Wednesday, September 25, 2013
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Monday, September 9, 2013
celebrate the truth!
THE TRUTH SALUTE...Father Mike Pfleger: 2o Years of Giving
Correspondent: MG Media
No one can say that Father Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina Church and founder of The Ark of St. Sabina: A Shelter From Urban Storms does not care about his beloved community. He has, for decades, dedicated himself to serving the people of the Auburn Gresham, where the over 100 year sanctuary holds down under-served community, and does so without hesitation or reservation. He has even put his career as a Catholic priest in jeopardy multiple times to aligning his concerns with the community than the Catholic hierarchy.
Pfleger has sometimes been the single driving force bringing awareness to issues like poverty, unemployment and youth violence in the city of Chicago. He has also been a target of street gangs who see him as treat to their way of underground street and drug culture. But overall, he has survived the naysayers and the detractors who says a white man can't change the direction of the hood.
Well, for 20 years, he has done just that. And he will be rewarded for his tireless effort to transform the lives of tens of dozens of young people over his tenure as the head of The Ark of St. Sabina. Father Pfleger is also the founder of the Employment Resource Center, the Ark Youth Center, Saint Sabina Social Service Center, Thea Bowman Spiritual Advance Center, Samaritan House for the homeless, Saint Sabina 80-unit Elders Village and the Beloved Community, Inc.
As a minister, Pfleger has sought to break down the walls of racism and denominationalism by building unity among all people founded on truth and based on Jesus’ command to love one another. This holy calling has led him to be parent, a preacher, a teacher, a lecturer and an activist. However, he believes his most important role is an errand boy for Jesus!
And on Thursday, September 19, the entire city of Chicago will honor Pfleger during a20th Anniversary Celebration of The ARK of St. Sabina at 1840 W. Hubbard (Chicago). This momentous event, Chaired by Mary Mitchell of the Chicago Sun-Times, will also celebrate the work and accomplishments of five distinguished guests: The HonorableJacqueline Collins, Senator, 16th Legislative District; Rev. Yehiel Curry, Pastor, Shekinah Chapel Lutheran Church; Monica Haslip, Executive Director, Little Black Pearl Workshop; Dr. Dominica McBride, Founder & CEO, Become, Inc.; and David Whittaker, Executive Director, Chicago Area Project.
The money raised at this event will provide continued support to their after-school program and youth in the community. The celebration will feature many more esteemed guests, food, live entertainment, cocktails and a silent auction. For more details or to purchase tickets, call Jocelyn Jones or Marchae Miller at 773-483-4333 or go towww.thearkofstsabina.org.
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Sunday, September 8, 2013
hacker resistent passwords
Hacker-resistant passwords — Ted Demopoulos
Figuring out most passwords is trivial for hackers, the NSA, and even me. Lots of free tools to “crack” and guess passwords are available. We “good guys” call this “password auditing” instead of “cracking” usually.
Also, we have far too many passwords to remember.
The standard advice of using a different password for every site or service and never writing passwords down is simply wrong. Here is what I suggest.
1) For very important sites (e.g., banking, website access) use a unique password, change it at least occasionally, and make sure it is a great password. A great password is long (I like 10+ characters), NOT a dictionary word, name, or anything related to you that could be guessed (like your kids’ names concatenated together), and contains letters, digits, and other characters as well.
- “redsox” is a horrible password
- “R3ds0x” is better but still too short and “cracker” programs do try simple substitutions like “3” for “e” and “0” for “o”
- “4Aug!985R3ds0x” is a great password, and maybe if you are a massive Red Sox fan and that is an important date for you it is simple to remember.
2) For less-important and non-important sites, like newspaper sites and others that make you register, use a common password that is relatively easy to remember and don’t worry about it.
You can also go to 3 tiers of passwords: Passwords for critical sites, passwords for less-important sites, and a generic password for all others.
Now if you have a number of very important sites and hence passwords, they can be hard to remember. Feel free to write them down if necessary, and treat them like credit cards! You do not leave your credit card info lying around, do you? (For example, written on a PostIt note on your monitor?) And if you lose your wallet/purse, you would cancel/change all the cards IMMEDIATELY, right?
So, how do you determine which passwords are most critical, other than perhaps common sense or gut feel? Ask the question, “How bad could it be if someone got into this account?”
Saturday, September 7, 2013
the butler, interview with cuba gooding, jr.
Cuba Gooding, Jr. was born in the Bronx on January 2, 1968, but raised in Los Angeles from the age of 4 on. Best known for his Oscar-winning portrayal of the charmingly-arrogant Rod “Show Me the Money!” Tidwell in Cameron Crowe’s Jerry Maguire, he first found fame in 1991 when he received critical acclaim for his performance in John Singleton’s coming-of-age classic Boyz n the Hood.
Cuba followed-up that success with roles in As Good as It Gets, What Dreams May Come, and the Oscar-nominated A Few Good Men. The versatile thespian’s repertoire also includes roles in pictures ranging from Red Tails to Radio to Men of Honor to Pearl Harbor to American Gangster to Shadowboxer to Boat Trip to Snow Dogs to Norbit.
Among his upcoming big screen projects are Don Jon and the sequel Machete Kills. On television, he played the title character in the award-winning Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, as well as in Firelight, the highest rated Hallmark Hall of Fame movie ever.
A decade ago, Cuba’s extraordinary achievements were recognized when he was awarded with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Here, he talks about his work opposite Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey in Lee Daniels’ The Butler.
Kam Williams: Hi Cuba, appreciate the time.
Cuba Gooding, Jr: Anytime, Kam. How are ya, buddy?
KW: Great, and you?
CG: Very well, thank you.
KW: What interested you in The Butler?
CG: Well, to give you a little history, Lee Daniels and I had been friends even before he was a producer, manager or casting director. When he offered me the role of the shadowboxer in Shadowboxer, I was invited into the editing room. We’ve done this thing throughout his career from Precious on, where he sends me screenplays that he’s considering. So, I feel like this is an invested relationship I have with him. He sent me this screenplay about five years ago, suggesting that I might be the butler.
KW: Were you upset when you didn’t land the title role?
CG: No, one thing led to another in casting choices, and now I couldn’t imagine this movie without Forest Whitaker playing the lead and Oprah playing his wife. I think they’re both deserving of Oscar nominations. Their relationship in the movie’s so powerful, and so is Forest’s with David Oyelowo’s character.
KW: You did a great job, too.
CG: Thanks. It just feels so good to be involved again with a movie that’s socially relevant. I recently met a 27 year-old white male who admitted that he didn’t know about the sit-ins until seeing this movie’s scene with the kids being refused service in a segregated diner. And it hit me how we can so easily forget, because I’m in my forties. There’s such a disconnect from the next generation in terms of all the brutality. That’s why it feels good to be a part of this film which revisits that time period and talks about what transpired.
KW: Especially because it tackles the material from a fresh perspective.
CG: It’s interesting, too, because when Django Unchained came out, so many people were alienated by it, while others who thought it was just a really cool ride from Quentin Tarantino said, “Get over it!” If you look at the latter group, a lot of them were really young kids who had a disconnect from slavery. To them, all they saw was their hero being freed, shooting back, saving the day and getting his girl. It’s funny, I started dating my wife, who’s Caucasian with blonde hair and blue eyes, in 1987. I got hate mail when I did Boyz n the Hood saying stuff like, “I can’t believe your girlfriend is white.” But I hadn’t grown up in the South back in the days when blacks were lynched for even looking at a white woman. And when you look at what I did today, it’s elementary compared to the attention being paid to the issue of same-sex marriage. So, we’ve moved away for the better, but we just can’t afford to forget all the sacrifices and trials and tribulations.
KW: How much research did you have to do to prepare for the role?
CG: Well, I’d been researching and gathering information on the subject for several years for both this script and for a Martin Luther King story about Selma. So, it’s a time period I’d already become pretty well-versed in.
KW: Editor/Legist Patricia Turnier asks: How similar are you to your character in The Butler, Carter Wilson?
CG: I AM that guy! [LOL] Sometimes, I can be pretty goofy, and a bit of an exhibitionist. I don’t think I’m quite as free with the lips as he is, but I can tell a joke or two. Some of those lines I ad-libbed.
KW: How emotionally affected were you seeing the film for the first time?
CG: I was a wreck. I sat and hugged Pam [producer Pam Williams] like someone had died in the family. And, to be honest with you, Kam, it wasn’t so much the history lesson, but simply that my eldest son who’s 18 was going off to college, and I couldn’t get back to L.A. to see him off when he left because I was stuck in New York. The father-son relationship just hit me, man, especially the scene where Cecil Gaines says goodbye to his son departing for college. What I experienced wasn’t a feeling of sadness, but rather a realization of this higher calling in life, and how we’re all a part of this chain.
KW: Speaking of your being in New York, Harriet Pakula-Teweles asks: How did you enjoy being on Broadway? What play were you doing, A Trip to Bountiful?
CG: Yes, sir, since February. I loved it. I actually started in theater, that’s where an agent found me in ’86, I was doing a Shakespeare festival. On the stage, if you don’t understand every word of what you’re saying, it is apparent in your countenance. So, I was always about living the character. Then I got stolen away by TV where I got my start as MacGyver’s sidekick for awhile which was easy to phone in. You know the guy, you know the peril, and you know how to save the day. So, I leapt at this opportunity to go back, and it reignited my creativity. Just to be across from Cicely Tyson on that stage every day, was great. My creative passion is back!
KW: Harriet also asks: With so many classic films being redone, is there a remake you'd like to star in?
CG: That’s an interesting question I’ve never been asked. Just last night, literary, I was sitting around talking with some friends about those old movies with a Broadway theme. Maybe one of those.
KW: The Viola Davis question: What’s the difference between who you are at home as opposed to the person we see on the red carpet?
CG: Well, I smile a lot more on the red carpet.
KW: The Anthony Anderson question: If you could have a superpower, which one would you choose?
CG: I would fly. I’ve been dreaming about flying since I was 5 years-old.
KW: The Gabby Douglas question: If you had to choose another profession, what would that be?
CG: Social work. Or maybe coaching kids sports. I’ve always been a people person. It would have to be something where I could help people.
KW: Attorney Bernadette Beekman asks: What is your favorite charity?
CG: The Boys and Girls Clubs of America is one of them. I have a few.
KW: Can you give me a Cuba Gooding, Jr. question to ask other celebrities?
CG: Yeah, what still scares you?
KW: Thanks, and thanks again for the time, Cuba.
CG: My pleasure, Kam.
courtesy of www.BeanSoupTimes.com
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Tuesday is the Million Father March!
National Fathers Take Your
Children To School Day
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
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