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SHOPPERS WERE in abundance and traffic was heavy this morning at the Ohio Valley Mall and Ohio Valley Plaza, even though many stores at the giant shopping centers opened Thanksgiving night.
Gift-seekers were making the rush to get all the early-bird door buster bargains, and there were a lot of them. This year's shopping season got off to an even earlier start than in previous years with some stores opening as early as 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving and some even before that.
George Diab, Ohio Valley Mall manager, was elated at the throng of shoppers.
"From every indication, it looks like we are going to have a successful Christmas shopping season. Our stores are offering outstanding bargains and our shopping hours during the holiday season have been extended," he said.
Candi Noble Greathouse said the disrtribution of the 500 Christmas tote bags on Thurday night was also a big success. "Theywere gone in a hurry," she said.
Among the early birds this morning was Amanda Murray of Brookside. She was heading for Toys 'R Us to purchase toys for some family members.
Shopping at KMart were Charla Macy of Betheda and her daugher Christine, from Glen Dale. "I used to come just to see the crowd, but now that I have grandchildren, I go shopping," Charla said. Kmart opened Thursday at 8 p.m. and closed at 4 pm. It reopened from 8 p.m Thurday until 3 a.m toay and reopened again at5 a.m. today.
Macy's offered Black Friday specials from midnight to 1 p.m. and on Saturdayfrom 7 a..m. to 1 p.m.
Jaime Bruggeman of near Temperanceville, was at the mall and planned to buy gifts for her husband and two children. He friends, Kelly Burkart, Mandy Burkhart and Stacey Wells, all from Barnesville, had their shopping lists and newspaper ads with them and were ready to dent the crowds. They said the plan to shop at several stores at the mall and then head to the plaza.
Sears at the Mall was also a behive of activity early today. The store opened for business on Thanksgiving evening at 6 p.m. Customers were observed leaving the store with shopping bags ,loaded with items.
It was the same at Elder-Beerman which opened at midnight today, and advertised door busters until 1 p,m. Rita Motti and her husband, Dan, from Dearborn, Mich., were among the early birds buying gifts for family members before heading home on Sunday.They spent the Thanksgiving holiday with their family in Bridgeport. "This is the second time we have shopped here," Rita said. "It is a lot of fun, and the people are very friendly."
Chris and Aleysa Hendershot of Barnesville, and Aleysa's sister, Heather Hanshaw from Marietta, stopped briefly at the mall before heading for Washington, Pa. "We plan to do some shopping there, then stop at the Highlands and come back to the mall and plaza. It is going to be a fun-filled day for us," Aleysa said.
Also plannng to spend the entire day shopping were Cynthia McGee, Peggy and Astin Skinner and Kylie McGee, all of Barnesville and Micki Vernon of Maryland. "We always make shopping a priority on this day," Cynthia said. "There are many bargains and we intend to take advantage of them."
Rural King on the perimeter of the Ohio Valley Mall, also welcomed shoppers Thursday and today with loads of bargains. They also have bargains advertised for Saturday and Sunday. The big item on Thurday were generators, and the supply was quickly wiped out.
Also doing a brisk business on Thurday and today were Big Lots and Dollar General in the shopping plaza west of Bridgeport, and Family Dollar in Brookside.
Many stores at the mall and plaza have bargains advertised for today, Saturday and Sunday.


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Lawmakers weigh bill to address OD deathsBy PETER HIRSCHFELD
Vermont Press Bureau | January 24,2013MONTPELIER More than 70 Vermonters perished last year in drug-related deaths. Now lawmakers are wondering whether fear of prosecution might have cost some of them their lives.
Legislation introduced in the House on Wednesday would extend limited criminal immunity to anyone who seeks medical attention for a drug user experiencing an overdose. Convinced that the threat of prosecution has deterred life-saving calls to 911, Chittenden County States Attorney T.J. Donovan said minimizing deaths associated with opiate use needs to become a public health imperative.
In no way do I view this bill as condoning drug use or condoning people sharing drugs, Donovan told the House Judiciary Committee. I view this bill as an effort to save peoples lives. Its very simple.
While the concept might be simple, executing it in statute will not be. The Department of States Attorneys and Sheriffs Association has already voiced concerns about the scope of crimes for which offenders would win immunity. And some lawmakers are already bristling at the idea of insulating suppliers from the criminal consequences of their actions.
The biggest concern ... is the fear that this legislation would preclude the prosecution of someone who legitimately deserved to be prosecuted, said Bram Kranichfeld, executive director of the Department of States Attorneys and Sheriffs Association.
But the bill has strong support from many legislators, and key officials in the Shumlin administration, including Commissioner of Public Safety Keith Flynn, say they support the effort.
The legislation guarantees immunity for certain crimes namely possessing, dispensing or being under the influence of an illicit drug so long as evidence of those crimes is the result of the offenders effort to secure emergency medical treatment for someone at risk of an overdose.
The bill also creates whats known as an affirmative defense for more severe crimes, including dispensing a narcotic with death resulting. An affirmative defense doesnt shield an offender from prosecution for the death of someone to whom he or she gave drugs. However, if the defendant can prove in trial that he was caught only because he was attempting to secure medical care for the dying victim, then the case would be tossed.
The bill also establishes an affirmative defense for the crime of selling drugs.
Donovan first proposed the legislation last summer, in the midst of a hard-fought Democratic primary for attorney general. He lost the election to Bill Sorrell, but is asking lawmakers to proceed with an idea he said will limit fatalities associated with what he calls the number one public safety and public health issue in the state of Vermont.
Thats based on my experience as a prosecutor in the largest city in Vermont, Donovan said. The cases that we see, particularly theft cases, burglary cases, robbery cases, inevitably lead to a person who is addicted to opiates and is stealing to feed their opiate habit.
Rep. Bill Lippert, a Hinesburg Democrat and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said the so-called Good Samritan legislation could be an important piece of a broader effort to curb opiate addiction in Vermont.
Of the 73 drug-related deaths in 2012, 40 involved prescription drugs. Another 32 involved other illicit drugs, including heroin. More than 100 people died in drug-related deaths in 2011.
While beginning a discussion on the bill doesnt signal the committees support for every aspect of it, Lippert said, he called the legislation an important place to start.
Donovan said the law isnt designed to protect drug dealers, but to eliminate a fear of authorities that might otherwise prevent a drug user from calling an ambulance for his overdosing friend.
A lot of people are afraid to act because theyre afraid theyll get into trouble its human nature, Donovan said. You have to incentivize people to want to call the police, to call 911, to bring people to the emergency room without fear of prosecution.
Commissioner of Health Harry Chen, who threw his support behind the bill Wednesday, said minutes matter when it comes to treating victims of an overdose. Taken in large doses, Chen explained to lawmakers, opiates depress the respiratory system.
Its a remarkable thing spending 30 years as an ER physician to see in a person, up close, the effects of narcotics, which is you dont breathe, Chen said. And theres something pretty eerie about a patient who is in overdose ... and theyre looking at you, blue, and not breathing.
Chen said emergency rooms are well equipped to treat an overdose, but that they cant reverse the damage to the brain and other organs that occurs when people wait to call an ambulance. He said the 73 deaths reported last year dont include people who will suffer permanent brain damage from overdoses.
Rep. Tom Koch, a Barre Town Republican, said hell likely support the legislation, but only grudgingly.
Its a tough pill for me to swallow pun intended, Koch said. Im just so sick of dealing with other peoples irresponsibility, and this is just one more example.
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The next big thing is small: Nanotechnology could lead to radical improvements in space exploration.
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A NASA report lays out the risks of exploring Mars and considers how to mitigate them.
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A thousand years ago, Mayan civilization collapsed. Today, a Space Age "situation room" in Panama is helping modern Central Americans avoid the same mistakes.
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Katrina Bowden is flaunting her sexy figure in Maxim magazine's February 2013 issue.
The 30 Rock star's pictorial focuses mainly on her backside with the headline "Your Dream Girl's Back -- Literally", showcasing her derriere in several arrays of skimpy lingerie.
The show's youngest star says she's excited for what's to come afer her show ends its run this spring.
"I don't know, but I'm definitely excited for a new chapter," she says. "I'd love to do a completely different kind of show, like 'Breaking Bad' or 'Homeland'. I'm really open to anything whether it's TV or more films."
Katrina says it's interesting seeing herself on TV all the time now that the show's in syndication.
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The 24-year-old was only 16 and had no experience when she was cast on the show, but now she's a pro and she considers everyone family.
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"At first I felt like I was in over my head, but everyone made me feel so comfortable. I'd hang out with the people from the show and go to SNL tapings and the after-parties, and a lot of the writers were young," she says. "Like, Donald Glover wrote for the show before he was on Community, and he's just a little older than me. But it's not like I was going crazy and partying, which might have been different if I'd been on a show with lots of young people, like Gossip Girl."
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September 13, 2012 —
Last month's column stimulated many comments from readers, for which I am grateful. I'd like to add additional insights I gained while researching compact fluorescent bulbs (CFL) and raise the question: "Why are CFLs touted as being better for the environment?" Promotion of CFLs elevates energy efficiency above environmental hazard.
One report, "Research into the Effects and Implications of Increased CFL Use," written by an interdisciplinary team of medical doctors, PhDs, lighting researchers and designers, electrical engineers and sustainable energy experts, questions the actual energy savings provided by CFLs. The advertised claim that CFLs are "four times more efficient than incandescent bulbs" is based not on actual use or research studies, but on mathematical calculations, thus yielding doubts about just how much CFLs cut greenhouse emissions. The same report lists among many safety concerns related to CFLs prolonged exposure to electromagnetic fields, particularly risky for infants and young children. See www.concerninglight.com/2010-03_Final-Report_comprehensive.pdf [2].
I discovered that, despite GE's promise that switching to CFLs would "create green jobs," CFLs are now manufactured exclusively in China, where power is supplied by unregulated, inefficient coal-fired power plants that contribute to global warming.
The fact that most CFLs are not recycled and end up in landfills is another concern. The PR spin has it that the bulbs contain only "trace" amounts of mercury, about four milligrams in each bulb. However, one gram of mercury, the contents of about 200-500 CFLs, will pollute a two-acre pond. According to NRDC: "Across the United States, mercury pollution has contaminated 18 million acres of lakes, estuaries, and wetlands (43 percent of the total), and 1.4 million river miles. From 2006 to 2008, the number of lake acres under advisory increased by 18 percent, and the number of river miles increased by 52 percent. And many waterways have not even been tested. In 2008, all 50 states issued fish consumption advisories, warning citizens to limit how often they eat certain types of fish caught in the state's waters because they are contaminated with mercury."
Additionally, if a bulb breaks in your home, breathing the released mercury vapor poses serious health hazards including nausea, vomiting and increased heart rate and blood pressure.
We consumers are often told that saving the environment is up to us. We wanted to believe the propaganda broadcast on NBC (formerly owned by GE), so we zealously switched to CFLs. We were told that we'd save money in the long run. We were told that CFLs were the next big green thing. We felt good helping to save the environment.
Hidden truths are hidden for a reason, and it seems that while corporations reap their profits, unconscionable burdens fall on us. In the case of CFLs, we pay for more expensive bulbs that don't perform as advertised, while GE makes its profit. We pay for expensive recycling kits in our effort to do the right thing, while GE makes it profit. We are exposed to the cumulative effects of the neurotoxin mercury in our water, air and home environments, while GE makes its profit.
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Vermonters worked to swing NH for Obama
In a second-floor office on Burlingtons College Street, the campaign of one well-known candidate has been toiling under the radar for months.
Of course Barack Obama didnt have to sweat election-night results in Vermont, where voters in 2008 delivered him a more lopsided victory than anywhere but his home state of Hawaii. So why did Obama for America pour precious resources into a paid staffer and office rent here? Its all about that swing state directly to our east.
We want to make sure we have an apparatus in place to organize volunteers and get out the vote in places where its going to be closer, Mike Czin, spokesman for Obama for America, said on Election Day.
According to Czin, Obamas field organization here had nothing to with winning votes in Vermont and everything to do with getting out the vote in New Hampshire. On Tuesday, an army of Obama supporters from Vermont jumped the Connecticut River to execute a well-coordinated get-out-the-vote effort in the Granite State.
We have a robust ground game across the state and what folks are working on in Vermont today, and have been working on for several months, is making sure President Obama gets elected, Czin said. And the best way to do that is to help make sure we get out the vote next door in the Granite State.
Dotty Kyle was among the hundreds of Vermont volunteers devoting their energy to swaying electoral results in New Hampshire. The 76-year-old Obama supporter was holed up Tuesday in a makeshift phone bank set up in her hometown of Warren.
Im not physically going to New Hampshire, but Im manning the phone bank all day long and am the dispatcher for the Valley Champs team, Kyle said by phone.
The Valley Champs, as they call themselves, was a team of more than 100 Obama for America volunteers from Warren, Waitsfield, Fayston and Moretown, some of whom had been working on the re-election campaign since March. Other Obama teams organized elsewhere across the state.
Dan Mulligan, Vermont director for Obama for America, coordinated the effort from his office in Burlington. He referred interview requests to Czin.
When Kyle wasnt phoning registered voters in New Hampshire, urging them to get out and vote, she coordinated the movements of the two two-person teams that the Valley Champs had on the ground canvassing in New Hampshire.
Were calling voters in New Hampshire from the call list weve been given by our headquarters to encourage people who have not yet gotten to the polls, to get the heck out there and do it, Kyle said.
Kyle isnt unfamiliar with the New Hampshire canvassing scene. She and some fellow Valley Champs did their first road trip on April 15 and had been banging on Granite State doors when they could ever since.
Were all strong supporters of President Obama and understand that his work is far from finished, and we want him to have a chance to finish it, Kyle said.
Jack Lindley, chairman of the Vermont GOP and de facto point man for Romney for President in Vermont, said the Republican presidential candidate didnt have any paid staff in Vermont. The campaigns get-out-the-vote machine was focused chiefly, Lindley said, on the pro-Republican robo-calls that have been dialing Vermont households of late.
Weve got our Victory offices up and running and thats how you get out your vote, Lindley said. Thats essentially our biggest contribution to the Romney campaign in Vermont, is the (five) Victory offices.
Kyle credits Vermonts small-pond politics for fueling the volunteer effort for Obama.
I think that Vermonters are aware of their rights, their duties and their privileges as citizens because were so close to our own democratic process, Kyle said. We can buttonhole Peter Shumlin and have a conversation with him. Our elected officials from top to bottom are accessible, and it makes it easy for us to be involved and aware. And I feel sorry for people in more populated areas that dont have that opportunity.
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The state is proposing a new 10-point checklist that schools could administer to certain preschool children to see if they are eligible for federally funded special needs services.
Children under age 3 who might have a disability typically have verbal issues, and they already undergo a battery of evaluations to determine if they are eligible for federally funded services.
But many children who undergo evaluations by the state Agency of Human Services are ineligible for federal funding, said Alice Farrell, the state director of special education for the Vermont Department of Education.
The checklists would be much less time-consuming. The in-depth evaluations would then determine what specific services the eligible child should receive.
A public hearing on the issue will be held at 6 p.m. Dec. 13 at the Rutland High School Café B, which is a part of the cafeteria. The school is located at 22 Stratton Road.
People who encounter children in these age groups, from doctors and dentists to church and day care center staff, are encouraged to attend the event because they are often able to refer students for evaluations.
The rule change would align the state with federal standards. Comments on the proposal can be submitted by Dec. 20.
Farrell, the Education Department staffer, said schools will arrange for the screenings to be conducted. School staff may administer the screening, or they may choose to contract for those services with early-childhood providers in the area.MORE IN Vermont NewsMONTPELIER Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt. Full StoryVermont Attorney General Bill Sorrell plans to join the U.S. Full StoryAs Rutland prepares to welcome Syrian refugees to its community, some are continuing to voice... Full Story
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Calling out a county executive
Orange County Executive Edward Diana's cynical veto of funding for Valley View Center for Nursing Care and Rehabilitation in Goshen, NY represents politics at its worst and continued public deception. Orange County is legally obligated to operate and, obviously, fund the operation of Valley View until and unless the New York State Department of Health approves the closing or sale of the facility. As has been widely reported, this cannot happen for many months or more and, during that time, the county remains legally obligated to run the facility and must appropriate money for that purpose.
More broadly, the legislature recently adopted a budget calling for Valley View's maintenance as a county facility for next year and voted to replace the current private administrators of the nursing home with another group. Diana failed to implement the resolution in a timely fashion. The purpose of this resolution was to ensure that the facility has a fair chance to operate and to correct the numerous documented errors made by the current operator—errors that caused a failure to obtain available reimbursements—and many inefficiencies in operation.
Diana has failed to promptly return to the bargaining table with the Civil Service Employees Association and reach consensus with union negotiators on changes that would likely yield several million dollars in real-time benefit to the county. Having failed to do this, Diana attacks the proposed union "concessions" as illusory. Again, he has failed to act and lead.
At bottom, most county residents believe, as I do, that we retain a strong moral obligation to the seniors who call Valley View home. We have a growing undersupply of skilled nursing care facilities and must protect the beds we have. If anything, the next county executive must commit to improving the quality of care at Valley View, not diminishing it. This can and will be done within the budget, but it will never be done by a county executive who decided a year ago to shutter the facility.
I implore all legislators to vote to override Diana's veto and I pledge that Orange County citizens will ensure that those who vote to close this facility will face stiff political opposition in 2013.
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A police search for a Madison woman earlier this week is leading to potential criminal charges against her husband.
Andres Uscanga, 20, is being held in the Dane County Jail on tentative charges of kidnapping and battery.
A search warrant indicates that investigators believe Uscanga beat his wife at a home on Madison's west side and took her against her will to a hotel in Lake Delton.
Madison police asked for the public's help finding the 18-year-old woman on Monday.
On Tuesday, officers took Uscanga into custody at the hotel and found the woman, according to police.
The warrant said that during interviews with police, the woman had "two black eyes and numerous bruises" that she said Uscanga caused.
The woman told police she didn't try to get away from Uscanga because she was "scared I'd probably get beat up again."
The woman had recently filed for divorce from Uscanga, according to court records.
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2013/03/04 Minutes Economics Working Group
1. Minutes from 18th February 2013 – approved
2. Work discussion last Friday – Mary wants to talk about LETS. Citizens income required to make work non-coercive. Weekend session Sunday 24th March 12noon-5pm provisionally arranged by Tim.
3. GIRO – meeting with VC – arranging meet with CEO of the Post Office (Steve Waldren). VC less enthusiastic but promised to come back. BoI hiked mortgage interest rates for 11,000 customers with tracker mortgages. PO offering the cheapest mortgages to new borrowers on the back of £15bn form UK depositors. PO contract is valuable to BoI; floated the idea of offering current accounts via the PO. Mrs Jack Straw (Alice Perkins) is Chair of the PO. Occupy GIRO public meeting would set the agenda. When and where to hold a campaign to bring back national GIRO bank.
4. Mike has access to the Twitter account. Mike to provide an article to Vica – "back to the workhouse"; lack of an active project on the website to initiate action from visitors. Need a communications team – GA to make GIRO occupy policy preceded by EWG approval.
5. Screening of Secret City under consideration – John is pursuing.
6. Debt jubilee – Friday 15th March Debt Assembly http://occupylondon.org.uk/events/debt-assembly 7-9pm at the Royal Exchange. Proposal to discuss Debt on Friday 8th March. Looking at the ground floor but need to look at the basement. Profit for theme 15th March. HFT – 22nd March. Dave will fill out the pro-forma for the debt meeting.
7. City Reform group (Naomi) – 16th March The Rules CoL campaign with UK Uncut: City of London elections and Debt (Africa) – Dave and John nominated as Labour party candidates (not Occupy). Cornhill, Queen Hive. Pirate Party UK seem to be involved in CoL campaign. Harry Shutt – 16th March Failures of Capitalism – Le Monde Diplomatique. 6:30pm Tuesday 12th March at the Guild Hall Avaaz lecture – responsible investment. Monday 25th March – LSE – Ben Bernanke, Larry Summers, Mervyn King register after noon Tuesday 19th March. Budget 20th March – volunteers for response – via piratepad on the day. HSBC – joint action with OWS on 5th March. Clive to respond and congratulate them on the cards.
8. LBoI – Occucards sold at 9c per card; numbered to make a set; need to approve all the text; available online to examine the text; John grouped the occucards, matched them to LboI and John will provide a table of themes matched to occucards. UK context "football card size". Table from John and then all interested should review. Specific card for GIRO Bank?
9. DPAC – Atos assessment death controversy. Statistics are vague – and some information is missing; annual death rate of those on disability benefits is unchanged – needs investigation.
10. Move your money campaign – developing website, funding from Rowntree Foundation. Look at the website; threats can be effective. www.moveyourmoney.org.uk/
11. Need to discuss cooperation with other Occupy groups.
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The water expert from Corpus Christi and Victoria made that statement when he addressed members of Beeville's Rotary Club Wednesday afternoon at the Beeville Country Club.
"Whiskey is for drinking, and water is for fighting," Rotarian Josephine Miller said when she introduced Dodson.
When the water expert stood up he said that whiskey might have started more fights, but water had been the cause of anything from feuds to international conflicts.
Dodson has enjoyed a long career in engineering and water planning over the years. In the 1990s, he was involved in the agreement that resulted in Corpus Christi being required, by a court order, to release a certain amount of water from its reservoir system into the Coastal Bend bays and estuaries.
"Dryness has always been a problem for the western part of the state," Dodson said.
In the 1800s, most residents around the Corpus Christi area depended on shallow wells that had salty water and cisterns for their drinking and irrigation water.
Corpus Christi eventually built a pump station on the Nueces River at Calallen in the late 1800s, and in the 1930s, the river was dammed up to create Lake Mathis.
That original dam did not last long, so, in 1958, Corpus Christi built the Wesley Seale Dam and created Lake Corpus Christi.
That new dam was prompted by the extended drought of the 1950s that caused considerable worries in much of Texas.
Plans began for creating another reservoir for the Coastal Bend almost as soon as the Wesley Seale Dam was completed.
After considerable study and political wrangling, Corpus Christi finally settled on impounding water in Choke Canyon Reservoir near Three Rivers.
The dam creating that lake was completed in 1982, but it was 1987 before the lake was completely filled.
But two years later, the Coastal Bend found itself in the grips of more drought, with that dry spell lingering off and on until 1995.
To solve that problem, Corpus Christi signed an agreement with the Lavaca-Navidad River Authority in 1996 that authorized the city to build the Mary Rhodes Pipeline from Lake Texana.
Dodson said the population of the Coastal Bend was expected to grow to a point that the region would be facing water shortages again. But water usage in 2010 showed the situation to be "flat."
Dodson said water usage that year was the same as it had been in 1984.
One of the major factors in that development came about when industrial water users managed to reduce the amount of water they required.
"Industry is doing a good job of conserving," Dodson said.
One of the projects Corpus Christi is considering would include the construction of a centralized, $1.2 billion wastewater treatment plant that could pump treated wastewater to industries in that city.
The most recent development that is affecting the Coastal Bend's water resources has been the need for water in the Eagle Ford Shale oil field.
San Patricio County could be doubling its water demand in the next five or 10 years.
Dodson said the Corpus Christi Regional Water Management Plan is calling for the construction of a Mary Rhodes II pipeline to bring water from the Colorado River.
But water levels in the Highland Lakes in the Texas Hill County could reduce the amount of water that could be pumped from that river.
Currently, Corpus Christi is looking at the possibility of desalinating sea water and even brackish water from wells around the Coastal Bend.
He said water planners also are looking at creating deep injection wells in which to store treated water. That would prevent the water loss from evaporation that now plagues the reservoirs in the Coastal Bend.
"Groundwater has huge potential," Dodson said.
Since the 1950s, Beeville residents have always paid their fair share for the water the city pumps from the Nueces River at the headwaters of Lake Corpus Christi.
He said he thinks that is now up to about $1.25 per 1,000 gallons for raw water. Then the city adds the cost of treatment and distribution to the formula to determine what the individual customer pays.
Dodson believes the future for water development in the Coastal Bend is groundwater. There is fresh water in many of the water tables in the area and brackish water in other aquifers.
However, the entire region needs to be ready to depend on multiple sources for its water in the future, he said.
Gary Kent is a reporter at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 343-5220, or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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After the vehicle was stopped, police discovered more than two ounces of crack cocaine and a small amount of marijuana.
Police arrested 20-year-old Dajuan Williams and 19-year-old Corina Castro, both of Holland, Mich., and 45-year-old Edgar Tony Scott of Detroit.
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February 15, 2004: An international team of astronomers may have set a new record in discovering what is the most distant known galaxy in the universe. Located an estimated 13 billion light-years away, the object is being viewed at a time only 750 million years after the big bang, when the universe was barely 5 percent of its current age. The primeval galaxy was identified by combining the power of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and CARA's W. M. Keck Telescopes on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. These great observatories got a boost from the added magnification of a natural "cosmic gravitational lens" in space that further amplifies the brightness of the distant object.See the rest:
The distant galaxy appears as an arc (left) and a dot (right), as its light is forced along different paths through the cluster's core of complex clumps of mass (the yellow galaxies), where the magnification is quite large.


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Mark Vander Kooi was named the Chicago Bears High School Coach of the Week for week five 2010. Vander Kooi is in his second season as head coach of the Lincoln-Way West High School football program in New Lenox, IL. As part of the honor, the Bears are donating $1,500 to Lincoln-Way West's program, and Vander Kooi will be invited to the Bears-Patriots game on December 12 where he'll be recognized during an on-field ceremony.
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My DD is 9 1/2 mo and we would like to keep her distracted while at dinner table (once she's done with her food, she starts to fuss). I heard one mom was giving her son a piece of bread.
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After the Raptors 5 game losing-streak hanging onto a 6-12 record .. The Media/Press talks-rumors each day had Lowry being traded to the Knicks.
Lowry put a STOP to all the trade rumor report of him going to the ball-hogger Melo's Knicks.
The Raptors are playing TEAM-BALL with Lowry's leadership on both ends of the court (20-18 record)


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First it is important to understand how to read your water meter.
To check for leaks follow these steps:
Method 1
Turn off all water taps inside and outside your home. Record the meter reading and return in two to three hours to check for movement. If the meter reading has changed, you may have a leak.
Method 2
Many meters have a small red (or blue) triangle on the meter face, designed to detect even small leaks. If this red triangle is moving when you have all water off inside and outside your home, you may have a leak.
Common sources of leaks are a toilet that is running, a constant drip in a sink or outdoor faucet, a loose or dripping washer connection, a home water treatment unit, an evaporative cooler unit, or a sprinkler system.
Shutting off Water at Your Meter
Should you need to shut off the supply of water to your house (to repair a leak, etc.) there is usually a shutoff valve right at the water meter. The water meter shutoff valve typically looks like a brass bolt located on the pipe connected to the water meter. Often this bolt will have an arrow stamped into the top indicating the direction of flow. To shut off the water supply, use a large pair of pliers to turn the bolt 90 degrees. You can check to make sure that the water is off by operating a faucet or hose bib. To restore the water supply to your home, simply turn the bolt back to the position you found it.


text: Any band that lasts 25 years deserves a pat on the back, but Cheater Slicks merit a hearty slap, one that matches the violence in their music. The gnarled, noise-mongering garage greats, who began in Boston circa 1987 before relocating to Columbus in the '90s, are world-famous for their stellar string of albums and their notoriously confrontational feedback feast of a live show. The next one is Friday at Ace of Cups, when they'll celebrate their silver anniversary with good buddies Bassholes and Obnox. Meanwhile, CDR just released the second installment in a three-volume set of live albums, and a new studio record, "Reality Is a Grape," is coming this fall.


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Written by monur on 13.07.2012 at 17:21
Very underrated album. You will be surprised how it survived to this day without notice. Listen asap.
Written by Erik M. on 16.03.2013 at 02:20
So an 8.7 on MS is "very underrated"?
I think it's actually overrated a bit. Not every song is equally great... the first few songs are amazing (The Dead Stare is by far my favourite song on the album), though the last few are a bit of a letdown for me.
Written by Mr. Doctor on 06.11.2013 at 20:31
I'd definitely consider this album to be quite underrated. I don't care about the rating in MS (and never have), but it's quite easy to see how most people don't talk much about this album (or Monumension) compared to most of the other album from their discography. I think this album is damn strong, specially the riffs... I guess I'm also one of the few who consider the second half to be even stronger and more interesting (although the whole album is great).


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This article is the first installment of a two-part article. Part One, presented here, covers the new features in JSP 2.1; Part Two offers details about the changes and additions in the custom tag handler API.
Ever since Sun released the JavaServer Pages (JSP) 1.1 specification in December 1999, thousands of developers have flocked to this powerful technology for dynamic Web content development. JSP-INTEREST is now Sun's second most popular mailing list, with more than 4,000 subscribers; new Web sites dedicated to JSP pop up every day; and some 30 JSP books have been released so far. JSP 1.1 is supported by most, if not all, Web servers and application servers, and developers can take advantage of numerous JSP tag libraries and frameworks -- of both the open source and the commercial varieties.
(For more on JSP, Servlets, and Tomcat, see ONJava's JSP and Servlets topic page.)
While Web application developers all over the world have been busy developing new applications based on JSP 1.1, the JSP 1.2 specification has been taking shape within the Java Community Process group called JSR-053. Members of this group include authors, application server developers from big and small commercial vendors as well as the open source community, and servlet and JSP developers.
Released September 17th, the JSP 1.2 specification is now ready for public consumption. It contains everything from brand new features to corrections and clarifications of areas that were not quite right in the previous version. The most important changes:
include action can now be used without flushing.
String literal tag attribute values now include conversion to the
Object type.
PropertyEditor can be used for custom attribute value conversion.
Tomcat 4.0 is the reference implementation for the JSP 1.2 and Servlet 2.3 specifications. The Tomcat server is a Java-based Web application container that was created to run Servlet and JavaServer Page Web applications. Tomcat 4.0 was released at the same time as the JSP 1.2 spec, so you can try out the new features now. Some of the commercial Web containers, such as New Atlanta's ServletExec 4.1, already support the new specifications as well.
This article will cover all of the new stuff the specification group has cooked up and show you how to use the new features. Most of the changes apply to programmers and container developers, so this article assumes you're a Java programmer familiar with the JSP 1.1 specification. If you're primarily a page author, I'm afraid there's not much of interest for you in this article, but rest assured that you will benefit from JSP 1.2's more powerful custom tag libraries, more efficient containers, and better portability between containers.
JSP 1.2 is based on the latest Servlet specification: Servlet 2.3. This gives a JSP 1.2 application access to all new servlet features, such as listeners, filters, and internationalization improvements. Later in this article, I describe how you can use listeners in a JSP tag library. I also recommend that you read Jason Hunter's Servlet 2.3 articles in JavaWorld (see the Resources section) to learn how to take advantage of the other new Servlet features.
Both JSP 1.2 and Servlet 2.3 require the Java 2 platform. The good news is that Web containers can now take advantage of all the new features added since JDK 1.1, such as collections, more advanced class loaders, and flexible security. The same is, of course, true for your own Web applications. The bad news is that JSP 1.2 applications will not run on platforms that only support JDK 1.1. There are very few of these left at this point, so this should not be a problem for most of us.
JSP 1.2 is backwards compatible with JSP 1.1. If you have a JSP 1.1 application, it should run without any tweaking in a JSP 1.2- compliant container.
What are your thoughts on the new JSP 1.2 specification?
In JSP 1.1, the
flush attribute was mandatory and only accepted the value
true. This meant that as soon as you used the
include action, all content generated up to that point was flushed to the browser, and you could no longer forward to another page or set response headers. This caused a lot of confusion and side-effect problems that were hard to understand and deal with. Readers of the JSP-INTEREST mailing list, or any other JSP forum, know what I'm talking about.
JSP 1.2 takes advantage of improvements in the Servlet 2.3 specification to finally get rid of this restriction. The
flush attribute of the
include action now accepts the value
false. In fact, the attribute is now optional and
false is the default value, so in most cases you can just omit it and forget about all the flushing issues of the past.
With JSP 1.1, a page like this resulted in an error due to the use of a forward after an include:
<jsp:include page="common.jsp" flush="true" />
<% if (someCondition) { %>
<jsp:forward page="another.jsp" />
<% } %>
In JSP 1.2 it's legal to change the
flush attribute value to
false or omit it.
You can even use the
include action in the body of a custom action element:
<xsl:apply xsl="style.xsl">
<jsp:include page="someXML.jsp" />
This was also a no-no in JSP 1.1 due to buffering issues that have been resolved in JSP 1.2.
An important part of JSP 1.2 is the definition of an XML syntax for JSP. A JSP 1.2-compliant container must accept files in both the old JSP 1.1 format, now formally called a JSP Page, and the new XML format, formally called a JSP Document.
A JSP Document has a root element named
<jsp:root> that defines the namespaces for the standard JSP elements and all custom tag libraries used in the page. All JSP directives and scripting elements must be represented by XML elements instead of the ASP-like elements used in a JSP Page:
<jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html" />
<demo:myLoopTag items="myCollection" var="current">
<jsp:getProperty name="current" property="lastName" />,
<jsp:getProperty name="current" property="firstName" />
Besides JSP elements, such as the declaration and custom actions shown in this example, a JSP Document can also contain XML elements, such as XHTML elements. Examples here are the
<ul> and
<li> elements.
It's not in the scope of this article to describe the complete JSP Document syntax. Note, however, that it's much more verbose than the JSP Page syntax, and is primarily intended to be used by tools. If you still want to use this syntax, I recommend that you read section 5, JSP Documents, of the JSP 1.2 specification.
When a container receives a request for a JSP Page the first time, it converts it to an XML document, similar to a JSP Document, before it performs validation and conversion to a servlet. This XML document is formally called the XML View of the page. The only difference between an XML View and a JSP Document is that all template text is wrapped within
<jsp:text> elements, using
CDATA sections to prevent problems with special characters that may be used in the template text:
<jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html" />
<demo:myLoopTag items="myCollection" var="current">
<jsp:getProperty name="current" property="lastName" />
<jsp:getProperty name="current" property="firstName" />
The new
TagLibraryValidator described later in this article uses the XML View to validate a JSP Page.
With JSP 1.2 also comes a couple of simplifications for deployment and distribution of tag libraries: auto-discovery of tag libraries and distribution of multiple libraries in one JAR file.
In JSP 1.1, you could refer to a tag library by letting the
taglib directive's
uri attribute specify either the real path to the tag library or a symbolic name. If you used a symbolic name, you also had to map the name to the real path with the
<taglib> element in the
web.xml file for the application. JSP 1.2 adds a third, more powerful alternative: just drop the tag library JAR file in the
WEB-INF/lib directory and use the library's standard URI in the taglib directive.
Here's how it works. The Tag Library Descriptor (TLD) includes a
<uri> element that you use to define the standard URI for the library:
When the Web application is started, the container scans through the
WEB-INF directory structure for files ending with the extension .tld and all JAR files that contain files with the .tld extension in their
META-INF directory. In other words, all TLD files. For each TLD, the container looks for the
<uri> element and creates a map from the URI to the TLD that contains it. In your JSP page, you just have to place a
taglib directive with a
uri attribute value matching the URI in the TLD:
<%@ taglib uri="/demo" prefix="demo" %>
That's it! No more messing around with real paths (which may change, for instance, when you upgrade the library) in the JSP pages or
web.xml tag library declaration woes.
A beneficial side effect of the auto-discovery feature is that you can bundle more than one tag library in the same JAR file. In JSP 1.1, a TLD contained in a JAR file had to be named exactly
META-INF/taglib.tld. This meant that a JAR file could only contain one TLD.
The auto-discovery feature, however, treats any file with a .tld extension in a JAR file's
META-INF directory as a TLD. You can therefore put multiple TLDs (along with the class files for the libraries) in one JAR file. This makes it easier for your users to deploy related tag libraries. Note that you must use the auto-discovery mechanism to deploy multi-library JAR files, since there's no way to specify the path to an individual TLD in such a JAR file.
The Servlet 2.3 specification extends the event listener capability of previous versions. Previously, you've only been able to receive notifications about changes to session attributes, but starting with Servlet 2.3 you can implement listeners for servlet context and session life cycle events, servlet context attribute changes, and session activation and passivation events (used by a container that temporarily saves session state to disk or migrates a session to another server).
All new types of listeners follow the standard Java event model. In other words, a listener is a class that implements one or more of the new listener interfaces. The interfaces define methods that correspond to events. Your listener class is registered with the container when the application starts, and the container calls the event methods at the appropriate times.
You can bundle one or more event listeners with a tag library. To get the listeners registered, you just define the listener implementation classes in the Tag Library Descriptor (TLD) for your library using the new
<listener> element:
When the container loads the Web application, it looks through all TLDs for listener definitions and registers them.
You can use listeners for a number of tasks. For instance, a servlet context lifecycle event listener can initialize resources used by the application (such as a connection pool) when the application starts and shut them down gracefully when it stops. A session lifecycle listener can initialize new sessions or keep track of the number of active sessions.
Here's an example of a session lifecycle listener that keeps track of active sessions:
package com.foo;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
public class MyListener implements HttpSessionListener {
public void sessionCreated(HttpSessionEvent hse) {
int[] counter = getCounter(hse);
public void sessionDestroyed(HttpSessionEvent hse) {
int[] counter = getCounter(hse);
private int[] getCounter(HttpSessionEvent hse) {
HttpSession session = hse.getSession();
ServletContext context = session.getServletContext();
int[] counter = (int[])
if (counter == null) {
counter = new int[1];
context.setAttribute("com.foo.counter", counter);
return counter;
For every new session, a counter maintained as a servlet context attribute is incremented. When a session ends, the counter is decremented. Tags in the library can be used to simply display the current number of active session, reject new users if a certain number of sessions are active (to ensure optimal performance), or whatever makes sense in your application.
A brand new feature in JSP 1.2 is the tag library validator, represented by the
javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.TagLibraryValidator class. The Web container uses the validator defined for a tag library when it converts a JSP page that uses the tag library to a servlet, after performing validation of the page based on the information available in the TLD (mandatory attributes, empty bodies). You implement a validator as a subclass of
TagLibraryValidator and override the
validate() method:
public ValidationMessage[] validate(String prefix,
String uri, PageData pageData)
The validator's
validate() method is invoked with an instance of
PageData. Through the
instance, the validator can get the XML representation of the page. This is either an XML View for a page written in the JSP Page format
or a JSP Document (written from scratch using the JSP XML syntax).
With access to the XML representation of the complete page, a validator can perform validation that would be impossible using just TLD information or the information about a single custom action element available to a
TagExtraInfo class. For instance, a validator can verify that a custom action that must be used as a subelement of another action element is not used anywhere else, or that action elements are used in the appropriate order.
A validator is associated with a tag library through the new
<validator> element in the TLD:
<validator-class> element is used to specify the validator class name. Optional
<init-param> elements can be used to configure a generic validator for a specific tag library.
Here's an example of a validator that verifies that a
<param> custom action element is only used within the body of a
<redirect> action element from the same tag library. We look at the code piece by piece, starting with the class declaration:
package com.foo;
import java.util.*;
import javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.*;
import org.jdom.*;
import org.jdom.input.*;
public class MyValidator extends TagLibraryValidator {
private SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();
private Namespace jspNamespace = Namespace.getNamespace("jsp",
As you can see, the validator class extends the
TagLibraryValidator class that is part of the JSP API. In this particular validator, I use JDOM to work with the XML representation of the page. I therefore import the JDOM packages containing classes for parsing and the JDOM tree. You can, of course, use any XML parser and validation tools you want. For instance, the Jakarta Taglibs project is experimenting with a lot of different XML tools in their validators.
I create an instance of the JDOM
SAXBuilder class and save it as an instance variable. If the container caches instances of validators, this saves me from having to create this object for every page that's validated. I also create a JDOM Namespace for the JSP namespace as an instance variable. More about that later.
The validator must override the
validate() method:
public ValidationMessage[] validate(String prefix, String uri, PageData pd) {
ValidationMessage[] vms = null;
ArrayList msgs = new ArrayList();
try {
Document doc = builder.build(pd.getInputStream());
Element root = doc.getRootElement();
validateElement(root, prefix, msgs);
catch (Exception e) {
vms = new ValidationMessage[1];
vms[0] = new ValidationMessage(null, e.getMessage()); }
if (msgs.size() != 0) {
vms = new ValidationMessage[msgs.size()];
return vms;
validator() method gets the XML representation of the page and uses JDOM to parse the document. It then calls the
validateElement() method with the document's root element, the prefix used for this tag library, and an
ArrayList used to collect error messages. If the
validateElement() method finds any errors, the message list is converted to an array of
ValidationMessage instances, used as the return value.
As you will see later, a
ValidationMessage instance contains the error message itself and possibly information about where the error was found in the JSP source file. The fact that the
validate() method returns an array of
ValidationMessage instances means that all errors found in the page can be presented in one shot, allowing the page author to fix them all at once instead of one by one.
validateElement() method is a dispatcher to methods that validate specific elements:
private void validateElement(Element e, String ns, ArrayList msgs) {
if (ns.equals(e.getNamespace().getPrefix())) {
if (e.getName().equals("param")) {
validateParam(e, ns, msgs);
if (e.hasChildren()) {
List kids = e.getChildren();
Iterator i = kids.iterator();
while(i.hasNext()) {
validateElement((Element) i.next(), ns, msgs);
It's a recursive method that is called for all elements in the document tree. First it checks if the current element is part of the namespace for this tag library. It then checks if it's an element that needs to be validated, and if so, calls the appropriate method.
In this example I only validate elements of type
param, but you can see how you could extend it to validate other elements as well.
For all types of elements that have child nodes, the
validateElement() method calls itself again with each child node. That's how the method recursively scans the whole document tree.
The real validation code in this example is found in the
validateParam() method:
private void validateParam(Element e, String ns,
ArrayList msgs) {
Element parent = findParent(e, ns, "redirect");
if (parent == null) {
String id = e.getAttributeValue("id", jspNamespace);
ValidationMessage vm = new ValidationMessage(id,
e.getQualifiedName() +
" must only be used with 'redirect'");
validateParam() method uses the
findParent() method to see if the current
param element has a parent element of type
redirect. If it doesn't, it means that the
param element is used incorrectly. In this case, a
ValidationMessage instance is created to report the error and added to the list of error messages.
ValidationMessage contains two pieces of information:
the error message itself and a unique ID for the element that the message refers to. The unique ID is assigned by the container and provided to the validator as an element attribute named
id in the JSP namespace; in other words, an attribute named
Therefore, the first thing the
validateParam() method does if it finds an error is to try to get this attribute so it can include it in the
ValidationMessage. This is where the
Namespace instance variable mentioned earlier is used.
The container maintains a map between the ID and the location (line and column) of the element in the JSP source file. With this information, it can generate user-friendly error messages, including the location of the error. Note, however, that the container is not required to add the unique ID attributes. For instance, Tomcat 4.0 does not support this feature but future versions may.
Finally, the
findParent() method looks like this:
private Element findParent(Element e, String ns, String name) {
if (e.getName().equals(name) &&
ns.equals(e.getNamespace().getPrefix())) {
return e;
Element parent = e.getParent();
if (parent != null) {
return findParent(parent, ns, name);
return null;
It simply calls itself recursively until it either finds an element of the specified type or reaches the top of the document tree. If it finds a matching element, it returns it. Otherwise it returns
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JavaServer Pages
JSP 1.2 still supports the validation of individual custom action elements through the
TagExtraInfo isValid() method in addition to the new validation mechanism. The validation that can be performed by the
isValid() method is so limited compared to what a validator can do, however, I recommend that you focus on validators from now on.
In this installment, I have shown a number of new features introduced by the JSP 1.2 specification that will certainly improve your applications. You can take advantage of everything in the Java 2 platform and the Servlet 2.3 API, use the
include action in a much more flexible way than before, deploy tag libraries
without additional configuration, use event listeners to simplify application and session state management, and create validators for your tag libraries for complete validation of JSP pages with author-friendly error messages.
But this is only the beginning. In the second part of this article I tell you all the good stuff that's been added to the custom tag developer's toolbox.
Hans Bergsten is the founder of Gefion Software and author of O'Reilly's JavaServer Pages, 3rd Edition.
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I am currently breastfeeding my second son on demand and thankfully it seems to be working well at 1 1/2 weeks! With my first, nursing never worked out so I exclusively pumped.
My question is about when to start pumping to save up milk for bottle feedings and returning to work. I am taking 12 wks off so we have time, but I want to be sure we are well stocked and prepared for the transistion.
Is 4-5 weeks a good time to test the introduction of a bottle? If so, when should I start pumping in between nursing?
Also, when pumping in between feedings, when is the best time to do so and for how long? I don't want to interfere with his meals


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Madrague de Giens (ca. 60 BCE)
This big hull was carrying at least 400 tons of wine in 6,000 to 7,000 amphoras. During the excavation and recording period, a section of hull was removed, raised, studied, and reinstalled in its original location on the seabed. Other cargo included pottery and pine cones. A thick layer of caulking material separated the planking layers. The hull was sheathed in lead over a thick layer of fabric. The inner layer of planking was made from elm; the outer layer from fir. Floor timbers and half-frames were made from elm; futtocks from walnut. The keel was double-rabbeted for double planking. The scarfing pattern of the keel is complex. See Rival for a complete description. The keel was not rockered, but a three-planed orientation provided similar results. The 4th and 5th outer strakes are replacements. Unlike Kyrenia, these floor chocks and floor timbers were cut from the same pieces of wood. The publications refer to a keelson, but it is actually a 7.5 m-long mast step, similar in design and placement to that of the Kyrenia ship. The inner layer of planking was 6 cm thick. Mortises were 10 to 12 cm deep and 8 cm wide. Tenons were 20 to 22 cm long, 8 cm wide, and 1.5 cm thick. The joints were spaced on 15 cm centers. Pegs averaged 1.2 cm in diameter at the inner plank surfaces. Tenons and pegs were made from oak. 1
Main publication
- Pomey, P. "Le navire romain de la Madrague de Giens" Acadamie des Inscriptions & Belle-Lettres (1982)
- Tchernia, A., P. Pomey, A. Hesnard et al. "L'épave romaine de la Madrague de Giens" 34th supplement to Gallia, 1978.
- Rival, M. La charpenterie naval romaine: Materiaux, Methods, Moyans. Paris: CNRS, 1991, 147-239.
- Gianfrotta, P.A. and P. Pomey. 1981. Archeologia Subacquea: Storia, Tecniche, Scoperte e Relitti. Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore.
- Pomey, P., P.A. Gianfrotta,X. Nieto, and A. Tchernia. 1997. La Navigation dans l'Antiquité. Aix-en-Provence: Édisud.
1. Richard Steffy, INA Shipdata Project, Texas A&M University.


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The suspect, Martin Garcia, reportedly admitted during an interview with Detective David Ruiz of the Victoria Police Department and Detective Sgt. Art Gamez that he had touched two girls sexually in early 2005, while he and his former wife were living in Victoria.
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I live in zip code 44067, i've been having issues receiving texts since 2/1/12, and i have a samsung intercept. occasionally, i receive the text when it was sent, recently the problem seems to be getting much worse and it can take anywhere from 2-24 hours to get them. some of them that i've had other people send me as tests, i haven't received at all. voicemail also seems to be affected by this. what the heck is going on?
I am sorry you are having these problems. There can be several things that cause you to not get timely (if any) notifications. Have you tried taking out the battery and putting it back in? Also, how much internal storage do you have left? You can see by going to home/menu/settings/sd & phone storage - see how much storage you have...sometimes phones wont receive messages if there isn't enough memory to hold them...
Try a battery pull and then please update the data profile on the device by going to home/menu/settings/system updates/update profile - and let's see if you get your notifications...You can test it by sending a text message to your own phone number to see if you get them.
Sometimes you need to set your phone's Roaming mode to Sprint only instead of Automatic in order to consistently get your notifications. If the steps above don't fix the problem, please reply back to this thread and then we'll set the Roam mode to Sprint only.
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No luck. 56MB of storage (i was at 32, then cleared the caches). tried updating profile, didn't work. went to settings/wireless & networks/mobile networks/system select and selected "sprint only". still not working.
Did you notice any change in the number of signal bars on your device when you changed to Sprint only? Delayed text messages are usually related to signal issues. It's prompted by very low signal strength or when roaming because, essentially our network is unable to find your phone to deliver the messages. When set to Sprint only, it pretty much rules out roaming as the cause of the issue. If you have 0 or 1 bar after changing to Sprint only, that is probably the problem.
If you still seem to have good signal strength, I would start looking at the possibility of other factors. Is there anything else you can think of that could be causing the issue? Does the issue clear up in different locations? I don't see any tower issues in 44067. Some apps have been known to interfere with the retrieval of text messages. In particular if you have any type of task killer, anti-virus or text message apps, you should try uninstalling then and powercycle the phone. This is because their is a piece of software running on your phone specifically to receive texts. If there is an app killing or interfering with this process, you may not receive messages until you powercycle. If all else fails, you can try a factory reset. If it's software related, a factory reset will likely work. Let me know if you have any luck.
my bar strength is good, and my apps are pretty basic. the issue seems to clear up at my work, oddly enough, which is about 3 miles south of where i live, same zip code. also, receiving a phone call triggers me to receive a few messages, but not all of them (ones i've sent to myself or ones i asked friends to send, and who knows what other ones i'm missing) i have no task killer besides the standard task manager that came on the phone, nor do i have any other texting apps or anti-virus.
If you shoot me a private message with a physical address, I can locate the specific tower and make sure there are no problems. Has this issue occurred on any other Sprint devices at the same location?
same issue here. i am in the same area in ohio and i do not received texts timely or at all, until i go to make an outgoing call. by continuing to call my voicemail i then receive the texts but this is getting frustrating
Marasarko, - having the exact same problem and I live in 44067 also. I went to Best Buy since that is where I have my protection plan through (Geek Squad) after checking on what the problem could be, and hearing I would have to send my phone in for a re-furbished, replacment phone, I decided to hold off and spoke to the Mobile guys at BB. Before I told them the problem, the gentelman I was talking to asked if he could guess. He listed everything that I am having problems with, which is the same exact thing as you, not recieving texts in "real time" and it's affecting voicemail too. He said he has seen almost 50 = 100 people come in and exchange their phones, thinking it was the phone, but it's SPRINT and the network in the area we live in.
I spent the rest of the afternoon on the phone with Sprint, trouble shooting my phone, reprogramming it, and almost had to take it down to factory settings (something I was hesitant to do) then my Dad called me and said he was having the exact same problems with his sprint phone, and he has an LG, and lives in the next city over from me (I'm in Northfield, and he is in Walton Hills)
The Best Buy guy said it seemes to be affecting Northfield, Macedonia, Twinsburg, and well now Walton Hills.
After I told the Sprint woman about my Dad having the same problem, she decided to open a CTMS network ticket to send someone out to our area.
We need to keep on Sprint so they get this resolved. I rely on texting a ton as I'm sure most people do.
P.s. I work downtown Cleveland and recieve texts just fine, so its the network where we live!
You can also add Brecksville. I talked to a rep yesterday and she confirmed that Sprint was having issues with the tower I would typically be using. They said it should be fixed by today. So we shall see. I am still upset at the fact that no one knew what was going on until a day or 2 later. Even the people on this website that are Sprint tech people had no idea which is odd to me. It started from what I was told around thursday night/friday night for some people. So here is hoping that it is fixed soon. No one that lives in the Northeast Ohio areas should get rid of their phone, get it repaired, restore, go to factory defaults etc until you know the cell tower in your area is working properly.
Hey Shanetalk,
Thanks for jumping on this thread, and continuing to validate that it's not our phones, but the Sprint service. My texting issues started on 2/9, but I missed a voicemail on 25jan, that didnt show up until 26jan after someone else left me a voicemail and pushed that one from the day before through.
As the weekend progressed the problems, mostly concerning texting, seem to be getting worse. Let's hope that Sprint is monitoring this thread, and that the rep you spoke to and the rep i spoke to are actually opening tickets to get our area checked out. The list of cities seems to be growing which can only lead to more disatisfied customers for Sprint.
Again, texting from downtown Cleveland, NPWSE = no problems what so ever!
Yes they always assume it is the phone and not their network. Most of the time it is their network. I had Verizon and never had any problems. Makes me regret switching now....They claim the problem is fixed after calling them today but texting still does not work. The only way I get my texts is if I call myself they come through which it never happened before till the tower went down or something happened to it....
I am also in the Brecksville area and have spoken with 2 reps since Friday. Was told this afternoon that service should be restored by tomorrow at 11:32am. I certainly hope so. I am also having problems receiving calls. My phone is ringing about 8 times before it actually rings on the cell phone. So not only am I missing texts, but phone calls too. Can I get a credit on my bill, for the problems this is causing me???
I would call Sprint and ask them to credit your account.
I was on the phone with Sprint three times yesterday and finally asked to speak with a supervisor as I felt I was getting conflicting information. The supervisor was very nice, and showed me a few things I didn't know as to how to back up things on my phone in case I had to take it down to factory settngs. She advised that someone would call me back to troubleshoot my phone and after two hrs of doing what Denise suggested, with none of it resolving the problem, I asked what Sprint is going to do since I am not getting the service I am paying for. She said she would credit my account, how much I do not know, but I will be following up on this as well. You may want to call them back if this is not fixed by the time they told you.
I have a feeling that this will take a while for them to fix, but as long as we keep on them individually, as well as collectivly, they will have to get to the bottom of this texting/vm problem as it is unacceptable for this to go on much longer.
Bad news...From what I was told a few minutes ago the issue has been resolved and the supervisor got a lil snippy with me stating that it probably is only affecting a few people. But we created a help ticket and they will look into it within 72hrs...So not sure where the one guy got that the issue will be fixed by tomorrow. According to Sprint and the super is they thought the issue was resolved and closed the ticket. So yeah I dunno what to do from here. If they keep not fixing it I may have to think about looking into a different carrier.
it's becoming pretty apparent that it's affecting more and more people, it's just taking a stupid long time to go through the bs to find out that no, it's not our phones or something we did, that it's the network. if i go 3 miles south of where i live (from northfield to macedonia) my texting service works just fine. so i'm sure that the longer this issue continues, the more people (hopefully) that they are being manipulated in order to give sprint sometime to clean up whatever problem this may be. and yeah, i want my acct credited for this. it's just silly.
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