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Ratatouille - PlayStation 3
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- Developer: Heavy Iron Studios
In the game, players will assume the role of Remy, a young rat whose love for great food puts him at odds with the needs of his family. Players will experience highlights from the film, as well as the memorable characters and key locations, as they explore five action-packed worlds, more than 20 challenging missions and mini-games and go head-to-head in multiplayer. Ratatouille will allow players to evade detection from dangerous and often hungry enemies, brave the perils of the dinner-rush, and create culinary masterpieces in this senses-shattering journey to fulfill Remy's life-long dream of becoming a great chef.


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Clues to Antique Chairs
By Fred Taylor
Some pieces of antique furniture are like an open book. A casual familiarity with the trade allows you to readily identify the period of a piece of Golden Oak or to correctly label a Victorian Rococo Revival couch. A number of technical elements can easily tell the age of a drop front desk and a bed is a dead giveaway based on the hardware of the siderails. But what about a chair? Chairs are not quite so open about themselves, and like a friend's skittish pet, it may take a while to get to know it— and for it to know you.
The first thing to know about a chair is what kind of chair is it? Chairs and similar seating platforms have been made for thousands of years, but in modern times in the Western world chairs boil down to one of three types—turner's chairs, Windsor chairs and cabinetmaker's chairs.
Turner's chairs are exactly what they sound like; they are assembled from pieces turned on a lathe, and usually employ a round mortise and tenon joint for the construction. Everything is round in the eyes of a turner. This type of chair was one of the first that was mass produced because of the simplicity of the elements and the construction.
A Windsor chair consists of a more or less flat seat, into which legs are inserted from below, again using a generally round mortise and tenon joint. The upper section of the chair consists of turned spindles inserted in the seat and topped, usually, by the bent hoop that composes the equivalent of a crest rail. The distinguishing feature of a Windsor is that no element of the chair is continuous from top to floor. Almost everything has a terminus in the seat except the lower stretchers which connect leg to leg, back hoops that form arms, and crest rails that sit impaled on stiles which are implanted into the seat but do not contact the floor.
Cabinetmaker's chairs are made from sawn and shaped elements, often elaborately carved. The normal joint in this type of chair is the rectangular mortise and tenon and in the later incarnations of the industrial age, the dowel joint. The most commonly seen chair in today's market is the cabinetmaker's chair.
Cabinetmaker's chairs, at first, seem to be the hardest to read. No joinery is visible except the occasional through tenon peeking out the rear stile or the apparent presence of a pin, the "true nail" or "trunnel," securing a mortise and tenon joint. Without these scant clues and without performing some destructive testing, like opening a joint, it is very difficult to tell if the chair was assembled with mortise and tenons or dowels.
But there very often is another clue that can be used if it can be seen. That is the manner in which the corners of the seat frame are blocked. Since most cabinetmaker's chairs are upholstered, access to corner blocking is not always easy unless the chair has a removable slip seat or unless you are able to remove some of the bottom dust cover to see into the interior. But if you can get there you may find some real help in identifying the chair.
The blocking in mid 18th century chairs was almost always done using a soft wood with several small blocks in each corner. The grain of the blocks usually runs vertically and since all fasteners of that period were handmade, very few 18th century corner blocks have original nails or screws in them. In keeping with the concept of "workmanlike manner," i.e. if it doesn't show don't spend any time on it, most original 18th century corner blocks are unfinished, just like the insides of the seat rails.
By the beginning of the 19th century, many cabinetmakers were no longer using the corner blocks and instead relied on a type of cleat to span the corner and connect the front rail to the side rail, bypassing actual contact with the corner altogether. These narrow cleats were usually a hardwood with the grain running horizontally and were glued into notches cut into the tops of the rails. They were fairly shallow and did not extend the full depth of the rails.
By mid century, with the Industrial Revolution reaching maturity and the factory system in full swing, corner blocking became more elaborate. Many Victorian era pieces, especially later in the period, had blocks shaped to cover each corner completely, securing two rails and the leg. In addition to being glued many blocks of the time also had the newly introduced, machine made, readily available gimlet screw to help hold it fast.
At the beginning of the 20th century, another technological innovation influenced corner blocks. That was the development of commercial plywood. This new type of surface became the seat bottom of choice in much of the mid grade furniture production of the first half of the century. Some way was needed to secure the new seating material to the chair and screwing it to the corner blocks was the logical step. Corner blocks of the Depression era emulated those of 100 years prior in that once again they did not actually cover the corner but only connected rail to rail. But this time they were glued and screwed and had another hole in the center to accommodate the seat bottom fastener.
With the advent of strong dowel joints, reinforced with new resin glues, corner blocks almost became superfluous to the structure of the chair. Their new job focused primarily on holding and supporting the seat.
So the enigmatic chair does have something to tell you after all. You just have to get to know it a little better.
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You've probably heard a lot about "the Latino voter" or the way companies are trying to win over "the Latino consumer."
It's a cliché to point out that Latinos, like every other ethnic group, are not monolithic. But let's say it one more time, anyway: Latinos are not monolithic.
That's underscored by a new major poll of nearly 1,500 Latino Americans by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health. The poll, like our previous poll of African-Americans, covered several aspects of people's lives — religious beliefs, personal finances, health status, education and more. It featured enough respondents that we could break them out into a few key groups by ethnic ancestry: Cubans, Dominicans, South Americans, Central Americans, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans. We were also able to contrast responses from folks who were immigrants with those who were born in the United States.
Of course, there are some themes in common: Respondents from every group were most likely to say that the economy and crime and violence were the biggest issues facing the places they lived. And more than 4 in 10 Latinos said in those places, all or most of those people were also Latino. (More people from each group expressed no preference on whether they preferred to be called "Latino" or "Hispanic" compared with one or the other preference.)
But what's most interesting is some of the characteristics unique to each group, and the variations and striations that exist within groups of respondents.
All this week, we'll be airing and publishing stories that delve into different aspects of different experiences the poll illuminated. To whet your appetite, here are some intriguing findings from the poll overall:
- In the poll's findings, people of Dominican descent were the most likely to say they were temporarily unemployed.
- Dominican respondents were more likely than the other groups polled to say they were dissatisfied with where they lived.
- Less than 1 in 5 Dominicans were say they've achieved the American dream. But Dominicans, like a majority of all Latino groups, say they have or will achieve the American dream.
- Cuban-Americans were out ahead of most other Latino groups on a bunch of socioeconomic indicators. They were very likely to tell pollsters that they had a college degree or greater; they reported high rates of homeownership; and they are more likely than other Latinos to say they have achieved the American dream.
- When asked about whether they had experienced four common types of discrimination in the past year, Cuban-Americans were more likely than the other groups to say they had not.
- But there were some counterintuitive findings, here: While a little over a third of all of the poll's respondents said their finances were not good or poor, nearly half of all Cubans said so. They were the group most likely to answer this way, despite the higher reported levels of education.
- And even though Cubans gave positive responses for many economic indicators, they also expressed more concern than most other Latino groups that they or someone in their family might lose their job in the next 12 months.
- They were also less likely than other groups to say they were satisfied with their lives.
Puerto Ricans
- The poll was conducted in Spanish and English, and there was close to a 50-50 split on the language folks used when answering. But Puerto Ricans were the only group in which a majority chose to take the poll primarily in English, and not by a little — nearly 8 in 10 puertorriqueños did so; no other group had even half the respondents answer that way. This number dovetails with another finding from the poll — Puerto Ricans were way more likely to lean toward English than Spanish at home.
- Significantly more Dominicans, Mexicans and Cubans reported living in neighborhoods that were mostly Latino than did Puerto Ricans.
- They were less likely than other Latinos to say they were concerned that they or someone in their household would be out of work in the next 12 months.
Central Americans
- Central Americans were one of the groups most likely to say they spoke only Spanish at home.
- Central Americans were the least educated group, per our respondents. Almost half had less than a high school education.
- Central Americans were significantly more likely to report having children younger than 18 living at home.
South Americans
- South Americans were among the groups most likely to be employed, and most likely to be employed full-time.
- South Americans were among the groups least likely to say they had children younger than 18 at home.
- South Americans were much more likely than Mexican-Americans — who make up the largest immigrant group in the country — to say they were themselves born in another country.
- Mexican-Americans are by far the biggest Latino group in the country, and they were the largest Latino group in our survey.
- Mexicans are among the groups most likely to say they are better off than their parents were when their parents were the same age the respondents are now.
- Despite making up the largest immigrant group in the United States, Mexican-Americans were about three times as likely as folks of Central American, South American or Dominican descent to say they were born here.
- Perhaps intuitively, more than two-thirds of people who immigrated to the United States said they spoke only Spanish or more Spanish than English at home.
- Latino immigrants were significantly more likely than the native-born to feel that their children would have better educational opportunities than they themselves had (91 percent to 68 percent). These respondents were also much more likely to think their children would be in better financial shape when they reached the respondent's age.
- Immigrant respondents were much more likely than native-born Latinos to have only a high school education or less.
- Employed immigrants were twice as likely as employed native-born Latinos to say they were concerned about themselves or a household member losing their job in the next 12 months. They were also twice as likely to say they were not confident they had enough money or health insurance to pay for a major illness.
The Native-Born
- Those born in the U.S. tend to be younger than those born in another country.
- A majority of all Latinos — both immigrants to the U.S. and folks born here — said religion is very important in their lives. However, Latinos born in the U.S. were twice as likely to say religion was not too or not at all important in their lives.
- Native-born Latinos are more likely than immigrant Latinos to say their finances are excellent or good.
It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep.
And I'm Renee Montagne. We're embarking this week on stories about Latino Americans. They're a growing part of the U.S. population with evermore influence on politics, culture, and more and we will be using a new survey of Latinos in America to guide our storytelling. It was conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health.
And to give us just a taste of what we found - because this was a very ambitious poll and as I said, we're going to be using it throughout the week - is Gene Demby. He's the lead blogger for NPR's Code Switch team. Good morning.
GENE DEMBY, BYLINE: Hello. Good morning, Renee.
MONTAGNE: Good morning. So first off, just who did you talk to in the poll? When I say ambitious, what am I saying?
DEMBY: So this is a really, really big poll sample size. There are about 1,500 people which is a sample size big enough to let us actually compare the answers from different populations. So there were Cuban-Americans, there were Mexican-Americans, Dominican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and there were Central Americans and South Americans in the poll sample.
MONTAGNE: All right. So just a couple of samples of what sorts of things you were asking them.
DEMBY: They were broad lifestyle questions about religious affiliation, about income, about quality of life, about the issues that were of most concern to them, about homeownership. We just wanted to get kind of a sense of what people felt about their lives.
MONTAGNE: Well, so give us the big takeaway of how people saw themselves.
DEMBY: You're probably going to hear a lot about the Latino voter and the Latino consumer, but one of the things this poll really underscored was just how many distinctions we tend to flatten when we use terms like that. These are groups who live in different parts of the country, who have different countries of origin, who have different religious affiliations and different ethnic heritages.
And so people had different preferences as to whether they identified by their country of origin or as Hispanic or Latino.
MONTAGNE: Hmm. So even what you call yourself might be different, depending on who you are within that community. So give us a couple of examples of the distinctions that these different Latino-Hispanic groups were making between themselves.
DEMBY: Right. So let's look at the Mexican-American population. They are by far the biggest group in our sample size, which is reflective of the reality of American life. They're the biggest Latino group in the country. They're nearly three times as likely as people of Central American or South American or Dominican heritage to say that they were born in the U.S.
Even though Mexican-Americans are the largest immigrant group in the country, when it came to something like the American Dream, right, nearly a third of our Mexican-American respondents said that they'd already achieved it. And a solid majority of Mexicans said they had not achieved it, but they would eventually. They were also more likely to say that their personal finances were in good or excellent shape.
More so than, for example, Cuban Americans who are, otherwise, ahead on a bunch of issues. They were more likely to own their own homes, they were more likely to have earned a college degree or more.
MONTAGNE: But they were worried about their finances a little bit.
DEMBY: Right. Nearly half of Cuban-Americans said that their finances were in poor shape. And six in 10 employed Cubans said they were concerned that either they or someone in their family will be out of work in the next 12 months.
MONTAGNE: Hmm. So those are the sorts of distinctions that will come out in the stories we're going to be hearing this week.
DEMBY: Right. There were also some distinctions between people who described themselves as immigrants and people who were native born. Immigrants were significantly more likely to say that they felt that their children would have better educational and economic opportunities than they had themselves.
MONTAGNE: Gene Demby is from Code Switch, our team that covers race, ethnicity, and culture. Gene, thanks very much.
DEMBY: Thanks for having me, Renee. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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By Drew Packham, NBA.com
LAS VEGAS — After 10 days of basketball and 60 games, Summer League action came to a close Sunday afternoon in Las Vegas with just three games and a familiar face once again stealing the show.
Adam Morrison, who earlier in the week was heckled by a few fans, got nothing but cheers – and even a short-lived "M-V-P" chant – after he took over in his finale, scoring 26 points and hitting four 3-pointers to lead L.A. to a 92-77 win over the Celtics.
"I'm used to it," Morrison said of the heckling. "For some reason, people see me as a polarizing figure. I don't know what it is. I'm a nice guy, I'm not rude or anything like that. Some people just like to pick on me, which I understand. It's their right. But I guess I did OK to keep 'em quiet for a little while."
Morrison did more than OK in his five days here. After Sunday's performance, Morrison boosted his average to 20.0 points and 5.0 rebounds and shot 55 percent in 33 minutes per game. The All-Summer League Team was announced — without Morrison on the list — before Sunday's game, but Morrison is just trying to show he still belongs in the league.
"To be honest with you, it's all about pride really," Morrison said. "Obviously I want to make it to the NBA, but I wanted to say that I gave it my best shot. If it doesn't work out, I can turn the page and do something else with my life."


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The storm that would become Hattie had formed two weeks earlier in the Atlantic Ocean and then moved slowly west toward Central America. When it reached the coast of Belize, known at the time as British Honduras, it was a Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 140 miles per hour and gusts reaching 180 mph. It was the strongest storm to hit Belize to date. With accurate weather predictions still in their infancy, an attempted evacuation was only partially successful.
The barrier islands of Turneffe and Caulker Cays were totally submerged by the storm surge. Hattie then brought a 12-foot surge to the mainland, flattening all buildings near the shore. Stann Creek, a small fishing village on the coast near Belize City, was completely destroyed. Following the hurricane, the village was rebuilt and renamed Hattieville.


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CONCORD, N.H.—Two Romanian computer hackers who stole credit card information from more 800 U.S. merchants and more than 150,000 credit and debit card holders have been given lengthy prison sentences by a federal judge in New Hampshire.
Prosecutors said the mastermind of the scheme was Adrian-Tiberiu Oprea, who has a criminal record in Romania for hacking into credit card databases. He is the first cyber-criminal Romania extradited to the United States, prosecutors said.
Oprea was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday. His top deputy, Iulian Dolan, received a seven-year sentence the same day.
"It's a great result," U.S. Attorney John Kacavas said Thursday. "It serves notice to the cyber-criminals that you can keystroke from the obscurity of your home half a world away, but we're going to get you."
Prosecutors say the two-year scheme that ended with the men's arrests in 2011 cost merchants, banks and cardholders more than $17 million. The Subway restaurant chain was hit hardest, with credit card information stolen from more than 250 franchises, including one in Plaistow, N.H.
"Oprea essentially wreaked havoc on Subway, both at the corporate level and at the individual franchise level," prosecutors wrote in their sentencing memorandum. Subway, they say, spent more than $5 million to investigate the source of the data leaks and make changes to its computer systems.
The two men pleaded guilty to hacking into the "point-of-sale" systems that link merchants' computers to credit card payment companies.
Once he hacked into the point-of-sale systems, prosecutors said, Oprea installed keystroke logging software to record credit card payment data and imported that information to computer "dump sites" he set up in the U.S. and Cyprus. He would use the stolen credit card data to make purchases for himself and sold some of it on the black-market.
"These cyber criminals are very clever and have the ability to reach into American commerce from half a world away," Kacavas said.
Dolan's role, prosecutors said, was to identify vulnerable merchant systems that had certain remote desktop software applications installed on them. Among Dolan's targets was the Plaistow Subway, where he stole the credit card information for hundreds of customers.
During the latter stages of their scheme, prosecutors said, Secret Service agents were able to monitor their exploits and to notify banks that issued the compromised cards before the credit card info could be abused.
Oprea supervised various sellers of the stolen credit card data, including Cezar Butu, who worked with a team of crooks in a rented house in Lille, France, to encode the stolen data onto blank plastic cards. Butu was sentenced in January to two years in prison.


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The championship will run over seven weekends from March to October, including a second double header, using the clockwise and anti-clockwise layouts at Pembrey to offer additional value to competitors.
Improvements and updates planned for Pembrey this winter include alterations to the rallycross track which is the only circuit licensed to run in both directions.
The way British RX events are presented to the public will be improved for 2017. The separate Super1600, BMW Mini and Hot Hatch Championships will be maintained but will race together to present a more easily understood event with fewer categories on track and fuller grids.
The Retro Rallycross Championship will join the MSA British Rallycross Championship at five events.
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You know what you need on a Thursday afternoon? Two whole weeks worth of our Tweeted, Facebook'd and Google+'d links from around the web. Be careful, though. A two week link roundup is a bit much to take at once. You may need a glass of milk.
Last weeks links from the Twitter, Google+, and Facebook 'verse:
Wolowitz on the mathematics of love. Bazinga. (TwitPic)
Dare you to watch this video explaining why yawning is so contagious without yawning. (YouTube)
You are not hallucinating. This is a dog dressed as 2 pirates carrying a treasure chest. (TwitPic)
Anything that's been buried 86 million years & is still alive deserves its own horror flick. @Syfy? (Science)
At the intersection of small, green, & poor grammar he is. (TwitPic)
Stuck somewhere uncomfortable, like a plane? Have some klezmer. (YouTube)
This is the story all about how my life got flipped turned upside down... Yep, he still knows it by heart. (YouTube)
Obsolete tech desk craft #421: How to make a Death Star & X-Wing from floppy disks. (Instructables)
Gibeon Meteorite and gemstone "9 Planets" ring (yes, including Pluto). Price: $4200. (TwitPic)
Fancy an Avengers cocktail with your shawarma? The "Thor" will (wait for it) get you hammered. (TwitPic)
For your next meat-themed birthday party, meat balloons! (Designboom)
And now, a reminder to watch where you're walking. Or just avoid mud. Always. (YouTube)
So wrong and yet so right: Mr. Potato Head Big Daddy. Where's tater tot Little Sister? (Ginger Troll's Flickr)
Reason #42 Bethesda is a cool place: They just installed Alduin's Wall in their offices. (Twitpic)
Morning adrenaline rush! Parachute-less skydiver walks away after 1.4km jump into pile of boxes. (YouTube)
What is this I don't even. A flock of seagulls playing... A Flock of Seagulls. (YouTube)
Beware the Cake Squig, a 3-foot-tall monster as delicious as it is deadly. by @charm_citycakes (TwitPic)
This engagement ring totally eclipses all the others. (Sorry, couldn't resist!) (TwitPic)
Lucky kid! Yes, that's a birthday cake: RT @FatherNerdling: Yes, that's a severed wampa arm. (TwitPic)
Thank you, men & women in uniform, past & present. And thank you, internet, for this image. Happy Memorial Day. (TwitPic)
Today's entertainment is provided by monkeys & synthesizers. Bring your own earplugs. (YouTube)
Best Iron Man cosplay ever? (His name is Tony Starch) (TwitPic)
How did this not exist yet!? Self-stirring pot uses convection & sculpted sides to create whirlpool. (YouTube)
Video game trading cards? YES. A Kickstarter with rewards from us? DOUBLE YES. We <3 @GeekAWeek. (YouTube)
Shut up and take my money, birthday card makers! (TwitPic)
Got a problem? Rub some bacon on it. Thank you, Bacon Bot. (YouTube)
And now, all the spells from Harry Potter in a single 17-minute video. (YouTube)
If you watch one stop motion papercraft music video today, make it this one. (Vimeo)
LOVE. @Neilhimself Gaiman's inspiring "Make Art" graduation speech as a comic, by @zenpencils. (Zen Pencils)
WARNING! Do not click this link if you don't want an Iron Man 3 spoiler from the set. (The Superficial)
Good morning! Here, have a Star Wars LEGO minifig cupcake or 3! (TwitPic)
And then, when you least expect it... (YouTube)
MIT researchers have developed needleless shots like the ones administered by Dr. McCoy, and it's cool technology! (Time)
In a world... where giant blocks fall from the sky... one player holds the key. TETRIS, THE MOVIE. (YouTube)
Can't. Stop. Watching. Epic 3:20-minute journey of a slinky on a treadmill. (YouTube)
If you watch this clip of Aziz Ansari talking about wasting time on the internet, you'll be wasting time on the internet. Yeah, it's meta. (YouTube)
Pretty flower! (Actually, no--it's colored water and some serious photography skills.) More at the link. (OldSchoolJack's Flickr)
Jonathan Coulton's new song "Redshirt" is based on John Scalzi's novel Redshirts, and it's pretty great. (Tor)
Signal boost! Here are some links from our Twitter, Google+, and Facebook friends that might be interesting to look at:
Math Girls Comic (Kickstarter)
Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth - A Webseries (Kickstarter)
Girls of the Con 2013 Fantasy Cosplay and Costuming Calendar (Kickstarter)
SciFund, a project to crowdfund money for scientific research. (SciFund Challenge)
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Just got back from my third trip to India. I've been working with Rediff on Rediffmail for going on five years. When I first went there, they had 125K users. When I left ten days later, they had 143K users. Now they're pushing 30M users if they're not there already, with terabytes and terabytes of disks spinning and servers and servers handing out webmail.
On my first visit, we were troubled by two strikes. One was actually not so bad, as it was the taxis and I had a company car and driver (if you can drive in Mumbai, you can drive in Boston; the converse is not a given) at my disposal. Without the badly-tuned diesel taxis on the road, the air cleaned up first-rate. But still, Mumbai basically shut down for the day, and the taxi drivers made their point. Similarly, truck drivers went on strike the same week, and delayed shipment of the servers we needed for the cluster.
The strikes were caused by the government trying to increase the price of diesel fuel to match the market price they had to purchase it at. Clearly, it was the opinion of the strikers that they should not be subject to market discipline. Perhaps if they were, the taxi drivers would have taken their taxis in for a tune-up to increase their fuel efficiency. Pollution is not just trespass, it's waste.
Several of the people I spoke to said that conditions for business were improving in India. This is good. It is VERY good. All the socialist redistribution in the world won't help if there is no capitalist production to redistribute. More than that, a wealthier economy helps everybody by creating surplus. This increased prosperity increases the price pressure on the only truly scarce commodity: human attention.
India is reducing its tariffs, making it easier to start a business, eliminating anti-competitive laws, and privatizing businesses. They still have a long way to go. They gave up about fifty years of development while pursing a socialist fantasy. But they are making progress, and we should cheer them on. Go India! Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!


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California Department of Transportation
Date: Friday, June 10, 2011
District: 05 – Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz Counties
Contact: Susana Z Cruz (bilingual) or Sharon Gavin (TAMC)
Phone: (805) 549-3138 or (831) 775-4415
Landmark project to improve safety and reduce traffic congestion on Highway 101 gets underway
MONTEREY COUNTY – Caltrans and the Transportation Agency for Monterey County announced today that construction has begun on the U. S. Highway 101 Prunedale Improvement Project (PIP), the largest transportation project in Monterey County since the early 1960s.
"This is an historic project that will make Highway 101 significantly safer, reduce congestion, and improve access to local businesses," said Acting Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty.
Currently, Highway 101 within the project area is a four-lane expressway with several at-grade intersections. The combination of high speed traffic on the highway and vehicles trying to enter or exit the at-grade intersections causes congestion and impacts safety.
The landmark $209 million project will upgrade a 13-mile segment (from Russell/Espinoza Road to just north of Echo Valley Road) of Highway 101 to a four-lane freeway, construct two new interchanges, a new undercrossing and a new overcrossing, modify an existing interchange, make various local road improvements, and install a concrete median barrier at various locations throughout the project limits. Collectively, these improvements will reduce congestion for 60,000 to 80,000 vehicles daily and provide safer access for motorists.
"We are very excited to begin work on a transportation project of this magnitude that will create hundreds of local jobs," said the project's contractors, Granite Construction Company and MCM Construction, a joint venture from Watsonville.
The project is expected to be completed in late 2014. For more information, please call the toll-free project hotline at (877) 448-6771 or visit: http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist05/prunedale/prunepip/index.htm
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While Away Bed and Breakfast is a purpose built exclusive bed and breakfast located at Yeppoon on the Capricorn Coast of Central Queensland, Australia, and caters for visitors seeking comfort and friendly service at an affordable price. Their aim is to provide the highest possible standard; no less than they would expect themselves.
The home is surrounded by beautiful gardens and shady courtyards to be enjoyed by guests. Smoking is not allowed inside, however, there are facilities in the courtyards. The interior is tastefully decorated, spacious and spotlessly clean.
Full breakfast for their guests is their own special blend of tropical and cooked meal, which is a great start to a day. Refreshments, tea and coffee, cake and biscuits are provided 24 hours. There is also complimentary sherry or port for you to enjoy.
While Away Bed and Breakfast is only 100 metres from a lovely unspoilt beach. This is great for walking, swimming and water sports to name but a few activities. The small township of Yeppoon is two kilometres from While Away and there are many places for dining as well as for shopping.
The Queen Room has a queen bed, tea and coffee making facilities, air-conditioning, fan, wall mounted television, DVD and a spacious ensuite.
The King Room has a king size bed with its own private courtyard (ideal for a honeymoon couple). Has tea and coffee making facilities, air-conditioning, fan, wall mounted television, DVD and a spacious ensuite.
The Queen Room specially designed with easy wheelchair access to cater for guests with disabilities. Has reverse cycle air-conditioner, fan, tea and coffee making facilities, wall mounted television, DVD player and ensuite suitable for those with disabilities.
Note: Information on listed products and services are provided by the operator and were correct at the time of publishing. Rates are indicative based on the minimum and maximum available prices of products and services. Please visit the operator's website for further information. All prices quoted are in Australian dollars (AUD).


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Today we are happy to announce that we have completed the integration of our U.S. subsidiary, MediaWhiz, into our global operations, exactly one year after the acquisition.
As part of the corporate integration, the MediaWhiz brand has been retired, with the company now serving as Matomy's U.S. hub of operations.
In addition, our SEO team will be now part of Matomy and shall be called Matomy SEO.
Tom Lanzetta, formerly the chief financial and operating officer of MediaWhiz, will serve as Managing Director, U.S., at Matomy Media Group, and will oversee all U.S. business operations for the company.
This rebranding reflects our mission to offer advertisers, publishers and affiliates a single gateway of global performance-advertising solutions.
Commenting on the merger CEO Ofer Druker said:
"Merging the MediaWhiz brand into Matomy will provide our advertisers and publishers with a robust, single gateway of global multichannel performance-advertising solutions, no matter where they are located in the world. This brand merger will ensure we provide increased simplicity, diversity and quality in the programs we manage for advertisers and publishers. The time is right for one identity — one Matomy Media Group."
"Tom Lanzetta is the right leader to oversee our U.S. operations," said Druker. "We anticipate significant growth from our U.S. business in the years ahead, and Tom and his team will play a crucial role in our global success."
Good luck to the new Matomy US team!


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Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) said on Thursday that its Kindle Fire tablet, which competes with Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad, Samsung's Galaxy and Barnes & Noble's (NYSE:BKS) Nook, has captured 22% of the U.S. market.
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The news comes less than a year – 48 weeks to be exact – since the product launched, where it quickly became the best-selling item of the millions offered on the online retailer's platform.
"We're grateful to the millions of customers who have made Kindle Fire the most successful product launch in the history of Amazon," Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in a statement. "Kindle Fire is sold out, but we have an exciting roadmap ahead."
The Seattle-based company said all of the top 10 products sold on Amazon.com since the Fire's launch have been Kindle or related products.
Shares of Amazon edged higher on Thursday, touching an all-time record of $250.
The news is sour for rival Barnes & Noble, which competes directly with Amazon not just in the tablet market but with e-readers as well. Shares of the New York-based bookseller fell 2% to about $11.98 on Thursday morning, pushing them down more than 17% since January.
In an effort to try and tap new areas abroad, Barnes & Noble said it has chosen several major retailers in the U.K. to launch the newest versions of its Nook this fall.
While its expansion in the U.K. is a step in the right direction, the 95-year-old company already significantly trails Amazon there, which has a pretty well-established U.K. presence.


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Configuring jGuard to Work with Databases
For this part of the discussion, we'll explain jGuard usage in conjunction with a database using MySQL server. jGuard authenticates and authorizes database users with the following tables: jg_permission, jg_domain, jg_principal_domain, jg_principal_permisison, jg_app_principal, jg_credential, jg_principal, jg_principal_hierarchy, jg_st_principal, jg_st_user, jg_user, jg_user_principal, jg_st_credential.
You need to create one empty database and specify it as part of the jGuard config files. jGuard creates these tables by itself and populates them by using data in jGuardUsersPrincipals.xml and jGuardPrincipalsPermissions.xml. The purpose of these important tables in jGuard is as follows:
- jg_app_principal: This table contains the principals or roles that are defined for the application. It maps the principals to their respective IDs.
- )jg_credential: This table contains the concrete credentials of the user. It also maps the credentials of the user to their user_id.
- jg_domain: This table contains the domains defined in the application. It maps these domains to their IDs. The concept of domains can be understood by referring to jGuardPrincipalsPermissions.xml.
- jg_permission: This table contains information about all the permissions defined for the application and the actions permitted for them.
- jg_principal_domain: This table maps the domains defined for the application to the principals that have access to them.
- jg_principal_permission: This table maps the principals to the permissions they have.
- jg_user_principal: This table maps the users to the principals they have.
Other important files are authentication.mysql.properties and authorization.mysql.properties, which contain SQL commands to connect and execute for jGuard in MySQL database.
Note that you must ensure the JARs required to connect to the MySQL database have been downloaded (i.e. the mysql-connector JAR).
A potential problem that can arise in getting jGuard to work with databases is the repeated creation of tables every time you start the application. This can be fixed by setting the lower_case_table_names variable to "1" in the my.ini file. So, the following line should be added in the [mysqld] section of my.ini file: lower_case_table_names=1.
In jGuardAuthentication.xml, specify JdbcAuthenticationManager as the authentication manager, and set the login module to be JdbcLoginModule. In addtition, mention the database connection details under the <authenticaitonManagerOptions> element: databaseDriver; databaseDriverUrl; databaseDriverLogin; databaseDriverPassword; authenticationXmlFileLocation; and authenticationDatabaseFileLocation.
The Authentication.mysql.properties file is specified under authenticationDatabaseFileLocation and the JGuardUsersPrincipes file is specified under the authenticationXmlFileLocation as in the following code:
<authenticationManager> net.sf.jguard.ext.authentication.manager.JdbcAuthenticationManager </authenticationManager> <authenticationManagerOptions> <option> <name>databaseDriver</name><value>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</value> </option> <option> <name>databaseDriverUrl</name> <value>jdbc:mysql://icode:3306/mydb</value> </option> <option> <name>databaseDriverLogin</name> <value>user1</value> </option> <option> <name>databaseDriverPassword</name><value>pwd1</value> </option> <option> <name>authenticationXmlFileLocation</name> <value>/WEB-INF/conf/jGuard/jGuardUsersPrincipals.xml</value> </option> <option> <name>authenticationDatabaseFileLocation</name> <value>WEB-INF/conf/jGuard/authentication.mysql.properties</value> </option> </authenticationManagerOptions>
jGuardAuthorization XML also has to be configured accordingly to work with databases. The authorization manager has to be specified as JdbcAuthorizationManager and the database URL, login and password, authorizationXMLfilelocation and authorizationDatabaseFilelocation have to be provided under authorizationManagerOptions, just as in the process used for the authentication XML.
jGuard has a CAPTCHA module implementation, which helps secure applications against bots. To include a CAPTCHA module, first configure jGuardAuthentication.xml to include the JCaptchaLoginModule. The code to achieve this follows:
<loginModule> <name>net.sf.jguard.ext.authentication.loginmodules.JCaptchaLoginModule</name> <flag>REQUIRED</flag> </loginModule>
Next, update the login page to include code for the generation of the CAPTCHA image and a text field that allows the user to input an answer. The subtle point to note here is that the text field must be named captchaAnswer. The code for this follows:
<img id="captcha" src="/jGuard/Captcha.do"/> Captcha: <input type="text" name="captchaAnswer"/>
The primary complication that can arise while using the CAPTCHA module stems from authorization issues. When we specify the source of the image to be /<projectName>/<CaptchaUrl>.do, jGuard begins an authorization process and checks whether we have the privileges to access the URL. By default, if you try to access an URL without authenticating first, jGuard will allow access it only if the "guest" principal has access. Thus, to successfully run the CAPTCHA module, we have to provide the "guest" principal the rights to access the CAPTCHA URL.
Another important point to note is that we will need to write a servlet to aid in image generation. The following lines of code should be added in the doGet() method:
try { CaptchaChallengeBuilder.buildCaptchaChallenge(request, response); } catch (Exception e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); }
The CAPTCHA URL should then map to this servlet.
Digest Algorithms
To use a digest algorithm for password encryption, we have to declare the algorithm we wish to use in jGuardAuthentication.xml . This can be done using the following code:
The catch here is that jGuard goes into an infinite loop if no user exists in the datasource and the login page will keep on refreshing indefinitely. To solve this problem, you should ensure that at least one user exists. Furthermore, while using a digest algorithm, you have to take care that the password is stored in an encrypted form, not in its original form (for instance, if the user "guest" has the password "guest," then it should be stored in its MD5 digested form, "21232F297A57A5A743894A0E4A801FC3.") A good applet that helps us do these conversions can be found at http://www.jensign.com/JavaScience/www/messagedigestj2/index.html.
As we have shown, jGuard is a straightforward library for easy Java web app authentication and authorization. If you are interested in learning more, visit the jGuard wiki at http://jguard.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome, where you can also find the latest downloads and documentation.


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I am a little over ten years into this interest (actually an addiction) of tracing the genealogy of my family and related families. I am sometimes asked why do you do it? My answer is twofold - a love of history and a sense of appreciation.
First, what's not to love about an interest that takes you on a trip through time, and lets you explore lands and people by studying their geography, religion, architecture, occupations, political beliefs, economies, and culture (their dress, foods, & music). Add visits to libraries, archives, churches, genealogical societies, and cemeteries in near and far off places to the mix ~ and you become a time traveler, an adventurer of sorts. I have an incomplete map and get to go on a treasure hunt!
Second, I truly believe that the more we study our families' stories the greater understanding and appreciation we have for who they were, what they experienced, the choices they made, and the gifts they gave us. Everyone has a story to tell. Oftentimes our ancestors were so busy surviving that they did not have the time or the ability to tell their stories. Thankfully today we have that luxury ~ so I am doing my part to make sure their stories are told.
The Families That Make Up The Two Distinct Trees of
The Keough Corner
The Keough Corner
Members of The Keough Tree originated in Ireland, spent several generations in Newfoundland, emigrated to the United States and settled in the Pacific Northwest. Affiliated families remained in Newfoundland, some ventured to other parts of Canada, others emigrated to the United States and settled in Michigan, New York, Oklahoma and Vermont (this list is not complete and my tree is a work in progress).
These are the surnames that are most common in the Keough Tree
- Aylward
- Barker
- Dooley
- Driscoll/O'Driscoll
- Furlong
- Heaney
- Kenny
- Keough/Kehoe/Keogh/Kough
- Michan
- Murphy
- Philpott
- Tracey
- Walsh
- Whelan/Phalen
These are the surnames that are most common in the Murphy Tree
- Butler
- Doran
- Henigan/Hennigan
- Hennesy/Hennessy
- Kavanaugh/Cavanaugh
- Kelly
- Kiley
- Malone
- McDonnell
- Murphy
- Shaughnessy
- Sullivan
Oh the Places We've Been
Family in the Keough Tree came from County Carlow, Ireland (and as yet other unknown counties in Ireland) and emigrated to Saint John's, Newfoundland. They moved from Saint John's to King's Cove, then to Open Hole/Hall, and settled in Plate Cove. Most of the families remained in the Bonavista region of Newfoundland, moving to nearby communities because of marriage, employment or other opportunities. My grandfather emigrated to the United States and settled in the Pacific Northwest. Our Keoughs and affiliated families can be found in various parts of Newfoundland, other provinces of Canada, Australia, and several States in the United States.
Family in the Murphy Tree came from Counties Carlow, Cork and Kerry, Ireland and emigrated to the United States (some of them through Canada). They moved from New York and Vermont to Missouri and later settled in Nebraska (Murphys and their affiliated families settled in the counties of Holt, Johnson, and Nemaha). My great-grandparents and their children moved from Nebraska to the Pacific Northwest. Our Murphys and affiliated families can be found in Nebraska, Oregon, and Washington, as well as British Columbia, Canada.


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Capitola Theater
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The auditorium of the Capitola Theater was constructed with a laminated wood arched roof. It opened August 6, 1948 and was under the same family ownership/operation until its closure as a full-time movie house in the mid-1990's. The Capitola Theater was a much-loved double-feature bargain theatre serving all of Santa Cruz County. If you didn't want to pay top price at the other theatres in the county, you could usually wait several months and your film would play the "Cap."
At times threatened with demolition, the theater was rescued by a group of local opera artists, who built a stage in front of the screen and presented opera there with success, as well as screening movies to fill in spaces in their schedule. It was closed in 2006, and was demolished in May 2010.
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As this is one of the most beloved, and most-visited theaters of my late childhood and young adulthood, I will give, for the record, the movies I saw here.
Prior to when I began keeping careful record of movies I've seen theatrically (1982), I can't recall anywhere near all of them, though I do know the first visit was for a double feature, circa 1975, of "That's Entertainment," and "Travels with My Aunt." The latter was the first time I ever saw nudity onscreen (a stripper in a club) albeit a rear view. I also know we saw "The Great Santini," and "Serial" in about 1980 or '81—not necessarily paired. More childhood education: The latter had a humorous orgy scene, this time with frontal nudity.
By no means will I even consider blurring the eyes of fellow Cinematreasures members/readers by listing all movies seen at every theater on this site that I've attended (I would never have time), but as the "Cap" was my family's most-frequented theater, and it got almost all the movies after the local UA houses were done with them, I think a complete list is in order of what I saw, in fond remembrance:
"Raiders of the Lost Ark" with "The Jazz Singer" (yes, with Neil Diamond)
"The French Leutenant's Woman" with "Atlantic City"
"Absence of Malice" with "Seems Like Old Times"
"First Monday of October" with "Reds"
"Deathtrap" with "Victor/Victoria"
"Modern Problems" with "Tron"
"Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" with "Tex"
"Trail of the Pink Panther" with "Time Bandits"
"Missing" with "Evil Under the Sun"
"Max Dugan Returns" with "The Black Stallion Returns"
"The Verdict" with "Without A Trace"
"King of Comedy" with "Max Dugan Returns" (again!)
"The Survivors" with "Tootsie"
"Local Hero" with "Chariots of Fire"
"The Grey Fox" with "Mr. Mom"
"A Christmas Story" with "Romantic Comedy"
"Cross Creek" (We didn't stay for the second feature. I do know that it was something we were afraid might offend the sensibilities of guests we were entertaining from then-Communist China as part of an exchange program with UC Santa Cruz!)
"Yentl" with "Best Friends"
"Silkwood" (Not sure why I—alone this time—didn't stay for the second feature)
"Tender Mercies" with "Racing With the Moon"
"The Natural" with "Unfaithfully Yours"
"Broadway Danny Rose" with "The Dresser"
"The Karate Kid" with "Hanky Panky"
"Protocol" (Didn't stay for second feature—perhaps I or my then-girlfriend weren't interested)
"Falling in Love" with "King David"
"A Passage to India" (Didn't see second feature)
"Vertigo" with "The River"
"The Man Who Knew Too Much" with "The Trouble With Harry"
"The Return of the Soldier" (Didn't see second feature)
"Amadeus" (Didn't see second feature)
"Clue" with "Young Sherlock Holmes"
"The Trip to Bountiful" with "White Nights"
At this point I was now living fulltime outside Santa Cruz County, so my visits became fewer*****
"Soul Man" with "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
"Crocodile Dundee"(Didn't see second feature)
"Baby Boom" (Didn't see second feature)
"Crossing Delancey" with "Clara's Heart"
"Pink Cadillac" with "Scens From the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills"
—didn't go at all—
"Quigley Down Under" with "On the Air"
"For the Boys" with "Barton Fink"
The Capitola closed within a couple of years.
The Capitola Theatre was built for Arthur Mayer of San Francisco and Joseph Jacobs of Burlingame. Although construction of the Capitola began in late 1947, materials shortages delayed its completion, and it didn't open until the summer of 1948. The start of construction was announced in the December 6, 1947, issue of Boxoffice Magazine, and the opening in the August 7, 1948, issue. The September 3, 1973, issue of Boxoffice said that the Capitola had celebrated its 25th anniversary on August 6.
I guess it's doomed when the Mayor doesn't consider it historic.
Then they cite the property forcing abatement due to health concerns. It's just a route to get the owner/ developer to tear it down all the quicker.
Wonder how many of those "threatened" Eucalyptus trees will come down to build the hotel?
If the developer included plans for a small stage within the hotel, it might quell any backlash.
Though no one even commented to the newspaper's article forum.
The link to the current status & story is on the CT Home page BTW.
BTW II: A Mr. Haven's wrote an excellent comment yesterday that posted to that current story on the home page.
Maybe CT admins can transfer it directly to this Capitola page.
This theatre is being demolished today.
Most of the equipment is now in the dump.
If one had the chance they should have gotten in somehow and saved some parts of that Theatre,I know i did it when they came in to wreck my favorite two theatres. Got quite a bit out of the booth and managers office.It wasn't all going in the trash if i could help it.
The Capitola's well worn parking lot is still there, but a freshly-laid L-shaped pad of blacktop marks the footprint where the auditorium and lobby once were. The front lawn has been scraped away as well. The old cement block wall that once separated the theatre from the Lido restaurant (and Mac's Patio bar before that) still stands.
A card in the L.A. library's California Index cites a 1948/1949 theatre catalog naming the architect of the Capitola Theatre as Harold Onstead. I've been unable to find anything else about him on the Internet.
Our family ran the Theater with Audrey Jacobs taking the job for a year and ran it for 50 years when she retired. It was a family enterprise and started with the running of both the Soquel and Capitola Theaters. The original builiding was an old quansit hut purchased from military surplus according to my father, Merton Jacobs the nephew of Joseph and Racine Jacobs.
Audrey used to say that the theater was her baby and after all she was the first woman to run a movie theater in the state of California.
So sad that this seaside town has lost their theatre.
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For Immediate Release
January 15, 2013
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Mayor Thomas M. Menino and Target® in partnership with the Museum of African American History (MAAH) and the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras (BYSO) present Boston's 11th annual "A Day of Service and Celebration in Honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr." on Monday, January 21 at 1p.m. in Faneuil Hall. The event is free and open to the public and will include a moving selection of classical music, spirituals and freedom songs performed by the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras' Intensive Community Program, conducted by Marta Zurad. A speaking program will include a distinguished roster of leaders evoking the power and promise of this incredible civil rights hero.
As 2013 is the Sesquicentennial of the historic proclamation and of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment, the first black soldiers from the north to serve in the Civil War, the Mayor's Office and BYSO will join the Museum in commemorating the 150th anniversary. Given the significance of these milestones, this year's tribute presents an ideal opportunity to showcase Dr. King's Emancipation Proclamation Centennial Address on the Presidential Order to liberate men, women and children enslaved in states in rebellion during the Civil War. The military, humanitarian, and oratory leaders will read from the speech delivered in New York City on September 12, 1962, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's signing of the preliminary proclamation on September 22, 1862 and his official proclamation on January 1, 1863. The event also will recognize the 50th anniversary of his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered August 28, 1963 in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
"Every year I look forward to this incredible event as we honor and celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.," Mayor Menino said. "What better way to commemorate these significant historic events and this iconic figure than through music, spoken word, history, and volunteer service opportunities? I invite all Bostonians to join us as we celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. King."
Ernest G. Green, Member of the Little Rock Nine and Consultant, will deliver the keynote address. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, September 22, 1941, Green earned his high school diploma from Central High School in Little Rock. He and eight other black students were the first to integrate Central High, following the 1954 US Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education that declared segregation illegal. They later would become known as the "Little Rock Nine." Green then went on to receive his bachelors in social science and masters in sociology from Michigan State University. He also received honorary doctorates from Michigan State University, Tougaloo College, and Central State University.
Ernest G. Green is presently the Managing Director of Public Finance for Lehman Brothers' Washington, DC office. He has also been appointed as chairman of the African Development Foundation, by President Clinton, and chairman of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Capital Financing Advisory Board by Secretary of Education, Richard W. Riley.
Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Green was president of Ernest Green & Associates, a minority consulting firm that provided technical assistance in marketing, financial management, and economic forecasting. Green served as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training during the Carter Administration where he formulated the US Presidential Policy and directed implementation of a vast range of activities.
Green is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Executive Leadership Council, the Legislative Action Committee of the Public Securities Association, and chairs the National Association of Securities Professionals and Africare. Recently, he joined Winrock International's board of directors. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the March of Dimes Foundation and the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. The recipient of numerous awards Green was the youngest recipient of the NAACP's Spingard Medal, at the age of seventeen. On November 9, 1999, President Clinton presented Green, along with the rest of the "Little Rock Nine," the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest honor given to a civilian, for outstanding bravery during the integration of Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
Several books, movies and documentaries have been produced chronicling Green and his eight classmates historic year at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas – the most recent being the Ernest Green Story, produced and distributed by the Walt Disney Corporation.
In addition to the keynote speaker, a distinguished roster of leaders will read from Dr. King's Emancipation Proclamation Centennial address. This roster includes Marvin Gilmore, Military Leader; Reverend Doctor Gloria White Hammond, Humanitarian Leader; and Regie Gibson, Oratory Leader.
Marvin E. Gilmore Jr. is a decorated World War II veteran and first African-American in New England to be awarded the Legion of Honor, France's highest civilian award, for his role in liberating France and for his bravery and dedication in the face of discrimination during and after his heroic military service. He stormed Normandy's beaches on June 6, 1944 and on D-day, when Allied forces invaded France, Gilmore was assigned to an antiaircraft unit that provided cover for American soldiers landing on Utah and Omaha beaches. Although he had hoped to serve in a band, he was assigned to a combat unit, but finished his time in Europe by attending the Scottish Academy of Music in Glasgow. Back in the United States, Gilmore cofounded the Unity Bank in Roxbury, the first black-owned commercial bank in Boston, and played key roles in redevelopment of the Southwest Corridor, the Newmarket industrial district, and the CrossTown industrial park near the Boston Medical Center in Roxbury. He has been president of the Community Development Corporation of Boston since 1973 and owns The Western Front nightclub near Central Square in Cambridge. In 2007, the Boston Globe chose Gilmore as one of Boston's most stylish people.
The Rev. Dr. Gloria White-Hammond is co-founder and co-pastor of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Boston, founding co-chair of the Massachusetts Coalition to Save Darfur. A pediatrician at Boston's South End Community Health Center since 1981, she has a long history of involvement in community service. She created "Do the Write Thing" for high-risk African-American adolescent females, a creative writing/mentoring program started in 1994 with four girls, now serving more than 250 young women at churches, schools and juvenile detention facilities. White-Hammond's humanitarian work in several African countries includes Botswana, Cote D'Ivoire, and South Africa. Since 200, numerous trips into war-torn Sudan helped obtain the freedom of 10,000 women and children. She co-founded "My Sisters Keeper", the humanitarian group which has partnered with women of Sudan, founded a School for Girls, and taken a leading role in demanding an end to the genocide. Doctor White-Hammond serves on boards for Brigham and Women's Hospital, Tufts University, American Anti-Slavery Group in Boston, and Christian Solidarity International in Zurich, Switzerland. Her degrees include a Bachelors from Boston University, a Doctorate from Tufts Medical School, and a Masters from Harvard Divinity School. Her many recognitions include the Humanitarian Award of the Boston Theological Institute (2004), the Liberating Vision Award of the Greater Boston Section of the National Council of Negro Women (2004) and the Impact Award from AARP (2004).
Regie Gibson is a former National Poetry Slam Champion who has lectured and performed widely in the United States, Cuba, and Europe. In 2008, as a representative of the U.S., Gibson competed for and received the Absolute Poetry Award in Monfalcone, Italy. He and his work appear in love jones, a feature film based on events in his life. He also has been featured on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, various programs on National Public Radio, and has been nominated for a Boston Emmy. Gibson is a recipient of both the Walker Scholarship for poetry from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and a YMCA Writer's fellowship. He has been published in Poetry magazine, Harvard's Divinity Magazine, the Iowa Review, and numerous other regional and national publications. His volume of poems, Storms Beneath the Skin, received the Golden Pen Award. In 2010, Gibson received a Massachusetts Cultural Council Award for Poetry and the 2010-11 Lexington Education Foundation Program Grant. He performs regularly with his literary music ensemble Neon JuJu.
Since the fifty-seventh Presidential Inauguration ceremony is taking place Monday, January 21st, the Mayor's Office of Arts, Tourism & Special Events will screen the Presidential inauguration ceremony from 11:00 – 12:30pm in the same location at Faneuil Hall right before "A Day of Service and Celebration in Honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
In keeping with the spirit of Dr. King's legacy, the City of Boston and Boston Cares are organizing a service event at the Curley School in Jamaica Plain on Monday, January 21, 2013. Hundreds of volunteers will be given the opportunity to choose from various service projects. Participants will be able to engage in different activities such as working together on a mural, making scarves, building educational kits or decorating quilt squares which will benefit agencies throughout the Boston Metro area. There will be a variety of different projects and people coming together to serve their communities and celebrate their differences.
There will be two volunteer sessions; the first session will be from 10:00-12:00 pm and the second will be from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Registration will be available through the Boston Cares website, www.bostoncares.org. This is a family friendly event.
About Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras
The mission of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras (BYSO) is to encourage artistic excellence in a nurturing environment by providing the highest quality orchestral training and performance opportunities to qualified musicians, grades K-12, while making its programs accessible to underrepresented youth through financial aid and outreach. Widely regarded as one of the country's finest youth orchestra programs, BYSO is recognized as both a model music and arts education organization. BYSO now serves nearly 500 students annually from more than 120 communities throughout New England. Under the leadership of Music Director Federico Cortese, BYSO has become one of Boston's most prestigious cultural organizations with a programmatic scope that includes three full symphonic orchestras, two string training orchestras, six chamber orchestras, a preparatory wind ensemble, a chamber music program, and the Intensive Community Program, a nationally recognized string training program for underrepresented youth from inner-city communities. BYSO has built a strong international touring presence performing in world-renowned venues. Six years ago, Mr. Cortese initiated an opera program. Now, every year BYSO's premier orchestra presents a full semi-staged opera and is the only youth orchestra in the United States to do so. For 56 years BYSO has been in residence at Boston University. In 2012, BYSO and the Boston Symphony Orchestra announced a new partnership for the future of classical music, "BYSO/BSO: Partnering for the Future".
About the Intensive Community Program
Marta Zurad, ICP Conductor - Nicole Cariglia, ICP Director
BYSO believes that every child benefits from engagement in the pursuit of artistic excellence provided in a nurturing environment. In 1999, BYSO recognized a need to reach out to students in underserved communities in the Boston area to extend this valuable opportunity. The Intensive Community Program (ICP), a nationally recognized string instrument training program, serves underrepresented students in classical music with the goal of preparing them for successful auditions leading to membership in BYSO's orchestras. ICP accepts young students (ages 5-8) who show exceptional interest in studying stringed instruments and provides them with scholarship assistance for weekly music lessons, ensemble classes and instrument rental. Once admitted into a BYSO orchestra, ICP students receive support in the form of need-based tuition scholarship, weekly lessons and use of an instrument until they graduate from high school. The program's success is based on the community spirit that has been built which encourages students to achieve accelerated musical growth. ICP currently serves 69 students. For the past 14 years, the National Endowment for the Arts has supported the ICP. NEA panelists have praised the high artistic quality and teaching methods of the ICP, calling it a model music training program for underserved youth. Locally, the Massachusetts Cultural Council recognized the artistic merit of BYSO and ICP with the Commonwealth Award, the state's highest honor in the arts.
About Museum of African American History, Boston and Nantucket
Dedicated to preserving, conserving and accurately interpreting the contributions of black patriots, entrepreneurs, activists and educators from the Colonial Period through the 19th century, the Museum of African American History has four unique historic sites and amazing collections. Exhibits and programs at the Museum's National Historic Landmarks in Boston and Nantucket highlight the powerful story of extraordinary community leaders and ordinary citizens who changed the course of American history. The crown jewel of these sites, the African Meeting House on Boston's Beacon Hill, is the oldest black church edifice still standing in the United States; now newly restored and open as a showcase of American freedom and craftsmanship. Monumental historical events were hosted at this anti-slavery church, with Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Stewart among giants of the Abolitionist Movement who rallied there to demand equal rights and recruit blacks to play a defining role in the Civil War. Visit the Museum of African American History and hear inspiring stories. Explore all of the historic sites and Black Heritage Trails® in Boston and Nantucket. Take a tour, guided by National Park Service Rangers in Boston, and enjoy collections of artifacts, paintings, sculptures, photographs, prints, manuscripts, antique and contemporary journals, documents, books, and material culture. Visit maah.org or call 617-725-0022 x222 (Boston) or 508-228-9833 (Nantucket).
About Mayor's Office of Arts, Tourism & Special Events
The Mayor's Office of Arts, Tourism & Special Events fosters the growth of the cultural community; promotes public participation in the arts and public celebrations; and advances cultural tourism in Boston. Visit our website at www.cityofboston.gov/arts.
About Boston Cares
Boston Cares organizes and leads team oriented volunteer opportunities throughout Greater Boston that have a positive impact on individuals and communities.
A Day of Service and Celebration in Honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Karrueche Tran Infuriated Over Chris Brown's Drunken Video
As much as we love Rihanna, we have to say, we feel a little bad for Karrueche Tran in this whole Chris Brown romance drama. The model is reportedly livid that Brown made their private life public via the now-infamous drunken video in which he confesses he loves two women at the same time -- ostensibly Tran and RiRi.
Sources close to Tran told TMZ that she's incredibly upset that Breezy aired their dirty laundry on video to begin with, but was even more mad once that video went viral. Tran's pals said she wishes he'd have kept quiet about the whole thing and kept their private life private. We're inclined to agree with her, because getting dumped sucks enough without having it drawn out for everyone on the planet to see!
Brown reportedly blindsided Tran with the split to begin with when he released a statement. "I have decided to be single to focus on my career," Brown said. "I love Karrueche very much but I don't want to see her hurt over my friendship with Rihanna. I'd rather be single allowing us to both be happy in our lives." Brown's career has been doing just fine for a while, so we're apprehensive about believing that part!
Breezy and RiRi have been rumored to be hooking up for most of this year, and the video does nothing to dispute that. "It's just, you know, when you share history with somebody, then you tend to fall in love with somebody else, it's kinda difficult," Brown lamented in the much-maligned clip. "It's like, is there such thing as loving two people? I don't know if that's possible, but for me, I just feel like that. Y'all are probably like what the f— is he talking about right now? But I'm being real. I don't wanna hurt either or. I'm just me -- I'm not trying to be a player or a dog." It sounds like this was his bizarre way of trying to ease the blow to Tran, but it sounds like it backfired in a big way.
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The days of the single source of truth, one database for the entire enterprise, are over. Now even a relatively simple mobile application demands more than one database. The good news is that we have entered a golden age of open-source NoSQL databases. Developers have great and readily available open-source technologies with robust communities behind them at their fingertips.
The difficulty is knowing which database is right for which use case. While a number of options are available, according to Redis Labs, these are five NoSQL databases that developers should be familiar with.
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GTADS is short for Grand Theft Auto Dedicated Server. GTADS was originally written as a chat server/client structure to allow players of GTA1 to play each other without having to deal with the directplay ports over the internet. Right now GTADS plans to support a wide range of LAN based games such as GTA2, Twisted Metal 2, and Doom just to name a few. GTADS is java based a such can be run on a wide variety of operating systems and hardware, and keeps the possibilities of supporting non-Windows games open for the future.
The purpose of GTADS is to allow many things for gamers, first of all giving them a choice in how they want to play their games online. There is no tie ins with using GTADS, just a choice. Any user is free to host their own own unique server and players may connect to any GTADS server they would prefer. Secondly, it will give many LAN games a second life on the Internet as things like NAT firewalls and routers have become commonplace now making gameplay difficult and cumbersome for people.
- Chatroom environment for players to talk and meet
- FriendsLists for users to keep track of when their friends sign on/off
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- Proxy that binds multiple game ports into 1 for simplistic gameplay
- Consistent Join/Host interface for setting up multiplayer sessions
- Server commands for the Admin to use from the client
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Autocrat in Dire Straits
Even the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights, closely linked to the state and under the leadership of the former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali had spoken out in favour of ending the state of emergency. There was nothing to justify it, the council declared only days before the extension was whipped through parliament. It continued – "especially as the country is currently experiencing a period of stability."
Severe rioting
The Mubarak regime appears to have a deep mistrust of this stability, and with good reason. As recently as 6 and 7 April, the textile workers' city Al-Mahalla in the Nile delta north of Cairo was the site of severe rioting. The workers of the largest state textiles factory had announced a strike for 6 April, which was prevented by the security forces, but thousands of textile workers gathered in the town centre after the early shift.
Hundreds of mainly young men fought the police on the streets. Cars and shops were burnt out, a passenger train that failed to brake on time drove through a fire burning on the tracks. The protesters pulled down a placard bearing a picture of Mubarak and trampled on the president's face in anger.
The textiles factory had already seen major strikes from December 2006 to September 2007. The authorities partly conceded to the workers' demands – thus inspiring the staff of several hundred other companies across the country to take similar industrial action.
"Major imminent change"
"In the past year alone," says Alaa Al-Aswani, Egypt's most renowned critical author, "there have been 1000 strikes in Egypt. I believe the country is facing major imminent change, and almost everyone can tell."
The government can use the emergency laws to ban strikes; stoppages are illegal in Egypt. The breeding ground for action of this type is the social poverty and misery in which the country exists. A very varied opposition is flourishing on this breeding ground – and the regime relies on the state of emergency to maintain its power.
The so-called emergency law no. 162 was passed in 1958, applied for the first time in 1967 and has been in effect without interruption from 1981 to the present day, throughout Mubarak's entire time in office. Among other things, it enables far-reaching censorship of the country's media and tapping of private telephones at the government's discretion, it bans demonstrations and allows the interior ministry to arrest Egyptians indefinitely.
Severe restrictions on civil liberties
According to Egyptian and international human rights groups, there are currently at least 5000 people in prison without charge or trial on the basis of the emergency laws, many of whom have been there for years. Amnesty International even quotes a figure of to up to 18,000 prisoners.
The state of emergency enables the government to place severe restrictions on civil liberties. During his presidential election campaign, Mubarak promised to repeal the state of emergency and replace it with anti-terror legislation. Instead, it has now been extended for the second time since the last presidential elections in 2005.
The government, Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif announced to parliament on the day of the vote on the state of emergency, has used it strictly to combat terrorism. The normal laws, he claimed, were not suitable for this purpose. And there has allegedly not yet been time to develop efficient anti-terror legislation.
Abuse of anti-terror laws
An argument that critics find ridiculous. "Ten anti-terror laws," Diaa Rashwan from the semi-state Cairo Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies wrote in the independent newspaper Al-Masri al-Youm, "could have been drawn up since Mubarak's pledge to end the state of emergency."
Only weeks beforehand, the chief public prosecutor had ordered the release of Al-Mahalla demonstrators and Internet activists who had called for a general strike as part of the textile workers' protests. According to Human Rights Watch, the interior ministry has put 20 of them back into prison – using the emergency laws.
For regime critics, this is clear evidence of why the country does not yet have anti-terror legislation. It would have to be restricted to combating terrorism and would not be a useful tool for keeping civil society in check.
No possibility to appeal
Alongside the liberal, left-wing and secular opposition, it is above all the Muslim Brotherhood that feels the bite of the state of emergency. In February 2006, a civil court dropped a charge against Khairat Al-Shatir, one of its most prominent leaders, and 15 other Muslim Brothers.
Mubarak himself immediately ordered a new trial, this time before a military tribunal. The accused and 24 other civilians were sentenced to up to ten years in prison on 15 April.
The state of emergency allows the government to try civilians before military tribunals – where there is no possibility to appeal. Yet even the Muslim Brotherhood, the best-organised opposition group in the country, is not the greatest challenge facing the regime.
Bread, not worthy debates
In April, the central statistics authority announced its data on price developments. Bread prices have climbed 48.1 percent in the past twelve months, vegetable oils and fats 45.2 percent, with poultry prices increasing by a staggering 140 percent. In the Muslim Brotherhood, the only role played by social deprivation is in the form of welfare rhetoric. But the people want bread, not worthy debates.
There is no political force on the horizon that could harness the anger over poverty in the form of actions that would really threaten the regime. But the bread riots of January 1977 showed just what this anger might provoke. At least 70 people died in the rioting. Today's situation is just as explosive.
Bahey Edin Hassan, Director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, does not expect that the anti-terror law to replace the state of emergency at some point will strengthen civil rights. "This anti-terror law," he says, "will be the worst in the world."
Jürgen Stryjak
© Qantara.de 2008
Translated from the German by Katy Derbyshire
Hereditary Succession in Egypt
Keeping Up Democratic Appearances
Jordan has a hereditary monarchy, in Syria dictatorial power has been passed on from father to son. In Egypt, too, though formally a democracy, the handover of power is looking more than likely to be a family affair. Jürgen Stryjak reports
Press Freedom in Egypt
Defiant Boycott
Opposition leaders and publishers of independent newspapers in Egypt called for a one-day strike last week after a court in Cairo sentenced four newspaper publishers to one year in prison last month for slandering the president and the governing party. Jürgen Stryjak has the details
Youssef Chahine: "Chaos"
Sympathy with the Upright Citizens of Egypt
Chaos is Youssef Chahine's most recent film. The 81-year-old master of Egyptian cinema has made a social comedy that also makes digs about corruption and arbitrary policing. Ariana Mirza went to see it


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While there are few rules when it comes to denim—and we encourage you to dabble in and don a variety of styles and trends—it's also important to know what is best for your body type. Here are a few tips and tricks of the trade!
If you are curvy, invest in dark hues—sans extreme washes or seaming—that will properly celebrate your femininity without looking fussy. In terms of a fit, a boot cut or slim flare will create a nice overall balance to your body.
We suggest that petite ladies embrace a cropped skinny that hits at the ankle (hello, tailor!) or a long bell-bottom that can hang over your shoe and create the illusion of length.
Boyish-bodied gals should try jeans with seams and stitching to add the look of curves. Also, try rocking a high-waisted skinny that undoubtedly gives shape to almost any body type.
If you are on the sporty side, perhaps soften your shape with a boyfriend-type jean (think: a little baggy and with rolled cuffs) or a slouchy skinny that sits comfortably loose on your hips and legs without hiding your prowess.
Tall gals can really wear the good old skinny in all of its long glory. On the flip side, leggy ladies can also easily wear a wide leg without being overwhelmed with its bigger-on-bottom proportions.
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