Credit cards for Charlie Cards

[hahathor.livejournal.com]

I attempted to use my Visa card to purchase a Charlie card at the Davis Square T station on Friday evening. After about 10 minutes of trying to make the machine acknowledge my credit card, a worker informed me that the system wasn't acknowledging cards. I purchased a card using the last of the change in my wallet. Today I checked my credit card on line & see that I have been charged $10 for the Charlie card I didn't receive. I guess the system was working well enough to charge credit cards, just not well enough to provide Charlie cards for the charged amount. I was wondering if anyone has had this problem, and if anyone knows who I'm supposed to contact about this.

CharlieCard distribution

[xxv.livejournal.com]

Has anyone gotten a CharlieCard yet? I hear they were supposed to be handing them out to commuters today, but I didn't see anyone at Davis.

MBTA jargon note: CharlieCards are the RFID cards that you wave over the dark grey rectangles on the new turnstiles. CharlieTickets are the paper cards that jam the turnstiles. CharliePasses are the thin plastic cards (cleverly mislabeled "CharlieTicket") that they're deprecating.

Update: I think I made up the name "CharliePass", although I swear I saw it somewhere in the MBTA literature.
Update #2: Davis gets them starting tomorrow. Other stations get them at other times.

Diva Lounge & Tufts students

[tricarbonate.livejournal.com]

Although the relationship between Tufts students and the local community is tenuous at times, I thought that community members should be aware of this editorial, and perhaps a dialogue can be established.

Editorial in Tufts Daily - "Racism at Diva Lounge"

[edit 17:55pm EST 2006-12-04: fixed link. Thanks philbot!]

Davis Square Task Force meets Wed 12/6, 7 pm

[ron_newman]

Here's the agenda for the next Davis Square Task Force meeting, this Wednesday, December 6, 7-9pm at 167 Holland St.

7:00-7:10 - Intros & pick note taker

7:10-7:25 - DARBI Update (Davis Area Resident-Business Initiative)

7:25-7:40 - Somerville Theater Liquor License proposal

7:40-8 -Davis Sq updates: Buena Vista parking lot, Enterprise rent a car lot, Sacco's and Someday, other development
New benches, bike racks

8-8:30 - Lee Auspitz overlay district proposal

8:30-8:45 - Other items, next meeting

If you have any changes or additions to this list, please contact Alderman Rebekah
Gewirtz or Chris Daveta or Alice Martin in the Office of Strategic Planning
and Community Development.

soil testing in Davis

[loravarnion.livejournal.com]

I just harvested a bunch of beautiful potatoes grown in my back yard on Kidder Ave. I have not done any soil testing, so I don't know whether I should consider the products of my garden, particularly potatoes, safe to eat.

Are there any gardeners in the Davis area who have done soil testing? If so, who did you contact to do it, and what were the results?