively defined image in my mind of what the volume would contain, but the contents were actually quite different than I initially anticipated.
Launched in 2006, the latest issue of Paradis is 400-pages thick and has been nearly two years in the making. This issue includes lengthy features from cultural heavy-weights such as Chuck Close, Cindy Sherman, Massimo Vignelli, Juergen Teller and Alain de Botton.
A shining gem in the issue is a piece on the furniture collection of Dennis Freedman, sprawling over 20 spreads and packed with a dense landscape of one-off furniture pieces and artwork. The photographs relate well to the contents of the whole Paradis issue — an assortment of mysteries and beauties, from famous to unknown.
The two features on Chuck Close and Cindy Sherman border on dry, but a lengthy interview with a personal hero of mine, Massimo Vignelli, (interviewed by my amazing wife here) is a goldmine.
Paradis is worth a read – and I will definitely revisit it in the future (hopefully it doesn't take 2 years for the next issue!). The features are the real drivers of the magazine, and there is lots to be said for curating such a high caliber team for a single issue. In a market awash with magazines overflowing with content, Paradis is a breath of fresh air due to its relative "slowness". Spending time with Paradis is more akin to meandering through a quiet museum than flicking through a periodical.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Two days after capturing the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) title in dramatic fashion, the MIT field hockey team received additional accolades at the league's postseason meeting on Tuesday. Kameron Klauber (Carlsbad, Calif.) was named the NEWMAC Athlete of the Year, following an outstanding senior campaign in which she led the team with 59 points and 21 assists. Cheryl Silva was selected as the league's Coach of the Year for the second time in three years and third time in her career.
MIT's historic season will continue on Wednesday, November 9 when it hosts Husson University in a first round NCAA tournament game. The game will begin at 4:00 p.m. on Jack Barry field. Ticket prices are $5 for adults and $3 for students and senior citizens. MIT students with an MIT ID will be admitted free. The game will also be webcast free of charge and is available at http://www.b2livetv.com/partner_members.asp?id=246.


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Pace'Lei Grace Lance was born Aug. 12, 2013, at 12:17 p.m. She weighed 6 pounds 11 ounces and was 19 inches long. Pace'Lei is the daughter of Angela and Blake Lance of Coahoma. Maternal grandparents aree Donna and David Pace of Big Spring. Maternal grandparents are Lonnie and Vernette Hill of Big Spring. Pace'Lei was welcomed home by big brother Dylan Lance.


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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
ARC Giveaway-- THE RAVEN BOYS
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Hello Friends,
Who wants to win an ARC of Maggie Stiefvater's The Raven Boys? Because I am giving one away!
|Comes out Sept. 18th
The Official Blurb:
Blue Sargent, the daughter of the town psychic in Henrietta, Virginia, has been told for as long as she can remember that if she ever kisses her true love, he will die. But she is too practical to believe in things like true love. Her policy is to stay away from the rich boys at the prestigious Aglionby Academy. The boys there — known as Raven Boys — can only mean trouble.
All you have to do to enter to win is follow my blog (so I can see your little avatar in my Google Friend Connect) and leave me a comment on this post letting me know you want to be entered (and your email address so I can let the winner know they won). = 1 entry.
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You are here: Root > Software > Development > Tools > DefystemView the dependency graph for this library
ASDlite is a light-weight version of ASDF, a popular build facility for Common Lisp.
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operation ::= keyword | operation-instance operation-type ::= keyword | type-symbol operation-designator ::= keyword | (keyword . plist) | type-symbol | operation-instance
Operations are passed to
perform and other operation-specific methods.
Operation designators can be used in the right-hand side of rules.
We encourage using simple keywords like
:compile or
:load. For these, ASDlite
defines corresponding methods with
eql specializers.
The plist allows you to pass key arguments to the operation methods. In the normal mode, ASDlite accepts only keyword-based forms.
If you feel these are not enough and need "full-fledged" ASDF operation classes, you can switch to the ASDF compatibility mode as follows:
:asdf-compat into
*features* before
compiling asdlite.lisp,
asdf:load-op and the like,
operation class etc.
In the compatibility mode, ASDlite accepts all the above forms of operations and designators.
An action is a pair of an operation and a component. Some actions modify the file system, whereas other actions modify the current image, and this implies a difference in how to interpret timestamps.
Dependencies (rules) between actions are stored in each (target) component and represented by the two alists of target operations to other (dependee) actions.
There are two kinds of rules.
rule ::= (target-op (dep-op {dependee}+)+) target-op ::= operation-type dep-op ::= operation-designator | :features dependee ::= name-or-path | (name-or-path . plist) name-or-path ::= component-name | vector | feature plist ::= ([:features feature] [:version minimum-version] {property value}*) feature ::= keyword | feature-expression
(:component "A" :caused-by ((:compile (:compile "B" "C") (:load "D")) (:load (:load "B" "C"))) :requires ((:compile (:load "B"))))
If B has changed, B.fasl needs to be recompiled. So the caused-by rule triggers recompiling of A.fasl irrespective of whether A has itself changed.
If A has changed, this neither imply compiling B nor C. But due to the requires rule loading B.fasl must be in the image precede compiling A.
A component is only allowed to depend on its siblings, i.e. the components
of the same module, no mater how we define dependencies:
:depends-on option,
operation-caused-by/-requires method.
make-sub-operation, this is not the case.
:do-first initarg is actually ignored by ASDF - its always set to
((compile-op (load-op ,@depends-on))))
remove-method in LW 4.4, system
redefinition intrusively signals about this.
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I have been posting a series of essays to coincide with "National Internet Safety Month" (Here are parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5). In today's installment, I want to discuss the idea of a voluntary code of conduct for online safety.
Yesterday, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) announced an impressive new campaign by its members to offer parents an unprecedented level of assistance in keeping their children safe online. The NCTA's new effort is called, "Cable Puts You in Control: PointSmart, ClickSafe.â€
The NCTA's new effort closely tracks a proposal outlined in a report that the Progress & Freedom Foundation published last August. In that report, I recommended that:
All companies doing business online... must show policymakers and the general public that they are serious about addressing [online safety] concerns. If companies and trade associations do not step up to the plate and meet this challenge soon--and in a collective fashion--calls will only grow louder for increased government regulation of online speech and activities. What is needed is a voluntary code of conduct for companies doing business online. This code of conduct, or set of industry "best practices,†would be based on a straight-forward set of principles and policies that could be universally adopted by the wide variety of operators mentioned above. These principles and policies, which could take the form of a pledge to parents and consumers, must also be workable throughout our new world of converged, cross-platform communications and media.
The cable industry has responded to this challenge in a major way with the announcement of its new "PointSmart, ClickSafe†initiative.
Under this industry-wide code of conduct, NCTA's member companies--which represent roughly 90 percent of all cable households nationwide--"pledge to help parents, families, customers and consumers create a better, safer online media environment and foster a better understanding and working knowledge of the digital media landscape.†Specifically, NCTA members have made a commitment to their customers in the form of the following pledge. Member companies promise that they will:
• Offer parental controls or filters to help families manage online content and help customers block content that they may determine is unsuitable for their use.
We are offering or will offer complimentary screening/blocking programs with our high-speed Internet service to empower families to make decisions about what forms of content are appropriate for their lives.
Where applicable, we are providing or will provide links or contact information for sites and services that offer additional assistance or types of controls.
• Offer various forms of education for parents, children, and other consumers.
We are providing or will provide clearly displayed links, buttons or phone numbers for parental/child assistance.
Where possible, we are offering or will offer "how-to†guides to help users enable online blocking and filtering technology.
We will distribute public service information and sponsor other parental/consumer education in efforts to promote awareness.
Where possible, we will provide programming and content focusing on Internet safety and literacy issues.
We are offering or will offer easily-accessible resources promoting a better understanding of digital media and will sponsor community- and school-based meetings to highlight Internet literacy.
We currently provide or will provide clearly worded acceptable-use policies that make clear what responsibilities rest with our customers.
• Participate through Cable in the Classroom in partnerships with school-based and community-based education groups to ensure that information on Internet safety and literacy is available to teachers, parents and caregivers.
• In conformity with all legal requirements, cooperate with law enforcement officials to help them prevent, police and prosecute potential criminal activity online. On our websites, we will offer links to organizations to enable users to report potential abuse.
These efforts are being coordinated online through a new website (www.pointsmartclicksafe.org) that contains interactive tips, manuals, and public service announcements to assist and educate parents and children. The new effort complements two other important efforts that the cable industry has operated for several years: "Control Your TV.org†and "Cable in the Classroom.†The "Control Your TV†initiative and website coordinates the cable industry's parental control efforts aimed at the video programming side of their business. And Cable in the Classroom is an impressive media literacy initiative that also provides broadband connectivity and educational programming to schools and libraries for classroom use.
The cable industry's new code of conduct illustrates how online operators can take parental controls and online child protection to the next level. The first order of business was creating parental control tools and making them widely available. After that, companies and trade associations need to concentrate on boosting awareness about those tools and making them even easier to use. That is what the NCTA is doing with its new initiative.
In addition, the focus on consumer education and media literacy that pervades the cable pledge is vitally important. This new "PointSmart, ClickSafe†initiative as well as the Cable in the Classroom project serve as models for what other companies or industries could do if they wanted to get more serious about promoting media literacy and online safety education.
Of course, it could be true that no matter how much the industry does to improve parental control tools or educate customers, some parents may never take advantage of those tools or services. This remains one of the great mysteries of the parental controls debate: Why is it that so many parents say they want more and better controls, but when they are made available many of them choose not to use them?
Some suggest that it's because the tools are still not simple enough to use while others suggest that they are not sophisticated enough! Because all families are different and bring different values and skill sets to this task, there may be some truth in both assertions. And there will always be a trade-off between convenience and complexity in the world of parental controls and online safety. Moreover, it is important to realize that surveys consistently show that many households choose to ignore technical controls or industry assistance altogether and instead use a mix of informal household media rules. So that may be another reason that some parents choose not to use the tools industry puts at their disposal.
Regardless, if for whatever reason, parents are not taking advantage of these tools and options, their inaction should not be used to justify government regulation as a surrogate for household / parental choice. Parents have been empowered. It is now their responsibility to take advantage of the tools and controls at their disposal to determine what is acceptable in their homes and in the lives of their children.
The cable industry should be applauded for its new voluntary code of online conduct and impressive efforts to empower and educate both parents and children about online safety.


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TV picks for March 18-24: 'Top of the Lake,' 'Phil Spector'
TV viewers get a brand new Norman Bates and his crazy mom in A&E's "Bates Motel" beginning March 18, but that's not all the new TV this week. Elisabeth Moss of "Mad Men" amazes in the Sundance Channel miniseries "Top of the Lake," as do Helen Mirren and Al Pacino in the HBO movie "Phil Spector." These TV picks aren't necessarily recommendations, just a big ol' FYI for you. Who knows, maybe you'll enjoy them--even if I didn't. Curt Wagner, RedEye's Show Patrol Want more? Discuss this article and others on Show Patrol's Facebook page.
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Motivational: Homeless Teen Aims For Medical School To Become A Dermatologist!
"A homeless teen in Brooklyn, NY hasn't let adversity kill his dream of becoming a doctor. He's excelled in his studies and has $15,000 in grant money to pay for his first year of college" - AP
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José Gervasio Artigas, (born June 19, 1764, probably Montevideo [now in Uruguay]—died September 23, 1850, Ibiray, near Asunción, Paraguay), soldier and revolutionary leader who is regarded as the father of Uruguayan independence, although that goal was not attained until several years after he had been forced into exile.
As a youth Artigas was a gaucho, or cowboy, in the interior of what is now Uruguay. In 1797 he entered the Spanish military forces, which then were mainly engaged in exterminating bandits. Several years later (1810) he offered his services to the Buenos Aires junta that was leading an independence movement against Spain. After winning a brilliant victory at Las Piedras, he besieged Spanish-held Montevideo for a time. In the face of superior Portuguese forces (called in from Brazil by the Spaniards), Artigas led a dramatic withdrawal of about 16,000 people from the region into Argentine territory.
Artigas then became the champion of federalism against the efforts of Buenos Aires to assert centralized control over the whole Río de la Plata region. In 1814 this struggle became a civil war. At first Artigas ruled over about 350,000 square miles (900,000 square km) of what is now Uruguay and central Argentina. His hold, however, was weakened by his insistence on decentralized government and was finally broken by a Portuguese invasion, which he resisted for three years. From 1820 he lived in exile in Paraguay; the independence of his native Uruguay was finally achieved on Aug. 27, 1828.


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Hi, User is running a sql script which has "create table as select " , "insert into table select", and update statements in one sql script.
The script was executed by user and I can see 1 user in OS but see 4 oracle users running the program each as p000,p001,p002,p003.
can anyone give little input why I can see 4 oracle users. Is that because the queries running in parallel ?? But if it is a script does not it execute one after the other.
User got a error later
ORA - 12801 error signalled in parallel query server p003.
ORA-01652 unable to extend temp segment by 1024 in tablepsace temp.
The temp tablespace is 8G. This is happening because of the process running in parallel.
where is the problem occuring? is that because of parallel queries. what is ultimate solution.
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Goggles Music Manager is a music collection manager and player that
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A FOOD SWAP, a coalition of schools for boys of color, and a socially conscious chocolate company all have something in common.
They're occupants of Space with a Soul, a new, collaborative office space for start-ups - but unlike other incubators, most of these start-ups are not tech companies. Instead, this incubator in Boston's Innovation District is designed to create a thriving community of start-up nonprofits, said founder Stas Gayshan, a Boston lawyer.
Gayshan, 29, said he's created the answer to the question: "How can people focus on their cause and not worry about the Internet bill or cleaning up their office?''
The money nonprofits spend to set themselves up comes at the expense of their missions, Gayshan realized. Space with a Soul gives start-up nonprofits "the organizational capacity of large corporations,'' he said.
It took some work to recruit tenants. "There were a few days last summer, not long after we opened, when we had more Space with a Soul staff and interns than residents in the center,'' Gayshan said. "It was a little bit terrifying.''
But now, there are 28 tenants, with expansion planned.
Calling Space with a Soul a "mission accelerator,'' Gayshan envisions a hub for synergy, with events aimed toward local nonprofit professionals. "The success of our residents is key to our growth, our stability, and our sustainability,'' Gayshan said. "We are fully invested in it, heart and soul.''


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The latest voting snafu out of Florida, a state that has so many such blunders and misdoings that one has to uses such phrases as "the latest one," is an automated phone system that told people Tuesday morning that the polls would close at 7 p.m. "tomorrow" -- i.e. Wednesday. Bottom line: More than 12,000 voters were essentially told that election day was tomorrow.
It seems an honest enough, if pretty dumb, mistake. Calls went out Monday to many voters, making the "tomorrow" correct. But without officials realizing it, thousands more calls were held in a queue and went out Tuesday morning. The mistake was discovered and a second call went out later in the morning, but residents complained to the Tampa Bay Tribune that local election officials didn't make it easy to report the error.
Of course, since officials don't really know when people will be hearing messages -- many Floridians aren't even answering the phone because, as swing-state voters, they have been inundated with political junk calls -- wouldn't it have made more sense in the first place to say "at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, November 6"?
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The Schneider 6.6x6.6" Graduated Coral 1/4 Glass Filter is considered to be both a color-correction and color-effects filter. Schneider Coral filters are used to warm cool lighting situations such as overcast days and scenes in open shade.
Different strengths of Schneider Coral filters can be used during filming to achieve the same degree of apparent warmth under different light conditions. This makes them particularly useful for maintaining a consistent color balance throughout an entire day of shooting, or to create a sunset or dawn effect during the day.
Schneider Coral filters can be used to under-correct a scene in order to create an excessively blue look for added drama, and can also be used as warming filters to create other dramatic effects. Cinematographers who own a complete set of Schneider Coral filters have the ability to control just about any outdoor lighting situation.
With graduated filters, often it is necessary or desirable to balance the light intensity in one part of a scene with another. This is especially true in situations where you don't have total light control, as in bright contrasty landscapes. Schneider Graduated Color filters are part clear and part color. They are designed to be used in professional matte boxes, so that they are readily positioned at the exact angle required to create desired effects.
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2011 Season
Voted CSUN's Red Cape Award ... Played in 23 games with 202 saves (9.85 spg, #3 in the Big West Conference) ... Tallied ten or more saves in nine games including a season-high 21 saves against Indiana (1/22/11) ... Her 202 saves this year are seventh-best for a single season in school history, and fifth-best in career history ... Named Big West Water Polo Tri-Player of the Week for her 17 saves in CSUN's 8-7 victory over UC Santa Barbara (4/9/11).
Arizona State
Played two seasons as a goalkeeper at Arizona State ... Helped lead the Sun Devils to national rankings of eighth in 2009 and eleventh in 2010 ... In 2010, Dana started 18 games where she collected 139 saves and a 6.04 saves per game average, ninth-best for a single season in ASU history ... Her 5.22 goals against average was second-best in ASU history ... Collected ten or more saves in six games in 2010 ... That included a season-high 14 saves against Cal State Bakersfield, 12 against seventh-ranked Michigan, eleven against #13 Cal State Northridge and eighth-ranked San Jose State, and ten each in contests against third-ranked California #12 Indiana ... In two seasons at Arizona State, Dana collected 264 saves in 43 games ... Gained American Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) All-Academic honors ... Was also a member of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) All-Academic team.
High School
A 2006 graduate of Rangitoto College in Auckland, New Zealand where she was a team captain in water polo ... Gained international experience as a member of the New Zealand Senior National team ... During the summer of 2009, Dana represented New Zealand at the FINA World Championship in Rome, Italy ... Won the Goalie Award in 2004 as part of the New Zealand U-16 National team and won her team's Most Promising Award in 2006 and 2007.
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NYU (US) — Researchers say cavefish, having lost their pigmentation and sight from living in complete darkness, are an example of convergent evolution.
Blind Mexican cavefish (Astyanax mexicanus) have not only lost their sight, but have adapted to perpetual darkness by also losing their pigment (albinism) and having altered sleep patterns.
Research led by New York University biologists shows that the cavefish are an example of convergent evolution, with several populations repeatedly, and independently, losing their sight and pigmentation.
The blind cavefish and the surface dwelling Mexican tetra, despite appearances, are the same species and can interbreed. The cavefish are simply a variant of the Mexican tetra, albeit ones adapted to living in complete darkness.
A team of researchers from Portugal, the United States, and Mexico studied the DNA from 11 populations of cavefish (from three geographic regions) and 10 populations of their surface-dwelling cousins to help understand the evolutionary origin of the physical differences between them.
While results from the genotyping showed that the surface populations were genetically very similar, the story for the cave populations was very different. The cave forms had a much lower genetic diversity, probably as a result of limited space and food.
Not surprisingly, the cave populations with the most influx from the surface had the highest diversity. In fact, there seemed to be a great deal of migration in both directions, say the researchers, whose findings are published in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology.
Historically, people thought that at least two groups of fish lived in the rivers of Sierra de El Abra, Mexico. One group originally colonized the caves, but became extinct on the surface. A different population then restocked the rivers and also invaded the caves.
Richard Borowsky, from the cave biology group at NYU and one of the paper's co-authors, explains, "We were fortunate in being able to use A. mexicanus as a kind of 'natural' experiment where nature has already provided the crosses and isolation events between populations for us.
"Our genotyping results have provided evidence that the cave variant had at least five separate evolutionary origins from these two ancestral stocks."
Martina Bradic, an NYU postdoctoral fellow who led the research, conducted the study as part of her graduate work.
"Despite interbreeding and gene flow from the surface populations, the eyeless 'cave phenotype' has been maintained in the caves," she says. "This indicates that there must be strong selection pressure against eyes in the cave environment.
"Whatever the advantage of the eyeless condition, it may explain why different populations of A. mexicanus cave fish have independently evolved the same eyeless condition, a striking example of convergent evolution."
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I know this topic has been touched upon, but I just wanted to get a few opinions. I currently have a 18-14-10 quiver on the way (I've been waiting on it for about a month now)...and I'm starting to get cold feet about the sizes. I read ryansurf1's post about changing up sizes and I'm thinking the same may happen with me.
I weigh about 82kg (~180lbs) and will ride a 130 board. The winds here are generally pretty light, but I'd like to be equipped from about 10 mph or so to at least 25 or 30 mph. I think the 21m will suit me better for the light winds...but I'm just wondering if there is good overlap between the 21 and the 16. Is the 16 a good all-around kite for say 15-22 mph (assuming I can fly the 21 to up to 15 mph). Or would I be better off with the 18-14 combo. I will be likely be using the two biggest kites 95% of the time.
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With just a couple weeks to prepare following surgeries that kept him on the couch for months over the summer, Santa Cruz resident Erik Edmonds — a paraplegic who competes in a special "running" wheelchair — finished the Santa Barbara International Marathon in 23rd place overall on Saturday.
Edmonds won the wheelchair division as the only entrant for the second straight year. He crossed the finish line after 26.2 miles in 2 hours, 57 minutes, 40.7 seconds — just a few minutes off his 2011 time of 2:53:21.5.
Edmonds, 32, lost the ability to walk when his spinal cord was damaged in a single-car accident in 2001 and is paralyzed from his upper-middle back down. He continues to suffer from neuropathic pain, which worsens when he is sedentary and makes him feel as though the left side of his body from his hip down is on fire.
In part in an effort to combat that pain and in part because of his competitive nature and drive, Edmonds has been competing in marathon and triathlon the past couple years and is itching to get back in the water for triathlon.
"I had 2 more ankle surgeries starting in June that kept me on my couch for almost 4 months. It really sucked," Edmonds wrote in an email. "It looks like the surgeries went OK but I am still unable to go in the water. So in the mean time I am cycling and running, waiting for the green light to get back in the ocean."
Abraham Kogo of Kenya won the marathon in 2:23:09.7.


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Here's on of the reasons I don't have a ot of time to do comics around here these days:
LEGO Star Wars: Save the Galaxy is a book from Scholastic that I illustrated last year. It's kind of a goofy comic retelling of the movie. It was both fun and a nightmare to work on (ask me about it if you ever see me in person!). It should be in the Children's area of most book stores and it's at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Lego-Star-Wars-Save-Galaxy/dp/0545301017/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1296612600&sr=8-1. I'll admit, $10 for 12 pages is kind of a hefty price (for some weird reason, it's a board book), but this might be your only chance to get LEGO Star Wars comics by in print! (Except I did have a couple illustration in some of last year's sets!)


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Though we profess to hate it, lying is common, useful and pretty much universal. It is one of the most durable threads in our social fabric and an important bulwark of our self-esteem. We start lying by the age of 4 and we do it at least several times a day, researchers have found. And we get better with practice.
In short, whatever you think about Lance Armstrong's admission this week that he took performance-enhancing drugs to fuel his illustrious cycling career, the lies he told may be no more persistent or outsized than yours, according to psychologists and others who study deception. They were just more public. And the stakes were bigger.
"People do it because it works," said Robert Feldman, dean of social and behavioral sciences at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and a leading researcher on the psychology of lying. "We get away with lies all the time. Usually they're minor: 'I love your tie.' 'You did a great job.' But in some cases they're bigger, and in Armstrong's case, he was pretty confident he could get away with it."
It's not easy to lie. Psychologists and neuroscientists have found that — initially, at least — deceit requires mental exertion for most of us. The effort to reconcile a lie with the truth — or with our notions of ourselves as good people — takes up so much brainpower that as we do it, we may actually forget to perform such effortless acts as blinking.


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Worcester County's own Dianne Benson Davis played a major role in bringing eagles back to Massachusetts. Her dramatic story in "Eagle One" is a must read. Though her book is mostly about Quabbin, eagles and the heretofore untold details of their restoration, it is also the inspiring tale of an amazing woman who persevered through daunting challenges to achieve happiness and success in both her personal and professional life.
The book is full of surprises, including little-known facts like stale coke can help a sick baby eagle. But besides the copious gems that might help a veterinarian or a sportsman wanting to know the secrets of Quabbin, it surprisingly provides many humble, bravely honest sprinklings of self-doubt, personal weaknesses and mistakes. There's zero hubris here. She exposes deep, personal thoughts, feelings and fears that make us readers feel like friends and confidants. And so "Eagle One" is as much the chronicling of a personal odyssey — professionally and emotionally — as it is a historically important document.
The author is the wife of nationally respected Fisheries & Wildlife district manager Bill Davis. A biologist and writer, Davis was with the eagle project from the beginning, even banging in the first nails into the hacking tower. Their marriage was forged — if not in heaven — in an eagle's nest, for it was during this pioneering endeavor that they met and formed the bonds which would much later result in a happily-ever-after marriage of two sweet friends.
The perfect mate for her, Davis never had a problem with Dianne bringing her work home — even if that meant a bald eagle, black bear cub, peregrine falcon, great horned owl or baby river otter that needed extra care. Their improbable romance and enviable life together now are part of the good-feeling aspect of this tale's conclusion, which is inspirational on several levels.
Dianne clearly loved wildlife from early childhood, having been afforded at impressionable times many natural experiences that contributed to making her one of our country's eagle authorities. Her mother deserves much credit. Her home rules allowed Dianne at age 8 to catch and bring home bullfrogs, orphan squirrels and even snakes. She recalls, "Mom was afraid of snakes, but she never let me know. She always seemed proud of my ability to bring home yet another animal because she understood how happy it made me." So many of us who love wildlife today, myself included, had sympathetic mothers who helped immerse us in nature. Their importance in the development of their children's positive attitudes toward nature can't be overstated.
Her parents further facilitated her growth in nature by dropping her off on weekends to live and work on a dairy farm in Grafton. There are books in brooks and sermons in stones — and apparently utter profoundness under utters. From hands-on experience, Dianne learned much that's not found in any book. She would share her hard-earned findings in later years to thousands, including veterinary students whom she mentored at Tufts Wildlife Clinic.
I remember the late Roger Tory Peterson, the pioneering bird field guide author and artist, once sharing with me that it was his seventh-grade teacher who got him interested in birds. Dianne similarly credits a special junior high teacher who went out of her way to help her, as she admittedly was doing poorly in school.
Dianne was actually held back in fourth grade. That perceptive, caring teacher probed to find an interest to exploit. Dianne told her she liked falcons, so the two went to the library together and found Jean Craighead George's book "The Summer of the Falcon," the story of a girl Dianne's age who raised a young falcon. Dianne remembers the girl in the book "had to decide whether to act like a young lady — or to go outdoors and be with her falcon." Although no one would ever question Dianne's manners, we know that in her life, she chose the latter far less traveled road.
Her journey to greatness had stops at Burncoat High School, where she read Thoreau and Emerson, reveling in the thoughts in Walden and "Self-Reliance," being assured in them that it's OK to want to be alone sometime and rely on oneself to explore, learn and understand life.
She volunteered at the Science Center, where she would gain so much experience and skill that she would one day be hired as the zoo keeper. Her responsibilities included polar bears, mountain lions, wolves and many other creatures that had captivated her childhood imagination. She would also become a falconer — in fact the only lady falconer in Massachusetts at the time. Her relationship with a special red-tailed hawk named Habiba, which means sweetheart in Arabic, is worthy of a book itself. What becomes so obvious in "Eagle One" is that all of her invaluable experiences accumulated to massive proportions, which she would eventually share in various forms with thousands of others to their great benefit.
That she achieved greatness and national respect without a college degree is surprising — even to her. Though she was accepted to college, she declined. She was locked into working with her cherished animals at the Science Center, getting married and having a baby. She found herself in a demanding position that necessitated long postponing earning her degree. Frustratingly, many advancement possibilities were all along the way taken by applicants with degrees but far less experience and skill. That she finally did get her degree is a celebratory part of her wonderful story.
Dianne credits Jack Swedberg, the true godfather of the eagle restoration program, with giving her the big chance that changed her life. He invited her to participate because he recognized her amazing skills with wildlife rehabilitation and raptors. Swedberg persuaded her to leave the civilized world for a summer alone in the Quabbin wilderness raising eight eagle chicks on the remote Prescott Peninsula.
That work in a primitive tent-camper with no modern amenities, 8 miles down a dirt road with numerous locked gates, took her into a distant world with a responsibility of national importance. She had to lose her fears and to sleep alone with the calls of barred owls, loons and coyotes. She had to learn how to start, run and maintain a Boston whaler, net fish to feed the eagles and survive with neither amenities nor human contact for long periods of time. She admits it took her a while before she could land the boat without crashing into the dock. But her life was used to bumps — and working hard enough to eventually get everything smooth — even if it took an inordinate amount of time to do it.
Dianne likes to say, "It only took 28 years to write it!" That's about the same time coincidentally that it took Charles Darwin to write "On the Origin of Species," so we won't fault her for that. But friends knowing the wealth of her knowledge had prompted her to write it many years back. If you read "Eagle One," you'll emerge a lot smarter — and be glad she listened to them.
To purchase "Eagle One," contact Amazon or Chandler House Press. This local treasure should be in every serious Massachusetts naturalist's library.
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Trout were stocked this week in South Pond, Brookfield; Mossy Pond, Clinton; Comet Pond, Hubbardston; Fort Pond, Lancaster; Conners Pond, Petersham; Long Pond, Rutland; Big Alum Pond, Sturbridge; Webster Lake, Webster; and Lake Quinsigamond, Worcester.
◼This week — Male shad normally begin returning to the Connecticut River. Limits for 2014 are reduced to three fish per day.
◼Saturday & Sunday — Sportsman's Show. VFW Post 697, 95 Essex St., Whitman. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday; 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday.
◼Sunday — 3-D Safari League. Valley Springs. 7 a.m.-noon.
◼Monday — Trout Unlimited meeting. Drifting the Deerfield. Speaker: Jonathan Bunker, Owner/head guide of Square-Tail Anglers Guides. Auburn Sportsman's Club, 50 Elm St., Auburn. 6:30-9 p.m. Free pizza.
Tuesday —Stellwagen Bank Charter Boat Association meets every second Tuesday of the month, 7 p.m., Marshfield Tavern, Marshfield. Info: www.stellwagencharterboats.com.
◼April 26 — Central Mass. Trout Unlimited Fundraising Banquet. Chester Tuttle Post, 88 Bancroft St., Auburn. 6:30 p.m. $25. Tickets at the Lower Forty, 134 Madison St., Worcester.
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Harris: Indy 500 Adapts To Times
Tradition can be a wonderful thing. But not always.
It has taken officials at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway a long time to figure out that less can be more.
True, for many of the 93 years that the Indianapolis 500 has been run, the month-long schedule every year in May was the right way to go – a celebration of the speedway and the biggest race in the world.
But, in recent years, the 500 has been only a shadow of its former self. Until two years ago, the NASCAR race – a relatively recent addition at the famed Brickyard – outdrew the 500.
As the Memorial Day weekend race lost some of its luster and a chunk of what used to be crowds of 100,000 on pole day and more than 400,000 on race day, the elongated schedule continued.
It's been decades now since it was the "Month of May at Indy,'' with cars on the track every day for virtually the entire month. Changes have been made, traditions have been altered, but the schedule still kept teams and officials at the speedway for three long weeks almost every spring.
In 1970, when I first came to the sprawling track on the west side of Indianapolis, every day in May was like a holiday. School buses would line the infield parking lots, with entire classes of kiddies walking the grounds, watching the cars roar past and eating picnic lunches or buying elephant ears and corn dogs from the concession stands.
Guys in t-shirts and shorts would rub elbows in the vast grandstands with men in suits, playing hooky from their jobs to enjoy the atmosphere of speed and the smell of methanol.
It seemed as if there was a special dinner or gala ball every night throughout the month as the entire community took part in the 500 celebration. There was a very visible civic pride in the event.
In the '90s, that scene began to change dramatically. People found other things to keep them busy in May. The kids mostly stayed in class and the businessmen kept their noses to the grindstone. The speedway grandstands stayed mostly empty until race day and there were fewer and fewer special events in the evenings.
But speedway officials dragged their feet. They shortened the time the cars were on track each day, closed the oval early in the week and changed the qualifying procedure, but everyone was still obligated to stick around for three full weeks.
Traditionalists were stunned when the speedway did shorten the schedule to two weeks from 1998 through 2000, but tradition returned when the track and the Indy Racing League decided that schedule was too limited.
Now, thanks to cost-cutting measures necessitated by the ongoing economic crunch, that two-week schedule is back – and welcome.
It was announced late last year that the speedway will open May 15 for rookie practice – a week later than usual. IndyCar teams will practice each day from May 17-21, with qualifying for the 33-car field limited to two days, May 22-23.
The 94th Indy 500 is scheduled May 30.
"I commend Indianapolis Motor Speedway and IndyCar Series officials for this change to the month of May schedule," said Roger Penske, whose team has won a record 15 500s. "It will reduce costs for teams on several fronts and provide continuous activity as we build momentum from opening day through race weekend.''
While the change will be good for the big teams, like Penske's, it will be even better for the smaller teams with considerably smaller budgets.
The only remaining question is how cutting qualifying from four days to two will work? The new format will not be announced until after the first of the year, but Brian Barnhart, president of competition and racing operations for the IRL, is optimistic that it will enhance the show.
"By setting the 33-car grid on one weekend, there's no room for mistakes by the teams and drivers,'' he said. "The pressure will be on to deliver over the 10 miles, regardless of the weather and track conditions.''
And, of course, Barnhart's confidence is buoyed by the fact that Monday and Tuesday of race week – usually inactive days on track – are there as rain days, just in case.
For years, I've heard people ask, "If they can run every other race in two or three days, why do you need three weeks to run Indy?''
Well, the resurgent Indy 500 still deserves more than three days. And it appears this is a schedule whose time has come.
It will be better for the teams, drivers, officials and, best of all, the fans who attend practice and qualifying and likely get to see action on track all day long.
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Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain
St. Nicodemus was born Nicholas Kallivourtzis c. 1749 in Naxos, Greece. In 1775 he became a monk of Dionysiou on Mount Athos. In 1777, Saint Makarios of Corinth visited him and gave him three texts to edit and revise: the Philokalia, a defining work on monastic spirituality, On Frequent Holy Communion and the Evergetinos. He also wrote original works such as Lives of the Saints.
He was, however, influenced significantly by Roman Catholic spirituality, canon law, and theology. He translated and edited The Spiritual Combat (1589) by Lorenzo Scupoli, a Catholic priest of Venice, renaming it Unseen Warfare, and the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits. He made use of Roman canon law in The Rudder, and held to the Anselmian view of the Atonment. There is an extant letter by St Nicodemus to Bishop Paisios of Stagai requesting an indulgence, and promising financial payment for it. His manual on sacramental confession, the Exomologetarion is a reworking of books by Paulo Segneri, a Roman Catholic author. The influence of Western pietistic moralism is perhaps seen best in his Chrestoethia of Christians (1803), in which he condemns musical instruments, dancing, (non-liturgical) singing, the telling of jokes, etc., and tells Christians that such conduct will lead not only to their own punishment, but to the death of their unborn children.
St. Nicodemus reposed in the Lord in 1809 and was glorified by the Orthodox Church in 1955. He is a local saint of the Metropolis of Paronaxia and the Holy Mountain. His feast day is celebrated on July 14.
- Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain (Roman Catholic)
- Modern Orthodox Saints (Vol. 3) by Constantine Cavarnos. Published by the Institute for Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies, 1994 (ISBN 0914744410)
- Christos Yannaras, Orthodoxy and the West: Hellenic Self-Identity in the Modern Age. Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2007. (ISBN 978-1885652812)
- Kallistos Ware, "St Nikidimos and the Philokalia" in D. Conomos and G. Speake, Mount Athos the Sacred Bridge: The Spirituality of the Holy Mountain. Peter Lang, 2005. (ISBN 978-0820468808)
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by Michaela Morris/NEMS Daily Journal
TUPELO – The City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved redrawn Tupelo ward lines.
The city's next step will be updating voters on how the changes may affect them.
The new lines reflect shifts in Tupelo's population based on 2010 Census and the results of the 16-square mile annexation finalized in September.
The redistricting plan was designed to bring the divide the city's population evenly between the seven wards, retain minority majorities in wards 4 and 7 and avoid moving sitting council members out of their ward. There were some shifts in ward boundary lines, but for the most part, each ward retains the core of its constituency.
The plan now goes to the U.S. Justice Department for its review under the federal Voting Rights Act.
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New App Allows For HIPAA-Compliant Group Texting by Clinicians
Anne Zieger is veteran healthcare consultant and analyst with 20 years of industry experience. Zieger formerly served as editor-in-chief of FierceHealthcare.com and her commentaries have appeared in dozens of international business publications, including Forbes, Business Week and Information Week. She has also contributed content to hundreds of healthcare and health IT organizations, including several Fortune 500 companies. Contact her at @ziegerhealth on Twitter or visit her site at Zieger Healthcare.
John wrote previously on EMR and HIPAA about the need for HIPAA Secure Texting and a company he's advising that does secure text messaging called docBeat.
Well, another new app called Medigram is being tested which will allow clinicians to send HIPAA-compliant text messages within a defined group. The app is currently in closed beta with docs at Stanford Hospital, Lucille Packard Children's Hospital and the Palo Alto VA Hospital, according to iMedicalApps.com.
According to the company, Medigram meets not only HIPAA requirements but also privacy/security provisions in Subtitle D of HITECH. It does so, in part, by using SSL connections between mobile apps and its servers, as well as NIST-approved 256-bit AES encryption to secure chat data.
Secure texting certainly seems like a good idea, given how mobile-friendly this generation of clinicians has turned out to be. And it's hard to argue Medigram's core pitch, which is that texting is far more interactive than a pager. Given that a surprisingly large number of doctors still use pagers, improving on the model seems like a good thing.
My theory is that the app, if otherwise usable and bug-free, will be a big hit during its beta. If so, I expect to see HIPAA-compliant instant messaging turn up next. Smaller, presumably agile companies specializing in B2B messaging — such as HipChat, Trumpia and 24im — are logical candidates to develop such a utility. (This article outlines several other enterprise IM firms, just in case you want to dig deeper.)
Of course, there's also Google and Microsoft, both of which have large IM bases. Perhaps creating a secure version of an existing product (such as Messenger) will be less of a marketing challenge than say, HealthVault.
Regardless, I'll be quite interested to find out how the beta turns out — I'll keep you posted. Meanwhile, here's a video in which Medigram describes its product.


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Johnny Depp Makes Special CinemaCon Appearance to Promote 'Transcendence'!
Johnny Depp hits the stage for a special appearance during the Warner Bros. Pictures Presentation held during 2014 CinemaCon at Caesars Palace on Thursday (March 27) in Las Vegas.
The 50-year-old actor was in attendance at the event to promote his new movie Transcendence to an audience full of movie theater owners. He was joined by his co-star Morgan Freeman and their director Wally Pfister.
The movie, in theaters April 17, is about a terminally ill scientist (Depp) who downloads his mind into a computer. This grants him power beyond his wildest dreams, and soon he becomes unstoppable.
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I turned 49 last month. I started practicing Karate about 33 years ago. It seems like a long time ago, but also like only yesterday.
I began practicing at the Adult Recreation Center at Hickam Air Force Base, here in Hawaii. I lived nearby, and would walk to the dojo or ride my bike.
I learned about the class from a friend in Boy Scouts. His name was Chris Crisler. I was already practicing Judo, but one day he told me that I should come and watch this class. I think he was already in it.
The class was taught by Florentino S. Pancipanci, and his senior students. The emphasis was on very practical self-defense. They also rolled in the class (on the cement floor) and did throws and take downs. Because of my Judo experience (I had also trained for about three or four years in Japan), I was drawn to the training.
So I joined the class. I was very active in Boy Scouts, but as the years went by, Karate became a bigger and bigger part of my life. By the time I graduated from high school, I was out of scouting and teaching Karate part-time. I actually taught through my undergraduate years at the University of Hawaii and my master's program at Northwestern (in Evanston, Illinois).
I was engaged in high school. My fiance and later wife, Nayna, would come to class to collect the tuition. I remember that at one time, I had over 50 students at Hickam. This was when I was still in high school. Looking back, I was too young and inexperienced to teach. But such is life.
So after 33 years, how has my Karate training changed? I used to train mostly with my arms and legs. Now I train more with my stomach (hara)!
And after 33 years, I think that I am beginning to actually scratch the surface of Karate. Maybe I am starting to get the first syllable. "Ka."
I don't know what happened to my friend Chris, from Boy Scouts. But I am very grateful to him for taking me to my first Karate class. Sometimes a small act can set things in motion that last a lifetime.
Charles C. Goodin
How I Started Karate
I turned 49 last month. I started practicing Karate about 33 years ago. It seems like a long time ago, but also like only yesterday.
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– We've noted how Jack Swagger has missed a string of recent WWE live events and TV tapings, including this week's RAW and SmackDown.
WWE has removed Swagger from all events until the June 29th live event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It's worth noting that Swagger's next court date for his DUI is on June 25th, just a few days before he's scheduled to return.
On Tuesday, Swagger posted a photo of his hand with stitches:
"This what happens when you say what THEY don't want you 2say…#conspiracy"


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The Worcester Police Department's vice squad arrested 19 people Saturday during a prostitution sting, 16 of them on prostitution-related charges and three for alleged drug trafficking and conspiracy.
The sting involved posting an Internet ad for an escort service — police linked it to an apartment where officers were working — and male and female officers posing as decoys in the Main South area.
Ten people were arrested after they allegedly answered the Internet ad, went to the apartment, made contact with an undercover officer and agreed to a fee for a sexual encounter. They were Barry Ansin, 45, of 33 Bonnydale Road, Leominster; Javier Trajo, 35, of 113 Illinois St.; Paul Keating, 70, of 60 Industrial Row, Gardner; Guillermo Rivera, 50, of 45 Elm Road, Devens; Daniel Lumb, 22, of 71 Mechanic St., Spencer; James Kane, 45, of 18 Taos Drive, Danielson, Conn.; Tiffany Luna, 23, of 80 Curtis St., Providence; Jessica Paulino, 22, of 47 Regent Ave., Providence; Alisha Giglio, 24, of 74 Baldwin St., Pawtucket, R.I.; and Gina Miranda, 20, of 200 Whitter Ave., Providence.
Six were arrested as a result of their interaction with the decoy officers in Main South and charged with sexual conduct for a fee: Danielle Hamalainen, 29, of 101 Endicott St.; Jamie Francis, 34, of 24 Pocasset Ave.; Kerri Sheehan, 39, of 122 Barnard Road; Yuhong Jiao, 46, of 30 Orchard Park Drive, Reading; Crystal Polydores, 32, of 17 May St.; and Margarita Aponte, 29, of 54 Gifford Drive.
Police said vice officers working the prostitution sting saw a silver Ford Taurus in traffic and recognized the driver as Javier Crespo, 27, of 191 St. Nicholas Ave. The officers, working under cover, followed the car because they knew of Mr. Crespo because of previous drug investigations, police said.
The officers said they saw the Taurus enter the parking lot of 7 Laurel St. They saw a woman, whom they identified as Roselia Delrosario, leave the Laurel Street apartment and enter the rear seat of Crespo's vehicle. The Taurus drove out of the parking lot, traveled a short distance and stopped to pick up a man on Gage Street. The vehicle drove on for a short distance and dropped off the male passenger, police said. The officers said they then saw Mr. Crespo get out of the car, place a box in the trunk; get back into the vehicle and drive off.
Police said the officers stopped the car on Laurel Street and discovered heroin weighing about 180 grams in the box in the trunk.
Mr. Crespo was charged with trafficking in heroin and conspiracy to violate controlled substance laws. One passenger, Megan Fridley, 25, of 191 St. Nicholas Ave., was charged with conspiracy to violate controlled substance laws. The other passenger, Ms. Delrosario, 34, of 7 Laurel St., was charged with trafficking in heroin and conspiracy to violate controlled substance laws.


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Please read the message below from Mayor Dustin regarding the use of City issued sandbags:
I was out inspecting the work our public works team has been doing on the river. Thank you for supporting them and letting them do their jobs.
I was disappointed, however, to see city sandbags being used on private property to protect landscaping. City sandbags are available to protect public facilities and houses. When they are used to protect lawns and patios and fences, they are not available to protect houses. Please use the minimum necessary to protect your house.
- Mayor Dustin
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The mission of Nibley City is to make life better for its citizens by fostering community cooperation so residents, businesses, and government work together to develop the City in harmony with its natural environment, historical surroundings, and in accordance with the values and vision of the community as set forth in the General Plan. The City will provide fiscally sound municipal services for a safe, attractive, creative, and viable community.