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Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: boxing trainer Freddie Roach.
Freddie Roach joined Into the Night with Tony Bruno to talk about Manny Pacquiao's upcoming fight against Antonio Margarito, whether or not he will inspect Margarito's gloves, whether or not he thinks a fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao will happen, and how long Pacquiao will remain fighting for.
On whether or not he was surprised Antonio Margarito was cleared:
"There were some other states out there that were willing to give him a license and so forth. Nevada really didn't turn him down. They said they would make a decision after he applies in California. I knew someone was going to take this fight because the economy is bad all over the world. Let's face it, this is gonna generate a lot of attention and a lot of money to where it goes and Dallas was smart enough to do it."
On whether or not someone will inspect Margarito's gloves:
"Of course and that will be me. If he was loaded in the (Miguel) Cotto fight I blame the Cotto camp for not doing their job. Let's face it, you have that right when you're in a world title fight. You watch him wrap, put his hands in his gloves, and make sure it's up to par. No one would get away with that with me anyway because I don't trust anyone in this sport. The thing is, even when I checked Oscar De La Hoya's wraps and then I put my hands inside his gloves, his trainer was like 'what are you doing?' I said checking my gloves. They said 'you don't trust Oscar?' I said again I'm doing my job. I don't trust anybody and I don't take anything for granted."
On why he thinks Mayweather won't fight Pacquiao:
"I think he just wants that zero on his record. As long as he's undefeated he can argue and say he's the best fighter ever, he's as good as Sugar Ray Robinson and so forth, and he can make that argument as long as he doesn't have that loss on his record. I think it's more important for him to stay undefeated than fight the best guy out there. It's a shame and I hope the fight will happen but I'm worried about that because the only thing that can get him motivated is money and they offered him 40 million dollars. If that's not enough money I don't know what is."
On whether or not Pacquiao will remain driven to fight even though he is 31 and is now a congressman in the Philippines:
"He really is driven. He trains harder now than when he first started off because he doesn't want to disappoint his countrymen, he wants to win for his country, put the Philippines on the map, and his work ethic is better now than it was when I first got him. He trains like an animal and the only thing that changed lately is his name. He's going to be congressman Manny Pacquiao, but he still knows what he does best and that's fight. And that's what he's going to be on November 13th."
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Volume 19 Issue 15 | August 25 - 31, 2006
Wins small and big on Parker project
Last week, the City Council approved a plan to allow 150-foot towers on four north Tribeca blocks along West St. Since the city and the developer of one of the blocks had already agreed to come down significantly on height, the key question was bulk, better known in the zoning-jargon world as F.A.R., or floor-to-area ratio. On this important point the community, with Councilmember Alan Gerson as their advocate, won only a small victory.
On the most critical section West St., along the waterfront Gerson and residents negotiated a 6.25 F.A.R., down from 6.5, a far cry from their demands for a modest F.A.R. of 5. Anyone curious as to how bulky and ugly a 6.5 F.A.R. building can be, need only walk a few blocks up to Morton St. and take a look at the Morton Square project on West St.
We hope the Jack Parker Corporation, the developer behind the application, hires architects to come up with buildings that enhance rather than block the waterfront and allow light into the neighborhood. The same goes for Parkers West St. neighbors when they undoubtedly come forward with their own development plans for the newly zoned swath, which stretches from West St. to Washington St. between Watts and Hubert Sts.
The zoning change allows residential uses, the most economically viable and perhaps only realistic way to develop the neighborhood. Similar changes in 1995 paved the way to making south Tribeca the vibrant neighborhood it is today.
We would have liked to see a better plan for these four blocks, but it is a whole lot better than Parkers original idea for 200-foot-tall towers with a massive F.A.R. of 7 on the waterfront. Perhaps Gerson could have pressed City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to demand a lower F.A.R., but her support of the community was uncertain.
Were most disappointed in Quinn. Morton Square, after all, is in her district and she knows full well the complaints of Village preservationists and neighbors about this and other West St. buildings. Had Quinn backed Gerson fully, it would have strengthened his bargaining hand and wed have a better plan today.
There are clear wins, too. The street wall along West St. dropped down from 85 feet to 65 feet. This will mean the 150-foot buildings will block less light and seem lower because each buildings first setback will be lower. Also, the F.A.R. on Washington St. came down to 5.5 from 6.
The street wall and height limits have implications beyond this four-block swath. When Community Board 1 sits down with the Department of City Planning in the coming months to rezone the rest of north Tribeca, the Parker site will set a precedent, laying the groundwork for human-scale development.
The process is worrisome. City Planning stalled discussions with C.B. 1 to rezone the entire neighborhood including the Parker site and appeared to rush through a private developers application instead, despite cries from residents to study the impact on the neighborhood.
As discussions resume for the rest of north Tribeca, we are glad the precedent wont be new 200-foot buildings on West St. We have an organized alliance of local groups and an active community board to thank for that, and hopefully a receptive Department of City Planning. We hope this dialogue leads to a strong plan for the rezoning of the rest of north Tribeca.
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Meet Results: Carthage Private College Invite
KENOSHA, Wis. - The Concordia University Wisconsin men's and women's track & field teams turned in some solid performances in their first indoor meet of the season on Saturday, as they participated in the Carthage Private College Invite inside Carthage College's Tarble Athletic Center.
North Central College (Ill.) took first place on the men's side with 179 points, and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee won the women's competition with 162.5 points.
The Falcon men finished in 10th with 19 points, while the women's team placed 11th while scoring nine points.
On the men's side, senior Justin Rogers (Milwaukee, Wis.) placed third overall in the 55m Dash, posting a team-best time of 6.66 seconds. He also placed sixth overall in the Triple Jump, with a mark of 13.06 meters.
Sophomores Sean Pawlak (Germantown, Wis.) and Martin Hinze (Bourbonnais, Ill.) also impressed for the Falcon men, as Pawlak finished fourth overall in the 400m Dash with a time of 52.02 seconds, while Hinze placed ninth overall in the 800m Run with a time of 2:01.95.
For the women, sophomore Alexandra Garcia (West Allis, Wis.) finished ninth overall in the 55m Dash with a time of 8.01 seconds, while sophomore Jessica Henning (Springfield, Ill.) finished eighth in the 200m Dash at 28.96 seconds.
Both CUW teams will be back in action on Saturday, when they travel to Whitewater, Wis. to compete in the Rocky Rococo Invite. The meet is slated to start at 10 am.


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James Ihedigbo knows what it is like to be overlooked and underestimated.
He was lightly recruited, undrafted and cast aside by two NFL teams before landing with the Ravens.
He entered camp as the starting strong safety, but outsiders assumed it would be only a matter of time until it belonged to first-round draft pick Matt Elam.
Ihedigbo had other plans — not just to keep the job, but to stand out on a defense full of stars.
"I knew I was a proven starter in this league," Ihedigbo said. "I just needed to showcase my talent, show people that they weren't just putting me in there [as a placeholder], that I was more than qualified to play the position."
After bouncing around the NFL for a couple of years and surviving another training camp competition, Ihedigbo is thriving as a starter for the Ravens. The 29-year-old is providing sound coverage, reliable tackling and leadership for a younger group of defensive backs that lost a pair of veteran mentors in Ed Reed and Bernard Pollard this past offseason.
"James has been kind of the glue back there," coach John Harbaugh said.
Fighting to keep a dream alive is nothing new for him or for the Ihedigbo family. Decades before, Ihedigbo learned about perseverance and the power of faith from his parents.
The American Dream
The Ihedigbos, Apollos and Rose, left Nigeria and came to the United States in 1979, settling in Amherst, Mass. Two of their five children were born there, including their youngest son, James.
When James was a boy, his mother watched in wonder as a small army of children in helmets and shoulder pads pumped their little legs all over a football field. Rose didn't know much about American football, but she excitedly signed up all four of her boys for Pop Warner.
"It was such a thing that we had not seen in Nigeria," Rose Ihedigbo said.
Rose and Apollos did not have much money. They wore secondhand clothes. They collected, washed and sold empty bottles and cans that college kids left behind. They worked extra jobs while raising their family and attending school.
James Ihedigbo's father, who died in 2002, and mother both earned doctoral degrees at Massachusetts — where James would eventually go — worked in education and opened a small technical and agricultural college in Nigeria that is still in operation.
"I see that if my parents accomplished that, then there is no reason that I can't accomplish what I set out to do growing up here in the United States with the resources that I have and the people I have around me and the spiritual foundation that they laid out in front of me," said Ihedigbo, whose HOPE Africa foundation provides financial aid to students of African descent.
"That's kind of my mindset."
Don Brown likes to tell a story about a young James Ihedigbo.
During a UMass practice, Brown stood in the defensive backfield, watching a drill. Ihedigbo, streaking through the secondary, did not see the coach as he tracked a pass.
"He hits me right in the face. I mean, blows me up," said Brown, a former Maryland defensive coordinator who now holds the same job at Boston College. "I'm bleeding. I'm staggering around. The trainer is putting cotton in my nose and putting my whistle back around my neck. [Ihedigbo] was just 100 miles per hour at all times, and that probably signifies his career."
Brown says Ihedigbo is one of his favorite players — and one of the smartest — he has coached. Brown was hired before Ihedigbo's sophomore year and used Ihedigbo, a hometown kid who was a walk-on, all over the field, often deploying him as a blitzer.
"He just became a dominant player for us," Brown said. "Not having that scholarship may be one of the things that has driven him his whole athletic career."
Finding his home
After being a consensus All-American his senior season, Ihedigbo was not drafted. He had to try out for the New York Jets before they signed him as a rookie free agent.
He spent four years with the Jets, playing in two AFC championship games, before signing with the New England Patriots in 2011 when the Jets chose to keep safeties Eric Smith and Brodney Pool over Ihedigbo.
He started 12 games for the Patriots and every playoff game during their run to the Super Bowl, but they released him after the 2012 preseason. He took that personally at first but is at peace now.
"I didn't feel at home there," Ihedigbo said. "And they wanted to move on in a different direction. So it worked out perfectly. I'm here with the Ravens and I feel at home. I feel like this is exactly where I'm supposed to be."
Ihedigbo never thought of quitting. He knew he had a lot of football left in him and that he would wind up somewhere.
The Ravens signed him in September 2012. He started three games for the injured Pollard. But his primary role was on special teams, which got him on the field for the final play of Super Bowl XLVII.
"Winning the Super Bowl kind of brought everything together for him, for me and for the family," said Rose Ihedigbo, who recently published a book, "Sandals in the Snow," about the family's journey. "Throughout his career, he has been underestimated and under-graded. He was not recruited. He was not drafted. And he continued on. Finally, getting that victory with the Ravens and him having that Super Bowl ring, it's amazing."
This season, he has been a steady presence in a secondary that is still bonding.
Defensive coordinator Dean Pees raves about how Ihedigbo explains concepts to his teammates in the meeting room. Elam, the team's starting free safety, says the wisdom Ihedigbo imparts is helping him find his way as a rookie. Cornerback Lardarius Webb calls him "the captain back there."
"He's big, not just on the field," Webb said. "He's big by being a leader, by being that voice, being that motivational guy. That's him."
The football analytics website Pro Football Focus has graded Ihedigbo the highest among Ravens defenders through four games. He is tied for fourth on the team with 23 tackles, including two for loss. He has defended three passes and has one quarterback hit.
After years of being underestimated, Ihedigbo is now making it hard to overlook his impact. His next opportunity to prove his worth comes Sunday, when the Ravens (2-2) travel to play the Miami Dolphins (3-1).
"I'm a firm believer in my faith, and I believe that what God has set in stone, no man can change," Ihedigbo said. "That's something that has been throughout my career. ... I knew what it was going to take to be a starter. … That was my goal. Earn that starting job so everyone understands why you're [playing]."


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Ruby/GdkPixbuf2 is a Ruby binding for GdkPixbuf2.
WWW: http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/
No installation instructions: this port has been deleted.
The package name of this deleted port was: ruby19-gdk_pixbuf2
PKGNAME: ruby19-gdk_pixbuf2
distinfo: There is no distinfo for this port.
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
This port is required by:
No options to configure
Number of commits found: 44
2014-03-23 accessibility/ruby-atk: Use rubygem-atk instead
2014-03-23 devel/ruby-gio2: Use rubygem-gio2 instead
2014-03-23 devel/ruby-glib2: Use rubygem-glib2 instead
2014-03-23 graphics/ruby-cairo: Use rubygem-cairo instead
2014-03-23 graphics/ruby-gdk_pixbuf2: Use rubygem-gdk_pixbuf2 instead
2014-03-23 graphics/ruby-rsvg2: Use rubygem-rsvg2 instead
2014-03-23 x11-toolkits/ruby-goocanvas: No longer included upstream
2014-03-23 x11-toolkits/ruby-gstreamer: Use rubygem-gstreamer instead
2014-03-23 x11-toolkits/ruby-gtk2: Use rubygem-gtk2 instead
2014-03-23 x11-toolkits/ruby-gtksourceview2: Use rubygem-gtksourceview2 instead
2014-03-23 x11-toolkits/ruby-pango: Use rubygem-pango instead
2014-03-23 x11-toolkits/ruby-poppler: Use rubygem-poppler instead
2014-03-23 x11-toolkits/ruby-vte: Use rubygem-vte instead
2014-03-23 x11/ruby-gnome2: Use rubygem-gnome2 instead
- Mark as broken with Ruby 2.0 and 2.1
- Mark deprecated in favor of rubygem- versions
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
- Convert ruby-gnome ports to proper master/slave setup
Reviewed by: gjb
- Update ruby-gnome2 ports to 1.1.4
- Update ruby-gnome ports to 1.1.3
PR: ports/168435
Submitted by: Makoto Kishimoto <email@example.com>
- update png to 1.5.10
- Update ruby-gnome2 to 1.0.3
PR: ports/162139
Submitted by: TAKATSU Tomonari <email@example.com> (based on)
Feature safe: yes
- Fix PLIST issues with RUBY_VER == 1.9
Clean up ruby pkg-plists:
Above directories are owned by lang/ruby1[89] ports.
PR: ports/153041
Tested by: 2-exp runs by pav
With Hat: ruby@
- Update to 0.90.5
- create ports for vte, gstreamer, gtksourceview2, poppler and goocanvas modules
- sort depends in meta port
- remove patch to ruby-gtk2 that's merged upstream
- remove old gtksourceview module which seems broken
Submitted by: swills (myself)
Approved by: wxs (mentor)
- Update to 0.90.2
- Add dependency on rubygem-pkg-config
Submitted by: me (swills)
Approved by: pgollucci (mentor)
- Update ruby-gnome ports to 0.19.4
Approved by: wxs (co-mentor)
Reviewed by: kwm (gnome@)
- update to 1.4.1
Reviewed by: exp8 run on pointyhat
Supported by: miwi
- update to jpeg-8
- bump all port that indirectly depends on libjpeg and have not yet been bumped
or updated
Requested by: edwin
- Assign all unmaintained ruby ports to ruby@,
so people will know where to send questions to.
Release these ports into wild. I don't have time for these ports anymore. I am
keeping maintain two ports that don't require a lot of time to take care of.
- Update to 0.16.0.20080706, it's more than 0.17 RC1.
in the *_DEPENDS, that way it will finding correct file when I tweak the
- NOPORTDOCS -> NOPORTEXAMPLES on example/demo/test files.
Bump portrevision due to upgrade of devel/gettext.
The affected ports are the ones with gettext as a run-dependency
according to ports/INDEX-7 (5007 of them) and the ones with USE_GETTEXT
in Makefile (29 of them).
PR: ports/124340
Submitted by: edwin@
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
Update to 0.16.0.20080315 (SVN version) to build with new glib 2.16.
- Welcome X.org 7.2 \o/.
- Set X11BASE to ${LOCALBASE} for recent ${OSVERSION}.
- Bump PORTREVISION for ports intalling files in ${X11BASE}.
- Update to 0.16.0.
- More on PREFIX-cleaness.
- Remove databases/ruby-libgda and multimedia/ruby-gst, these ports are no
longer in the tarball and have been dropped support by the developers.
- Update to current snapshot (should fix compatiblity problems with the new
- PREFIX-cleaness
Approved by: mezz (maintainer, implicitly)
-Remove USE_REINPLACE.
- Update to 0.14.0, see release note for details:
- Two new ports have been added, ruby-cairo and ruby-gtkmozembed.
- databases/ruby-libgda has been mark as BROKEN, because it still needs to
catch up w/ new libgda-2.0, so remove it from ruby-gnome2-all.
Update to 0.13.0, see release note for detail:
-Update to 0.12.0, works with GTK 2.6/GNOME 2.10.
-A few clean up such as correct paths, dependencies and etc.
Update to 0.11.0. Three new ports (Ruby/RSVG, Ruby/GnomePrint and
Ruby/GnomePrintUI) will be add in ruby-gnome2-all later when I am done with
create and test with those new ports tonight or tomorrow.
Bump PORTREVISIONS for all ports that depend on atk or pango to ease in the
big upgrade.
Update to 0.10.1, this fixed some serious bugs of 0.10.0.
- Ruby/GTK: Fix compiling error under GTK+-2.0.x.
- Ruby/GtkSourceView: Fix compiling error.
- Ruby/GdkPixbuf: Fix some bugs.
- Update to 0.10.0.
- Un-broke/enable multimedia/ruby-gst; it works with current gstreamer now.
- Change some that have CP to INSTALL_*.
- Few small clean up.
BTW: ruby-gtksourceview and ruby-panelapplet will be add very soon when I
create and test them. They are going to be part of ruby-gnome2-all meta
Change my email to email@example.com.
Approved by: adamw (mentor)
- Update the Ruby/GNOME2 suite to 0.9.1.
- Update the WWW lines.
- Hand the maintainership over to the submitter. (great!)
- multimedia/ruby-gst is currently broken because of gstreamer 0.8's
API/ABI change.
PR: ports/65270
Submitted by: Jeremy Messenger <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Chase the glib20 update, and bump all affected ports' PORTREVISIONs.
- Convert to USE_GNOME
PR: ports/59744
Submitted by: Mezz <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Approved by: maintainer timeout (3 months)
Bump PORTREVISION on all ports that depend on gettext to aid with upgrading.
(Part 2)
Update the Ruby/GNOME2 suite to 0.8.0.
Mark BROKEN (see bento logs). These ports are scheduled for removal
after Feb 2 2004 if they are still broken at that time and no fixes
have been submitted by PR.
Bump PORTREVISION for the last change, just in case.
Increase gdk_pixbuf's shlib version by 200 to match what
x11-toolkits/gtk20 now installs.
Submitted by: Franz Klammer <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Update the Ruby/GNOME2 suite to 0.3.0.
Add ruby-pango, a Ruby binding for Pango.
Import Ruby/GNOME2 0.1 ports.
Newly added are devel/ruby-glib2 and graphics/ruby-gnomecanvas2, the
rest are updated after repocopy.
Approved by: portmgr (implicitly)
Servers and bandwidth provided byNew York Internet, SuperNews, and RootBSD
14 vulnerabilities affecting 198 ports have been reported in the past 14 days
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All vulnerabilities
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User pages
Please move your user page RichardvanderLuit to User:Nippur as per Fedora Wiki guidelines. --Ian Weller 02:59, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
> Soz, Ian, but I am confused here now
The Translation-Quick-Start-Guide clearly states:
| 2.9. Introducing Yourself
Once you have edit access on the wiki, create a personal page. at a URL like this: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FirstnameLastname/. This is very useful for Fedora contributors to get to know and contact each other.
Since i have gotten wiki edit access by signing up at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ with username nippur, i log in at the wiki as nippur, and have made a personal page as stated in 2.9 of the TQSG. Please inform me what Fedora Wiki guidelines you refer to. -Richard 13:24 19.01.2009 (GMT +1)
- I responded to your email and pointed you to Help:Editing#Introduce_yourself. I'll submit a bug against the TQSG. --Ian Weller 15:34, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
- moved my page to User:Nippur and added your note in the dutch translation of Help:Editing#Introduce_yourself
- tyvm Richard 16:43 19.01.2009 (GMT +1)


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The reception will take place Sunday, February 23 in the Engineering Centers Building, Tong Auditorium, from 3:00 - 5:00 pm. Refreshments will be served.
The program is quite simple: After short remarks by first Director of the UW-Friends Dr. Jiang Yong, Center for East Asian Studies Associate Director Dr. Richard Miller, and one or two special guests, you will have an opportunity to meet and mingle with other like-minded friends of the UW. We ask that you answer a short questionnaire at the reception to help guide the future development of the UW-Friends, and we encourage you to tell your colleagues about this reception. Please let us know if you are coming, though, so we can organize adequate refreshments—please send your response via email to email@example.com or contact with Jiang Yong or Wei Jing by Friday, February 21.
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(a) Grants to increase resources for community water fluoridation
(1) In general
The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may make grants to States and Indian tribes for the purpose of increasing the resources available for community water fluoridation.
(2) Use of funds
A State shall use amounts provided under a grant under paragraph (1)—
(b) Community water fluoridation
(1) In general
The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and in collaboration with the Director of the Indian Health Service, shall establish a demonstration project that is designed to assist rural water systems in successfully implementing the water fluoridation guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that are entitled "Engineering and Administrative Recommendations for Water Fluoridation, 1995" (referred to in this subsection as the "EARWF").
(2) Requirements
(A) Collaboration
In collaborating under paragraph (1), the Directors referred to in such paragraph shall ensure that technical assistance and training are provided to tribal programs located in each of the 12 areas of the Indian Health Service. The Director of the Indian Health Service shall provide coordination and administrative support to tribes under this section.
(B) General use of funds
Amounts made available under paragraph (1) shall be used to assist small water systems in improving the effectiveness of water fluoridation and to meet the recommendations of the EARWF.
(C) Fluoridation specialists
(i) In general In carrying out this subsection, the Secretary shall provide for the establishment of fluoridation specialist engineering positions in each of the Dental Clinical and Preventive Support Centers through which technical assistance and training will be provided to tribal water operators, tribal utility operators and other Indian Health Service personnel working directly with fluoridation projects.
(ii) Liaison A fluoridation specialist shall serve as the principal technical liaison between the Indian Health Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with respect to engineering and fluoridation issues.
(D) Implementation
The project established under this subsection shall be planned, implemented and evaluated over the 5-year period beginning on the date on which funds are appropriated under this section and shall be designed to serve as a model for improving the effectiveness of water fluoridation systems of small rural communities.
(3) Evaluation
In conducting the ongoing evaluation as provided for in paragraph (2)(D), the Secretary shall ensure that such evaluation includes—
(A) the measurement of changes in water fluoridation compliance levels resulting from assistance provided under this section;
(B) the identification of the administrative, technical and operational challenges that are unique to the fluoridation of small water systems;
(C) the development of a practical model that may be easily utilized by other tribal, State, county or local governments in improving the quality of water fluoridation with emphasis on small water systems; and
(c) School-based dental sealant program
(1) In general
The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and in collaboration with the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, shall award a grant to each of the 50 States and territories and to Indians, Indian tribes, tribal organizations and urban Indian organizations (as such terms are defined in section 1603 of title 25) to provide for the development of school-based dental sealant programs to improve the access of children to sealants.
(2) Use of funds
A State shall use amounts received under a grant under paragraph (1) to provide funds to eligible school-based entities or to public elementary or secondary schools to enable such entities or schools to provide children with access to dental care and dental sealant services. Such services shall be provided by licensed dental health professionals in accordance with State practice licensing laws.
(3) Eligibility
To be eligible to receive funds under paragraph (1), an entity shall—
(A) prepare and submit to the State an application at such time, in such manner and containing such information as the State may require; and
(B) be a public elementary or secondary school—
(i) that is located in an urban area in which and [1] more than 50 percent of the student population is participating in Federal or State free or reduced meal programs; or
(d) Oral health infrastructure
(1) Cooperative agreements
The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall enter into cooperative agreements with State, territorial, and Indian tribes or tribal organizations (as those terms are defined in section 1603 of title 25) to establish oral health leadership and program guidance, oral health data collection and interpretation, [2] (including determinants of poor oral health among vulnerable populations), a multi-dimensional delivery system for oral health, and to implement science-based programs (including dental sealants and community water fluoridation) to improve oral health.
(e) Definitions
(f) Authorization of appropriations
For the purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2001 through 2005.
[1] So in original. The word "and" probably should not appear.
[2] So in original. The comma probably should not appear.
[3] See References in Text note below.
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Man accused of driving lawn mower on highway while drunk
Man accused of driving lawn mower on highway while drunk
Port Saint Lucie, Fla. —
A Florida man is facing a DUI charge after an officer allegedly caught him riding a red Snapper lawn mower on an access road.
The man, identified by the Palm Beach Post as Kenneth Alleshouse, 56, was pulled over by Port St. Lucie police in the 10400 block of U.S. Highway 1.
Alleshouse was carrying a case of Budweiser and smelled strongly of alcohol, according to police.
A DUI investigation revealed the man's blood alcohol content was more than three times the legal limit.
Allshouse was arrested for DUI and taken to the St. Lucie County Jail.


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RECORDS: St. Bonaventure 3-0, Fairfield 2-1
SKINNY: Ashley Zahan leads the Bonnies at 9.7 points a game while Doris Ortega averages 9.3 points and 7.0 rebounds. ... Katelyn Linney led the Stags with 17 points in a 54-45 victory at Butler on Saturday. Linney leads the Stags with 14.3 points a game.
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|System: PS3
|Review Rating Legend
|Dev: Team Ninja
|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: Tecmo
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: July 3, 2007
|2.5 - 2.9 = Average
|5.0 = The Best
|Players: 1
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|ESRB Rating: Mature
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by Amanda L. Kondolojy
July 9, 2007 - Almost 2 years ago, the first Ninja Gaiden game came out for the Xbox, and was hailed as an instant classic. Action-packed gameplay, a thoughtful storyline, and not to mention some amazing visuals made the game a must-play on the original Xbox.
Unfortunately, I was never able to play the original Ninja Gaiden. But I had heard such wonderful things about it that when Ninja Gaiden Sigma came out, I was thoroughly pumped. And once I popped it into my PlayStation 3, I have to say that I was taken aback by the spectacle that I found myself in. Did I deserve all this excellent Ninja-yumminess? Well, apparently Ninja Gaiden Sigma was what I got for being such a good gamer girl for half a year!
There's just so much to love about this game. I suppose it's only appropriate to begin with the story. The game starts you off by putting you through some grueling ninja training. However, once you finally pass your test and make your way to the resident Ninja Master, you learn that rogue Samurai have invaded your hometown. As you search through the town, however, you find that these were not just Samurai, but an ancient race of Badguys known as fiends. And to make things worse, they have your family's sword!
And it gets better from there! But in the spirit of keeping this review mostly spoiler-free I'll stop there. One new addition in this version of the game is the addition of femme-fatale Rachel as a playable character. Although her mechanics are a little different than Ryu's and take a little getting used to, it's still pretty awesome playing as the blonde bombshell. Course I'm a little partial to Ryu still, but I might let that pass for now
Controls for your characters are pretty easy to pick up, and of course, difficult to master. You'll be able to unlock combos and special moves as you progress, and surprisingly, there's not too much button-mashing involved. Special moves are simplistic, but deliver on the devastating damage that I know you crave. This is especially exciting to me because I've been in all too many situations in a game where mashing out the right 10 button sequence would mean killing that ultra-hard boss, but I ended up being the one biting the dust because I just didn't have that immediate coordination. So the simplistic combo structure is a big improvement in my book.
However, I did have one qualm with the control scheme. You see there's this really cool Ninpo (Ninja Magic) that you can use in the game, but you need to do a two-button smash to activate it, and then you have to shake the PS3 controller to make it useful. While this doesn't sound annoying perhaps as you're reading it, trust me it is very annoying, and more often then not you'll opt to just use your katana. And there's nothing wrong with going back to old faithful, because a ninja's creed is forged by the sword.
Now to the part where this game really outshines it's predecessor. The visuals. They are absolutely beautiful. If your jaw doesn't drop at some point during this game, there may be something wrong with your vision. It is intricately detailed, and has breathtaking landscapes. Plus your characters look wonderful. You'll be able to see every muscle and curvature in your character's body during gameplay and you'll be privy to a virtual feast for the eyes anytime there's a cutscene. I just can't stop raving about how beautiful this game looks. The only game that I've ever seen that could rival this one is Assassin's Creed. And it's not even out yet!
Sound in this game is also exceptional. The score is a delight to listen to and really fits the mood and action going on in the game. It's also extremely varied, so you won't be hearing the same couple bars over and over. It's definitely an experience in itself, and I have to say that I am more than pleased with the score. The voice acting isn't quite up to snuff to really be classified as exceptional, but it passes the bar, so there are no complaints here. All your badguys have different voices and different sounds that they make, so it's not too bad, but I feel that the voicework done on the main characters could have been done a little better. But as I said earlier, there's no real complaints, so I'll just take it as it comes.
Overall, if you buy one Ninja game this year, make it Ninja Gaiden Sigma. I know there's lots to choose from out there, but trust me, this one delivers. It's got satisfying gameplay, wonderful music, and some uber-amazing visuals. And you'll have lots of fun. I can almost guarantee it. If not, then you may be allergic to ninja fun. And that's something to get looked at!
Amanda L. Kondolojy
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As the latest results from the British Trust for Ornithology's (BTO) Garden BirdWatch, which includes date from Derbyshire, reveal, much of our garden wildlife has got going extraordinarily early this year.
Results from this weekly survey make interesting reading and highlight that some species became active a month earlier than was the case last year, when snow and cold delayed the start of spring.
Common Frog - John Harding/BTOWe often see the appearance of certain species as a sign that winter is over. However, due to the unseasonably mild temperatures of earlier this year, people were reporting some species to the BTO's weekly Garden BirdWatch survey much earlier than expected, and well before spring had truly sprung.
One species that was seen far earlier in the year than is usual was the Hedgehog, the first individuals of which were being reported during late February, almost a month earlier than was the case in 2013, and up to two weeks earlier than in any of the last five years.
In contrast, amphibians, such as Common Frog and Smooth Newt, were not seen earlier than usual, but there appeared to be something of a mass emergence, with a surge in reports from participants' gardens. From early March, both species were seen in more Garden BirdWatch gardens than they have been for the last five years.
It was butterflies, however, that demonstrated the most dramatic patterns of emergence. Small Tortoiseshells not only came out of hibernation a couple of weeks early, they were also seen in incredible numbers compared to previous years, with 23% of Garden BirdWatch gardens reporting them. In comparison, the previous highest emergence peak was 12% in 2012. Brimstone also had a very good start to the year. The first few individuals were not seen much earlier this year than in previous years but the peak emergence in 2013 was just 4% compared to 21% of gardens reporting them in March this year.
Clare Simm, from the Garden BirdWatch team, commented: "As you can see, Garden BirdWatch is not just about birds. Our volunteers provide us with vital information on other taxa too, helping us to understand how important gardens are as a habitat for all wildlife. It's too early to tell how the early emergence of these species will affect them, but it is an exciting contrast to the patterns of emergence that we saw last year."


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With the final month of the regular season underway, realities are sinking in, playoff bubbles are bursting, and playoffs droughts are ending (I hope...). For teams like Florida, Tampa, Calgary, and Colorado, the 2013 draft couldn't come soon enough.
Speaking of the draft, I try to make it a regular routine to do some reading and podcast-listening on prospects over the weekend. In browsing some of the new projected rankings for the upcoming draft in New Jersey, I came across TSN's archive of Bob McKenzie's draft projections for the past 9 drafts. His methodology involves an annual survey of NHL scouts, asking them which players they think will be taken in the first round. The final rankings are then determined by a consensus of opinion, and does not consider the order of teams, or team needs.
|"86%, bitches..."
In other words, TSN and I are usually two different definitions of accuracy. In McKenzie's case, of the 30 names he projects as first rounders, usually 86% of those names end up being picked in the first round. The accuracy I'm trying to get at is to see by how much the projections vary in their final position on the board. For those of you who are familiar with rudimentary statistics, what I'm basically looking at is the standard deviation of the projections at each position.
*(Ignore the next paragraph is you're already familiar with standard deviation)*
I don't intend for this to be a stats lesson but briefly, what standard deviation shows is how much variation exists from the mean, or average. For the mean, I took the average of the eventual pick position for each projection. Finally, to determine the standard deviation, I squared the cumulative differences between the actual draft positions and the mean, divided the squared cumulative differences by the sample (9 drafts), and found the square root of that. All you need to know is that a high standard deviation indicates that the data points (actual draft position) are spread out over a large range from the mean (projection), and a low standard deviation indicates that the data points tend to be close to the mean.
First, let's take a look at how McKenzie has fared. As the chart below indicates, over time, more and more of his projections have ended up as first rounders. In 2012, he matched his highest accuracy rates (90%) from the 2008 and 2009 drafts. On the other hand, the two years prior to that , 2010 and 2011, have been below average (84%), but not by much.
The chart below shows the standard deviation of each projection, at every position from 1-30. Assuming a normal distribution (bell curve ring any bells..?), the way to read this is, for example, 68% of the eventual positions of the projected 10th overall pick usually land +/- 4.6 spots from the projected position.
What's interesting about the chart is that up until the 20th overall pick, deviations from the projections remain in a pretty tight band, ranging from 0 (1st overall) to 7.6. (20th overall). After that, things gets a little wacky and eventual picks deviate big time from their projections. Assuming the Leafs do not capture a division title, or the Stanley Cup this year (playoffs, sure - but let's be realistic), Nonis and Co. could be looking at a first round pick ranging from 14th-24th overall. Luckily for Leaf fans, the deviation from 14th-24th also happens to be lower, on average, than from 25th-30th. However, I'm willing to bet that no matter which pick the Leafs end up with, the TSN projection at that position will likely not be the name Nonis calls out at the Prudential Center this summer.
If you fancy yourself a draft prognosticator, or want to see how you fair against the insider of all insiders, feel free to use this as a benchmark of sorts for your own projections.
As always, feel free to leave any comments or questions below or hit me up on Twitter (@Mapleleafmuse)


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Financial Samurai's Bio
Over 10 years of work experience in the finance sector with an MBA focusing on real estate and entrepreneurship. Received an "A" in Mrs. Arnold's high school AP English class.
After 10 years in finance, I thought I had it made. A six figure job, a real estate portfolio, company stock, and a savings/emergency fund that would last me 3 years if I ever became unemployed. I did everything the personal finance books taught us to do and I still ended up losing 35% of my net worth in 2008-2009 due to the economic meltdown. The financial downturn has motivated me to share my experiences to not only help others, but to keep myself honest in my spending habits.
My first job ever was at McDonald's for $3.12/cents an hour. I was responsible for opening up the store at 6am every weekend for several months. The job was horrible, and we had a power hungry manager who scolded us for speaking Spanish and not English in front of customers. At least I got a "B" in Spanish. I remember trying to make 9 Egg McMuffins at a time for 3 straight hours, adeptly cracking eggs left and right with one hand. It was hot, and oh the pressure was immense. Things weren't all bad though. Afterall, we could eat as many hot apple pies we wanted.
My parents never bought me anything too expensive growing up. They were frugal and made an average middle income salary working for the government. I never had a camera or a Nintendo console, but I did enjoy playing tennis with my father and listening to my mother talk about religion. The most expensive gift I ever got was a 1987 Honda Civic with 140,000 miles for $1,800 bucks after doing well in HS. I'm truly thankful for this gift and drove it until I graduated college.
I had a choice between private school or public school for college, and I chose public school. There was no way I could feel comfortable allowing my parents to pay $25,000 a year in tuition alone, when there were plenty of top quality public schools for only $5,000 a year. Besides, I planned to pay back my parents and couldn't stomach that type of debt. The $30 a day I made at McDonald's had a more profound impact on me than I realized!
My father introduced me to the stock market in college. Through stocks, suddenly I could make much more money than through working at the library at now $4.5 an hour. Little did I know, that I could lose an infinite amount more money though! The taste of success came when I bought 500 shares of Books A Million (BAM, a now defunct Book Seller). The stock went up 25%, and I made $550 in 1 hour. From that trade on, I knew I wanted to do something in finance, where anybody with enough guts could make as much money as they wanted.
When I first entered the work force, things were explosively recovering from the 1997 Asian & Russian financial crisis. I got lucky and purchased a particular internet stock (VCSY) for $3,000. It shot up to $150,000 in three months and I sold, not at the peak of $180,000, but close enough.
Flush with cash in my early 20's, I went kind of nuts, buying a motorcycle and a very fancy car. I'd eat at the fanciest restaurants in NYC and went on lavish vacations. When I changed jobs for a better opportunity, I finally woke up to the realization that I was just flushing my good fortune down the drain. I started to get serious about my finances. In early 2003, I sold my $80,000 car and used the proceeds along with the rest of the money left to buy my first 2/2 condo in a prime location in a big city. It is now renting out for positive net income, and I plan to pay it off within 8 years.
Despite this initial taste of success, I've made so many personal finance blunders in my 20's, it wouldn't be right not to share with you the errors in hopes you don't do the same. Hopefully, through Financial Samurai, we will never have to say "if I knew then what I know now" as it relates to personal finance again.
Retiring by 45 is a "see if I can do it goal." I actually really enjoy my job, but I think I'll enjoy it more if I didn't need to work! What's the fun and challenge of choosing to retire at 65? Like studying for an exam, people tend to cram the week before. I want to cram now. Essentially, I believe that if you can work for 20 years in your profession, you will have the power to retire if you want to.
One of my main motivations for writing is to hear from all of you. I hope we can all grow rich together over these next 10 years! Welcome to the journey!
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The word on the street is that the adorable Emma Stone and her man Andrew Garfield have adopted a 2-year-old Golden Retriever. They named him Ren. Totally sweet, right? But fast forward to the day these two break up and there's a custody battle over where Ren is going to live. Not that I want these two to break up ... but they're young and Hollywood and these things happen. Stone and Garfield have only been dating a year, which is sort of a lifetime in Tinseltown, but it's really not that long. You figure you have the beginning months where you are still unsure if you're even exclusive, then you have about the six month mark where you know you are, and this is just six months longer than that.
Perhaps they're rushing into things. We all do it. Doesn't mean we should. To try to avoid bad feelings when the breakup does happen, let's review the things couples rush into way too soon.
- Buying a pet together. Emma and Andrew bought a dog, but this goes for cats, birds, hamsters, snakes, lizards, spiders, and even fish. Hey, some people get really attached to fish. A split could make that sitch painful.
- Saying "I love you." Make sure you mean it. Really, really mean it. Once you say it, there's no going back to not saying it. And then if you don't say it the other person will wonder where they stand and ... complications arise.
- Sleeping over every single night. If your love lasts there will be plenty of time for togetherness every night. Before that, enjoy your time alone. In your own bed. Without anyone to steal the covers.
- Mixing your record collection. You will be fighting over who really owns Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy if the split happens.
- Getting matching tattoos. That's forever stuff.
- Having sex without protection. This is forever stuff, too. Kids are forever and so are some STDs.
- Spilling gossip about your friends. If you tell your guy the dirt on your BFF and then you break up, he's got the dirt on your BFF and will use it to drive a rift between you so he can then sleep with her. Avoid that to avoid that.
- Moving in together. See #3.
- Buying a house together. See #8 and times it by a million and add fights about money.
- Sharing a bank account. More money is more problems, and so is marrying your monies before you are married. Some marrieds don't even share a bank account.
- Sharing passwords. Changing all your passwords after a breakup is annoying. Trust me on that one. Plus you don't want your ex knowing the password to your Facebook account and only realizing it when it too late and he posts a photo of you naked on it as revenge.
- Meeting the parents. Mom and dad don't need to know the guy or girl you are getting it on with. Spare them.
- Meeting the kids. More importantly spare your kids meeting someone who is a newbie/maybe.
What would you add to the list?
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The Effects of Word Learning Biases on Children's Understanding of Angle
Dominic Gibson, Eliza L. Congdon, Susan C. Levine (Co-PI)
University of Chicago
For the archival version of this research, and the preferred citation, see:
- Gibson, D. J., Congdon, E. L., & Levine, S. C. (2015). The effects of word-learning biases on children's concept of angle. Child development, 86(1), 319-326. [DOI]
"Which is the bigger angle?"
Figure 1: An example of the kind of question a student might receive on a standardized math assessment.
On an example like the one in Figure 1, many children select B as the "larger" angle. This relatively common misconception suggests that angle is a difficult concept for students in elementary and even middle school (Clements & Battista, 1996; Mitchelmore & White, 2000). Errors such as this one imply that when students are making judgments about the size of angles, they often use incorrect cues such as the length of an angle's sides or the overall area contained within the angle figure (Clements & Battista, 1989; Lindquist & Kouba, 1989). Perhaps most importantly, we know that this misconception is widespread and not easily overcome despite continued instruction in school (Lehrer, Jenkins, & Osana, 1998).
So where does this kind of error come from? To find a possible explanation, we turned to the research on how children learn the meaning of words. The "whole object bias" describes a phenomenon whereby children tend to interpret a new word as referring to an unfamiliar object as a whole and not to the object's parts or features (Markman & Hutchinson, 1984). For example, if a young child sees a rabbit for the first time, and an adult says, "Look at the rabbit!", the child will tend to assume that "rabbit" refers to the rabbit as a whole, and not its ears or tail or the fact that it has fur. In the case of angle, this would mean that children first map the word "angle" onto the whole angle figure such that the phrase "big angle" means a big angle figure rather than an angle with a large measure of rotation.
In the current study, we hypothesized that children's difficulty with angle does not necessarily stem from something that is inherently difficult about angles, and that word-learning assumptions that typically accelerate vocabulary growth can have surprisingly negative conceptual consequences. To address this hypothesis , we used another word-learning constraint, "mutual exclusivity", which suggests that children are more likely to map a novel label onto a part or property of an object if they already know a separate label for the whole object (Markman, 1989). For example, after learning the word "rabbit" , children tend to assume new labels (e.g. "whiskers") refer to a part of the rabbit. Likewise, if the whole object bias contributes to students' difficulty with angles, providing children with a new label for the overall angle figure (e.g. "toma"), should increase the likelihood that they map "angle" onto the correct dimension of the angle figure.
Thirty 4-5-year-old children (M = 4.86 years; SD =.53) participated in a single session consisting of a pretest, training, and posttest. We chose to test 4-5-year-olds because they have not yet had any formal instruction on angles. On each pretest and posttest trial, children were presented with a card depicting two angles and asked, "Can you show me the bigger angle?" There were three trial types (Figure 2). If children initially judge angle size on the basis of any dimension aside from rotational measure, they should fail to pick the correct answer on Inconsistent trials.
Figure 2: On Consistent trials, the larger of the two angles was also formed by longer lines, on Equal trials both angles were formed by lines of the same length, and on Inconsistent trials, the larger angle was actually formed by shorter lines.
After completing the pretest, participants were randomly assigned to one of two training conditions. Importantly, participants in both conditions were given the same correct description of an angle and the same Inconsistent and Consistent practice trials with instruction and feedback. However, participants in the Experimental condition were given a separate word to refer to the whole angle figure, "toma", and were asked to identify the "bigger toma" on a subset of the training trials. In contrast, training in the Control condition was more analogous to typical classroom training in that no separate figure label was used (Figure 3).
Figure 3: Half of the children received verbal instruction in the Control condition, and half of the children received the Experimental condition. All children saw the same stimuli.
We hypothesized that despite our explanation of the proper referent of "angle", children in the Control condition would struggle to overcome their bias to form a whole-object interpretation of "angle." However, children in the Experimental condition, who first learn that "toma" refers to the whole angle figure, should be more likely to search for alternate meanings of "angle". Therefore, we predicted that children in our Experimental condition would be in a better position to understand and accept the correct meaning of "angle" that was presented during training.
Our analyses aimed to address two questions. First, prior to training, do children make the type of errors commonly found in the education literature; namely do children use line length or overall figure area as a cue for judging angle size? Second, does manipulating the language used to train children on angles affect the likelihood that training is successful? Specifically, does adding a word to refer to the whole angle figure provide children with a basis to determine through mutual exclusivity that "angle" does not refer to the whole figure but rather to a particular feature of the figure?
To address the first question we looked at how children performed at pretest on the three different trial types. We found that participants scored above chance (50%) on Consistent trials and on Equal trials, but below chance on the Inconsistent trials (Figure 4). Participant's failure on Inconsistent trials supported our hypothesis that young children tend rely on line-length or area instead of rotational measure when asked to make judgments about angle size.
Figure 4: On average, children performed significantly above chance on Consistent and Equal trial types and significantly below chance on Inconsistent trial types at pretest.
To see if our two training conditions had differential effects we looked at how children in each of the two conditions performed on the different trial types at posttest (Figure 5). We found that participants in the Experimental condition outperformed those in the Control condition on every trial type. In addition, we found that children in both conditions continued to score above chance on the Consistent trials and the Equal trials. However, on Inconsistent trials, participants in the Control condition were not significantly different from chance, while participants in the Experimental condition performed significantly above chance. Therefore, while both groups largely abandoned the strategy that resulted in below chance performance on pretest, only participants who learned a separate word for the whole angle figure consistently adopted a more successful strategy.
Figure 5: At postest, children in both conditions continued to perform above chance on the Consistent and Equal trial types, but only children in the Experimental condition performed above chance on the Inconsistent trial types.
The results suggest that even within the realm of mathematics, it can be useful to incorporate general learning principles to understand the origins of children's pervasive misconceptions. In this particular case, evidence from the literature on word-learning helps to refute the common claim that angles are difficult for young children. Instead, our findings demonstrate that the pattern of errors we observe can be explained by the way children incorrectly interpret the word "angle". Therefore, in practice, educators should be aware that word-learning biases, while primarily beneficial for rapid vocabulary acquisition, can have unintended conceptual implications that should be explicitly addressed in the classroom setting.


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Sunday, September 06, 2009
Another Reason to Love Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
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Hubby Hubby. Sweet.ReplyDelete
I want Chubby Hubby.ReplyDelete
Thanks also for visiting my blog and your comments--I hope if you should continue to read, you get vicious. :)
As my partner says, I need to be put in my place.
Lori- it is sweet, isn't it?ReplyDelete
Steve- I'm about as vicious as a duckling, but I'll do my best.
I have been told that I am quite cranky in the morning and I do subscribe to the motto "Bitches get things done" so maybe there's hope for me yet.
Thanks for your note.
PS Um, my word verification was "swan" - so far my viciousness isn't going well...
P.S. Why did I say I want Chubby Hubby? I want Hubby Hubby. Is that my internalized homophobia acting out?ReplyDelete
i thought this was such a clever idea :)ReplyDelete
i think i have some cookie dough in the fridge to eat in tribute..hmmm
I visited Vermont this weekend. I also went on the Ben and Jerry's factory tour while I was there. Fun!ReplyDelete


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TEDding from the car – gPodder video Plugin for Rockbox April 7, 2011Posted by GuySoft in Crictor, diy, Electronics, ipod, ITU, linux, open source, podcast, programming, python.
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Hey all,
After a few weeks of bouncing emails with Thomas Perl I am happy to announce that we have a working plugin for his wonderful podcast application called gPodder. With this plugin installed, any mp4 video podcast that is downloaded with gPodder is automatically converted to a format playable by rockbox MPEG player plugin. Effectively meaning seamless sync of video podcasts to any rockbox enabled device. I am specifically using the Sansa fuze player, but just changing the screen resolution at the top of the plugin should make it work with any other rockbox device, and with the right screen size. The final product for me of all this technical stuff is that I can listen to TED lectures in the car. Or using the verb was coined by my friend Uzair "TEDding" from my car.
How to Install
- First you should have gPodder installed (available also as "apt-get install gpodder" or any other distribution install equivalent).
- Second you will need these packages installed too:
apt-get install python-kaa-metadata ffmpeg python-dbus
- Now all that is left is to copy this script to
mkdir -p ~/.config/gpodder/hooks/ cp rockbox_mp4_convert.py ~/.config/gpodder/hooks/
- If your are using a different player from the Sansa Fuse, modify the first lines to your screen resolution:
make sure to include the .0 at the end.
- Thats it! Now each time video is download, for example from the TEDTalks Video Podcast it would be converted on arrival, and relinked as the file to be synced.
As usual, I would love to hear feedback from users and suggestions.


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Saturday, July 6, 2013
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Southern California Genealogical Society Family Research Library
417 Irving Drive
Burbank, California 91504
The SCGS TMG User Group (TMG-UG) is a forum where users of The Master Genealogist® (TMG) software gather to discuss features, issues, and practical application of the "the gold standard in family history software" and its companion software, Second Site©.
The TMG-UG meetings are held at the Southern California Genealogical Society Family Research Library in Burbank. The SCGS TMG User Group meets monthly on the afternoon of the first Saturday of the month with the exception of holiday weekends and dates of special SCGS events. Please check the SCGS calendar for updates.
Our meeting format generally consists of a meet-and-greet period, questions from new attendees, a question-and-answer session, and a presentation, usually given by Patt Ricketts, SCGS member and TMG user since 1997.
The TMG User Group is an interest group of the Southern California Genealogical Society. Meetings are open to the general public. There is no fee for participation. Donations are gratefully accepted.
If you are a TMG user or are thinking about moving your data to TMG, why not join us? Bring your questions about TMG functionality, importing data from other software, and "how to" with you and learn how TMG can meet all of your genealogical software needs.
The SCGS Library is not open for research during the meeting.
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