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We're all busy, and for many people that means eating on the run. So much so that dining rooms, breakfast nooks, kitchen tables are becoming relics used more for storing paperwork that holding hot family meals.

Listen to Chaz & AJ for the IMPOSSIBLE TRIVIA Question at 9:20am, be the first caller at 203-882-9757 with the correct answer and win a pair of tickets to the LivingSocial Backyard Festival featuring Aerosmith.

News of the Blind Brook superintendent's three-day retirement tops the news from Port Chester and Rye Brook this week.

<![CDATA[RYE - Warner Bros. will be shooting the movie "This is Where I Leave You" in the central business district Sunday and June 23. Production crews will park vehicles in Car Park 4, the lot behind Purchase Street along Library Lane. They also will park along Theodore Fremd Avenue Sunday and Mead Place on June 23, Rye police said. Tina Fey, Jane Fonda and Jason Bateman are reportedly starring in the movie based on Jonathan Tropper's 2009 novel. Another scene was filmed last month in the parking lot of Congregation KTI in Port Chester, where the village lent one of its firetrucks for the shoot. YONKERS - Hundreds of people are expected to participate in the annual Step Out: Walk to Stop Diabetes on Sept. 28 to raise money for the American Diabetes Association in Tibbetts Brook Park, 355 Midland Ave. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.; the walk starts at 10 a.m. This year's two-mile route follows paved trails to a finish line at the park's Health & Wellness Pavilion. The event will also feature free health screenings and family entertainment. To register, volunteer or get more information, visit www.diabetes.org/newyork, call Susan Stein at 914-253-4909, or email her at sstein@diabetes.org. Proceeds will fund diabetes research, information and advocacy. Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano will be the honorary chair of this year's walk, the first one held in his city. "We welcome all to participate, walk along the beautiful paths of Yonkers' Tibbetts Book Park and join in taking the next steps in fighting this debilitating disease," Spano said.

Community leaders from across Westchester County rallied Thursday in favor of mandating kindergarten classes and other topics important to the county.

A group of tenants and landlords have asked a federal judge to trash the city's garbage-collection fee, a cost that critics long have claimed is really just a tax by another name.

Former Grateful Dead member Bob Weir returned to the stage and the Internet last night, taping a new episode of his weekly web series "Weir Here" in front of a live audience at Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael, California.

WESTCHESTER, N.Y. Several Metro-North trains could see delays this summer when the railroad cancels two local morning peak trains, one on both the Harlem and New Haven lines, for nine weeks beginning Monday, July 1 due to scheduled track work in the Bronx.

Sidewalks to shops and train station, houses with front porches furnished with rocking chairs contribute to the lively buzz that makes this such a desirable community.

Port Chester Roundup's Parent Company Behavioral Media Networks Will Be At The AT&T Mobile App Hackathon In Austin Texas

Behavioral Media Networks (BMN), a Connecticut based technology company announced today the launch of their new Cognitive Insights API at the AT&T Mobile App Hackathon in Austin, Texas from June 14-15th. The API promises to deliver psychological insights about users, enabling companies and developers alike to produce relevant information and thus create engaging applications and online experiences.

Kathy Wirt, Chief Product Office at BMN said, “We are entering a new era in cognitive science, in which development of technology is in the spotlight. Our strength is innovation; with this, our drive, we are exceptionally proud today to announce the launch of our Cognitive Insights API of which we believe will have a powerful impact on how messages can be even further honed to a diverse audience.” Further adding, “Our API can be utilized by any organization in any field to better understand the thoughts and feelings that influence their customers’ or audiences’ behaviors. ”

Drawing on research at MIT Media Lab and other top institutions, the CI suite detects users’ personalities, values, attitudes, interests, and lifestyles from user-generated text such as social media posts, SMS, emails, blogs, cover letters and more.

“We are very excited about our new Cognitive Insights:API; even more so, to be launching it at the AT&T Hackathon in Austin,” said Matthew Taylor, Engineer Developer at BMN. “The human mind is the most complicated object in the universe, yet our Cognitive Insights API makes it easier for you to get that one step closer to your users.”

The BMN team will be attending the event next week, to launch and showcase the exciting workings of Cognitive Insights to all attendees. Our VP of Engineering, Robert Decker, will even be one of the event’s key speakers. Mr. Decker is an expert in software design and development, with fifteen years of experience at corporations including Adobe and Symantec.

Port Chester Roundup's Parent Company Behavioral Media Networks offers prize at the AT&T Mobile App Hackathon In Austin, Texas

Behavioral Media Networks (BMN), a Connecticut based technology company, is happy to announce a $500 prize eligible for all participants during the AT&T Mobile App Hackathon, taking place from June 14-15, 2013 in Austin, Texas. This comes as part of BMN’s continuous efforts to encourage constant innovation and development to attain more meaningful and insightful social interactions. The prize will go to the team that imagines the most useful application of BMN’s Cognitive Insight components that can deliver compelling user experiences based on psychographic information inferred from user-generated text.

Some sample apps include: Cofounder selection, Marketing and Advertising, Human Resources Screening, Dating, and Content filtering.

Kathy Wirt, BMN's Chief Product Officer said, “We felt it important for us, to contribute to this innovative and fun event, by offering a prize of our own that complements AT&T’s efforts to help accelerate developers’ towards a successful technology product.”

The BMN team will be at the event next week to launch and showcase the exciting workings of Cognitive Insights to all attendees. Even BMN's VP of Engineering, Robert Decker, has been asked to be one of the key speakers.

The AT&T Mobile App Hackathon is an event produced by the AT&T Developer Program that is designed for attendees (technical & non-technical) to build applications/mobile apps, and compete for prizes across different categories. Most importantly, it introduces the latest cutting edge tools while providing a great space for similar minds to meet.

Learn more at: http://www.bmedianet.com/api.html

ABOUT BEHAVIORAL MEDIA NETWORKS

Behavioral Media Networks (BMN) is a spin-off of the Mind Machine Project (MMP) at MIT. Our focus involves commercializing cognitive modeling technologies for predicting behavior in social media and other behavioral networks.

We are helping major institutions generate behavioral insights from large, unstructured datasets. We're also developing a suite of consumer applications to make social interactions more meaningful.

The ceremony was led by William S. Stuhr Jr. and Commander of the American Legion Post 112, Mickey Reeves and featured speaker Col.

Award winners for 2013 include Lisa Moir of The Blue Pig ice cream store for sustainability; MetroPool for outreach; Reckson for energy; Curtis Instruments for waste management and green products; Verizon for transportation; Diamond Properties for land use; and Crowne Plaza White Plains for water resources.

Port Chester Middle School musicians won several Gold Awards at the New York State School Music Association's annual spring evaluation festival.

Royal Properties has leased 5,630 sq. ft. in the historic Port Chester, N.Y., train station to Heartland Brewery.

A lawsuit to restore t he canceled Route 76 bus line to Rye was dismissed by a Supreme Court judge Wednesday.

The special-education system can be a maddening maze of laws, procedures and jargon for the most connected suburban parents.

The next BBQ Blowout from Finger on the Pulse Presents will be on Tuesday, June 11 at Good Co.

David Mirvish is pleased to present THE RASCALS: ONCE UPON A DREAM the critically acclaimed, sold-out new Broadway show, for a strictly limited engagement of 10 performances at the historic Royal Alexandra Theatre.

Port Chester High School will start offering an International Baccalaureate program this fall and become the fourth Westchester County school district to adopt the curriculum.