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The Notes crew first spotted violist Juan Miguel Hernandez, First Prize winner of the 2009 Brahms Competition and founding member of the Harlem Quartet, down in the 65th Street Subway Station in New York City.
It was not the most romantic of settings for a first meeting, grant you, but it certainly left an impression on a certain pair of our writers. One even called him "extraordinary-looking," a superlative usually reserved these days for the likes of Hollywood "Boys-du-Jour."
The first thing we noticed about rising-star Juan Miguel Hernandez: His hair. The second: The bevy of young beauties shadowing his every move as he breezed from one subway car to the next. Rather than join the entourage (we do have pride, after all), we instead resolved to observe from afar, trailing Juan Miguel and his lady friends, just out of sight.
It wasn't long before the reasons for the current hype surrounding the young French-Canadian became abundantly clear. Let's just get obvious out of the way, shall we? He's tall with a lithe, athletic form, and a strong presence that commands attention. He can't help but turn heads as he brushes past (mostly long-haired heads, we might add), with his easygoing demeanor and polished confidence, coupled with a rich sonority to his laughter that is matched only by the velvety charms of his viola playing.
AND? The coveted secret behind the man's bristling charisma is the fact that he's…well, sort of goofy! Throughout his twenty-minute subway ride uptown, Hernandez had his entire coterie in waves of sparkling giggles with his animated antics - which, we did we fail to mention, happened to be in English and French?
After many hours of stalking--err, we mean asking--Hernandez agreed to a phone interview between concert stops in London and Chicago.
Notes: Can you tell us what you felt at the moment when you learned you had won at The Brahms Competition?
Well, I don't really know how I felt, to tell you the truth, but I can tell you how it happened…They announced the Third Prize winner…then Second Prize, and then…well then, they announced the First Prize winner, but it was completely in German…so all I really heard was "[DER, DIE, DAS] Juan Miguel Hernandez [LOUD APPLAUSE]." I thought "Oh ****, really?!" I was so surprised because honestly, I originally did this competition to push and challenge myself in new ways, and I never expected even to make it to the finals, let alone to win!
Notes: You are also a founding-member of the Harlem Quartet, right?
Yes. In 2006, I won the Sphinx Competition in their Senior Divison. That summer, the Organization called me to ask whether I would like to create a quartet of past Sphinx winners. Our first concert was at Carnegie Hall. We have been so fortunate, we found a great chemistry and the quartet developed quickly - within a few months, we had a manager and everything, and then we went straight out on the road. And we haven't stopped since. It's been a wild ride so far.
Notes: We understand that in addition to your fine classical performances, you guys also dabble in jazz.
You know, in being part of the Harlem Quartet, I have been exposed to so many different types of great music, and so it has opened up my eyes and ears to the world of jazz. I was always interested in it but of course I never really tried to explore it in-depth…We recently played a string quartet by Wynton Marsalis called "At The Octoroon Balls," and it's a musical portrait of New Orleans, in seven parts. Each of the movements represents a different aspect of the city…from the fiddlers of the city to a house of ill-repute, to the cultural exchange between New Orleans and Cuba, all the way to mating calls of local critters! The entire piece is a fantastic and incredibly vivid journey, with many elements of jazz. And the music allows for freedom in a very different way than the more standard classical repertoire.
Notes: Do you guys consider yourselves a crossover group, given the diversity of your repertoire?
In the classical music world, I notice that everyone is trying to find ways to attract new audiences, to keep up with the modern world and its changes. And I think because of that, groups and people are quickly categorized as either classical or jazz or cross-over groups, and some invisible divide seems to exist, that you can't be more than one. But I think the best way to engage your audiences is just to follow your creative interests. The Harlem Quartet is doing something different just by exploring new repertoire because we are a classical group but we also play jazz…
So to answer your question, I would not say we are cross-over, but more because we try not to categorize or limit ourselves. There's nothing wrong with cross-over, it's very popular for a reason. We just try and incorporate variety in our programs to give our audiences the most fulfilling experience possible.
Notes: What inspires you about Educational Outreach performance, which the Harlem Quartet clearly does a lot of?
What inspires me when I play music in general – when I think of it – is the palette emotions I am able to communicate, to really embrace what I am feeling at that moment…feeling connected to the rest of the world and to great people all over the world, not only through my own art -- but through theirs. So Educational Outreach, to me, is part of that personal growth and journey as much as it is about bringing music to new listeners. It's about connecting with new people in new ways.
Many of the kids we play for, a lot of them either have a misconception about what classical music is, or they are just unaware of what it's about. So we really try to encourage them to try it for themselves and show them that it's cool. We go out there put on a fun and compelling show. The reaction we get from these kids is just overwhelming, uplifting and…and so heartwarming.
Notes: We imagine you have plenty of time to read on the road. What's your favorite book? Anecdote?
The Art of Happiness by Howard C. Cutler, definitely, is my favorite book. Sometimes you will watch a movie and something inspires you, for whatever reason, to become a better person. It happens in concerts, and it happens through great books. The Art of Happiness just grabbed me in the right spot in my heart and I felt rejuvenated; it made me want to always strive to grow and be a better person.
And anecdote?…Uhh…well, one of my favorite French quotes is by Molière: "Le plus grand faible des hommes, c'est l'amour qu'ils ont de la vie." It means: "Man's greatest weakness is his love of life."


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Shelton Mayor Mark Lauretti is running for governor — and even has a Facebook page to prove it.
Launched Dec. 26, "Lauretti for Governor" has attracted 186 "Likes" on the social network by the afternoon of Jan. 2 and a handful of posts of support and questions.
The mayor, who has taken a few tentative jabs at running for higher office in the past, is apparently for real this time.
In fact, he's even appearing on a Sunday political talk show.
And a "Campaign Kick Off" is scheduled for Jan. 9 at 6:30 p.m. at the Inn at Villa Bianca on Seymour's Roosevelt Drive.
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Developers in Melbourne arrive in Brisbane to invest and create big plans for skyscraper inner city apartments, a common venue over the past few years. Meanwhile, Courier Companies in Melbourne stand by and await clients for relocating their goods.
While there are those constructing high-rises, there are also those delayed in the construction as Brisbane has an oversupply of apartments.
Aroundsame time last year, Hamilton Corporation was sparkling two Fortitude Valley apartment projects.They declared 80% of its Elixir apartment projects at Robertson Street was pre-sold, while it also kicked off a 111-apartment project at Berwick Street. Courier Companies in Melbourne hopefully expect clients to utilize their services in relocating to these areas.
Driving down Robertson Street will make you observe still a big hole on the ground. Also, Berwick Street has a big 'For Lease' sign even if it was out for sale last year.
Both sites were purchased for more than $10M by two companies with outstanding connection of former captain Bruce Monteath, who lead his team to the last VFL premiership in 1980.
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Another project in Fortitude Valley has also been put aside for the next cycle. It may greatly affect the Courier Companies in Melbourne.
Two years ago, BPM funded $16.75M for at Wickham Street where it targeted to develop a Night Edge Tower with around 270 apartments.
The property, previouslythe office of Lamborghini, was antecedently managed by Adelaide-based.
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We fully believe BMP has a 12-to-24 months leasing technique in play, which options remain assessed.
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OpenCorp developer remains optimistic about building Brisbane apartments. Courier Companies in Melbourne are also optimistic on the boost of these businesses.
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You may notice that I've been playing with photo editing a little bit. A few months ago, I took a Lightroom photo editing class with Pei Ketron. I think I may have gone a little too light/washed out/blue in these photos but I'd love to get your thoughts. And if anyone know of any good Lightroom presets or tips/tricks for fashion photography, I'd love to hear them! I still haven't really refined the style or look I want to portray in my photos… it takes me FOREVER to make a decision on anything HA!
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Horowitz Speaks Out Against the Campus Blacklist · 04 May 2006
By Kevin Howe--Monterey Herald--05/05/06
Conservative author David Horowitz speaks at CSU-Monterey Bay on Thursday.A university where 90 percent of the professors are leftists probably has a blacklist against conservatives, said leftist-turned-conservative author and commentator David Horowitz.
CSU-Monterey Bay, where Horowitz brought his "campaign for academic freedom" Thursday, is such a campus, he said, a place where not one faculty member would sponsor a politically conservative club and where the president of the university's Republican Club, Christy Cozby, has received death threats.
Horowitz's appearance was sponsored by the university's Associated Students, the Republican Club and Young America's Foundation, and it drew a friendly audience of about 250 to the 500-seat university ballroom.
A student told him that he was "the first conservative speaker on campus in living memory," Horowitz said, adding that the Republican Club "won a big victory in getting the student government to fund a portion of this. There was a huge battle to get the pitiful funding for this event."
That unwillingness to sponsor venues for conservative ideas is "a travesty in a state as politically diverse as this state is," Horowitz said.
"The Taliban might as well be running the university."
The word "liberal" is constantly misused when applied to political debate on college campuses, he said. The proper terms are "leftist, communist, totalitarian." A liberal, Horowitz said, is willing to hear both sides of an argument.
Universities have become political platforms for the left, Horowitz contended, and mixing politics with any institution -- the military, religion or education -- "is a bad idea."
"You can learn a lot about political warfare in a political party, but not about reality," he said. Research that might lead down a path that "you've already decided is politically incorrect" becomes impossible, and professors whose expertise might lie in physics, chemistry, the arts or literature waste classroom time haranguing students with their predominantly leftist political views.
It is, said Horowitz, "indoctrination, not education," and students can get unfounded opinion or indoctrination on any street corner, over the radio and television. "You only have four years to get an education."
Professors, he said, "should be professional," offering expert instruction on the subjects they know about. Anything else "is a form of consumer fraud."
He urged students to seek a "bill of rights" for their university, similar to that adopted at Princeton University. Supporters distributed the "little red book" of Students for Academic Freedom, in conscious parody of "Quotations from Mao Tse Tung," the "little red book" that explained to the people of China the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party.
Horowitz offered a conservative view on a number of current events:
• The war in Iraq: It liberated 50 million Muslims, toppled an evil regime and gave women there the vote "for the first time since the Garden of Eden."
Arguments over the "casus belli" of the war -- weapons of mass destruction -- are no more relevant than the firing on Fort Sumter was on the outcome of the American Civil War.
"We've gotten into a serious place in this country," he said. "The Democratic Party and the left have defected to an enemy in time of war for the first time in our history."
• Immigration: Mexico is poor, not because it lacks resources, but because it is a country where the government and law enforcement can't be trusted, a "rotten culture of corruption and oppression."
Illegal Mexican immigrants are "the poorest of the poor" in the United States, but not only do they live better than they did in Mexico, they are also wealthy enough to send $65 billion a year back to their families. "How great is that?"
The left, he said, is the greatest threat to poor blacks and Latinos. Their politicians "have their bootheels on the necks of the poor" and their policies destroy educational and economic opportunity in America's inner cities.
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Amazon's Prime Exclusive program is expanding.
Amazon is adding the Alcatel A30 and Moto G5 Plus to its Prime Exclusive program. The Alcatel A30 is priced at $59.99 ($40 off), while the 2GB/32GB version of the Moto G5 Plus is $184.99 ($45 off) and the 4GB/64GB model is $239.99 ($60 off).
All three phones are now available for pre-order. The Alcatel A30 will launch on April 19, while the Moto G5 Plus will be released on March 31.
The Prime Exclusive program offers discounted smartphones to Amazon Prime subscribers. The phones feature personalized offers and ads on their lock screens and also include several preloaded Amazon apps. In exchange for having all of that Amazon in your face, you get a pretty significant discount on a new, unlocked Android smartphone.
The Moto G5 Plus includes specs like a 5.2-inch 1920×1080 display, 12-megapixel rear and 5-megapixel front cameras, an octa-core Snapdragon 625 processor, and a 3000mAh battery. There's also a microSD slot onboard, and Android 7.0 Nougat comes preloaded on the device.
Meanwhile, the Alcatel A30 packs a 5-inch HD display, quad-core Snapdragon 210 processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, and a microSD slot. There's also an 8-megapixel camera on its rear, a 5-megapixel camera on its face, and Android 7.0 Nougat.
The thought of having Amazon ads on your home screen may not sound super appealing, but if you're willing to deal with them, you can get a pretty solid discount on a new Android smartphone. The good news is that because the offers are personalized, these ads might actually show you some deals that you'll be interested in.
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For every die-hard guitar enthusiast, the one person worth emulating is Slash because he strums the instrument like no one else. It is no easy feat to get to that level; it takes time, patience, considerable talent, a love for the guitar, a love for music, medley, and the formula to never give up even if the coach does.
You can opt for a guitar school to guide you in learning a guitar. Ossia Music School covers lessons from beginners to advanced. You should visit their page here: http://ossia.edu.sg/course/guitar
Here are the keystrokes to getting it right and hoping to be the best Slash of the 21st century.
Buy the right instrument – make sure that an expert guides you during the purchase. This is one of the most crucial features of getting the tone right.
The next step is to seek out a coach at the drum class in Singapore and learn the basics. Never miss a session it makes a big difference. But, if you do, always make it a point to catch up with the class. It helps down the line.
Learn the format of the guitar and love it right from the strings to the bridge, the head, the nut, the neck, the sound hole, the truss, the pick and so on and so forth. Any great guitarist ensures that s/he gets these basic facts down to the tee.
Understanding the nuance of the guitar is not an easy ride for a newbie. It takes some careful groundwork and extensive repeat sessions to get the formula in tune. Nothing can be as annoying as an unpopular sound that grates on your nerves and is painful to the ears.
Learning to play by ear is one of the possibilities in getting it right. When a person has it in her/him from the get and an affinity to carve a niche in music, it is best to get going. One major deterrent that may come your way is the big time people who have been to the best schools. If you have the skills and the aptitude you can get your Slash mojo on, and how!
Learning to read music is a very predominant feature in understanding harmony, symphony, sound, clarity and a host of other popular music driven aspects. The basic notes are relevant for a long-term innings in the realm of playing the sexiest instrument of all time.
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Financial markets seem to be bracing for a global recession.
According to analysts at Citi, financial markets are moving toward pricing in a global growth recession even as economic data indicates such a recession is by no means inevitable.
The caveat is that Citi defines a global growth recession as global gross-domestic-product growth of less than 2%. The International Monetary Fund, for its part, expects global GDP to grow by 3.4% this year.
"A global growth recession is far from assured but financial markets seem to be on their way to pricing one in," Citi wrote on Thursday.
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28 Million People Watched Two and a Half Men Last Night
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Boom! Monday night's season premiere of Two and a Half Men drew 27.7 million rubberneckers (or, if you prefer, viewers) and scored a massive 10.3 rating among adults 18 to 49, according to preliminary Nielsen data. We're pretty certain that's the biggest audience in Men history, and likely the best numbers for a TV sitcom since the 2005 finale of Everybody Loves Raymond drew around 32 million. More recently, last May's American Idol finale attracted a bigger overall audience (over 29 million viewers) but a smaller demo score (9.2 rating). We'll have more on Monday's other premieres later this morning, but for now, feel free to drop your own "winning" or "tiger blood" references in the comments below.
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Nikon Coolpix P100There's a lot to like about the Nikon Coolpix P100, but you'll need to keep your photo quality expectations in check to really enjoy it.
>> Hi I 'm Josh Goldman, Senior Editor for CNET reviews and this is Nikon Coolpix P100. It's Nikon's top of the line mega zoom camera extending out to 26X. It's also a 26 millimeter equivalent wide-angle lens on front. On back is a 3-inch vari-angle LCD, pulls out, swings up and down. There's also an electronic viewfinder which is pretty key if you have any hopes of holding this camera still while shooting with the lens zoomed out. The control layout is fairly straightforward; on top is a shooting mode dial for everything from full manual mode to Nikon's auto scene recognition mode. And there's a wheel here to on back for easily changing your shutter speed and aperture. The P100 has two movie modes--regular and video up to 1080P HD or a high speed up to 240 frames per second. Again this switch here let's you switch between the two and start recording quickly with this dedicated record button. The optical zoom does work while shooting but it's picked up by the stereo mic on top as is the sound of the continuous autofocus which you'll have to turn on if you use the zoom during recording. Along with the lens the other highlight component is the 10 megapixel backside illuminated, cema [assumed spelling] censor which improves shooting speed and helps reduce noise in lowlight photos. And this camera is fast. It's one of the fastest mega-zoom camera we've tested; not only with continuous shooting but startup, shutter lag and shop times were also very good. There's a fun high-speed sports continuous mode too that captures at a reduced resolution up to 120 frames per second. The thing is for all of the P100's features and abilities; the photo quality just isn't there. So if you're expecting digital SLR quality photos simply because this is a high-end camera with long lens and SLR style design, you're going to be disappointed. If you can accept that the cost gets you the features sand not superb photos, you'll probably like this camera quite a bit. I'm Josh Goldman and that's a look at the Nikon Coolpix P100.


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Families of terrorist attack victims on the Indonesian island of Bali have marked the first anniversary of the car bombing that killed more than 200 people and devastated tourism. Australian Prime Minister John Howard Sunday laid a wreath at the site of the attack after attending a ceremony that reflected the cultures and religions of those who died.
To the sound of Christian hymns and traditional Balinese music, families of the victims of last year's Bali bombings Sunday remembered their loved ones.
The ceremony took place at an open-air theater near the ocean, not far from the site of the night club attack one year ago. The attack killed 202 people, most of them Australian and Indonesian, as well as people from 20 other nations.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard told the gathering that the Bali bombings brought the people of Australia and Indonesia closer together.
He thanked Indonesian officials for police work that has seen nearly two dozen individuals convicted for the attack. "Australia will never forget the 12th of October 2002. But it has taught us a number of things about ourselves. It has taught us about our strengths. It has taught us about the need to cooperate with others in the ongoing fight against the terrible deeds and the terrible hatred that caused so much pain and so much misery a year ago today," Mr. Howard said.
Indonesia's Political and Security Affairs Minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said people still do not understand the hatred that led some individuals to kill innocent people.
But he vowed that Indonesians will bring to justice all of those responsible, saying they have no place in Indonesian society. "The people of Indonesia are resolute in condemning terrorist attacks as a travesty of the true teachings of all religions, which promote peace, tolerance and brotherhood," Mr. Susilo said.
A senior leader of Bali's Hindu community, Gusti Made Ngurah, offered a prayer for the victims. Reverend Gusti prayed that the victims be given an appropriate place in the next life and the families be given strength to move on. And he asked for God's help in bringing peace to the world.
Prayers were also offered by Muslim and Christian clerics. The names of the dead were called out, one by one.
And to the strains of Australia's unofficial national anthem, "Waltzing Matilda," the crowd of mourners bid farewell to their loved ones.
Some mourners said afterwards they felt closure from the ceremony. Others, however, said they would be back next year.


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Living a spiritual life is always a matter of conscious choice. In these times when so many things call out to us demanding our attention, and our allegiance, we have to be conscious of how and where we expend our energies. Rather than allowing ourselves to get pulled in the direction of the dualities that want to separate us, or letting ourselves react in ways we might regret, we have to make a conscious effort to stay centered so we will be able to move toward the oneness that is intended to bring us together as one human family.
In my new book, The Story of Our Time: From Duality to Interconnectedness to Oneness, I offer a full "Meditation For Living in Oneness" which applies the principle of Right Mindfulness to put aside all notions of duality and separateness and instead focus on what is essential and lasting – the oneness that pervades all of reality. This meditation – and the seven principles that frame the book – will help you feel more connected to the greater whole and give you a deeper sense of unity with all things. Please take this brief but powerful Oneness Pledge …
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The mission of the Oneness Pledge initiative is to build an ever-expanding community in which everyone is committed to focusing all their energies on building a culture of oneness. Please join this most vital global movement of our time by taking the Oneness Pledge!
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It's absolutely fitting that Dame Shirley Bassey should feature in a television season about mixed-race Britons, although, ironically, Shirley's colour doesn't figure highly in this brief, hagiographic biopic of the girl from Tiger Bay starring Misfits' Ruth Negga. If this account is to be believed, Dame Shirley came up against fairly little discrimination in her climb up the showbiz ladder.
The drama tracks Bassey's first 30 years, charting her transformation from poverty-stricken Cardiff kid to fully-fledged, diamond-encrusted diva in the mid-1960s.
Negga gives a powerhouse performance as Shirley, her liquid eyes conveying the vulnerability behind the theatrical veneer. Kudos, too, to the wonderful Lesley Sharp, who has a whiff of Ena Sharples about her as Eliza, the bossy mother who pushed Bassey forward.
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David Bezmozgis, a writer and filmmaker, is the Director of the Humber School for Writers. He is the author of Natasha and Other Stories, The Free World and The Betrayers.
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John Bourgeois is the Program Director for Acting for Film and Televison at Humber College. He holds a BA in English Literature and Theatre from Concordia University and is an alumni of the Webber-Douglas Academy in London England.
Program Director, Music
As Humber's Director of Music, Denny Christianson brings a wealth of music business experience to the job. e spent several years on TV with Sammy Davis, Jr., recorded numerous movie soundtracks, hundreds of commercials and has served as producer for 15 albums.
Program Director, Comedy Writing & Performance
An award-winning author and screenwriter, Globe and Mail columnist Jeffrey Simpson called Andrew "the foremost chronicler of Canadian comedy." He writes the "Road Sage" humour column for the Globe and Mail.
Program Director, Television Writing & Producing
Lorne Frohman is an acclaimed comedy writer and producer with over forty years of experience working on sitcoms, variety shows, children's series, and late-night television programming.
Program Director, Arts Administration & Cultural Management
Anne Frost began work in the arts at Keyano Theatre, Fort McMurray, Alberta; she moved to Toronto in the 1980s and worked for the Toronto Theatre Alliance's Dora Mavor Moore Awards and Jeunesses musicals/Youth and Music Canada.
Program Director, Theatre Production
Tanya Greve is thrilled to be returning to Humber as an instructor in Theatre Production this year. Having graduated from the University of Toronto Drama Program in 1993, she has been a working stage manager since graduation.
Program Director, Theatre Performance
Tatiana Jennings is an actor, director, dancer and choreographer. Born and raised in Moscow, she received a degree in theatre and film from the Academy of Theatre Arts, where she also studied dance.
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Alison Maclean has held a wide variety of executive positions in publishing, including associate publisher at Doubleday/ Seal and at Madison Press Books, and global resource manager at Wiley.
Program Director, Music Business
Thom McKercher, director of Humber's Music Business graduate certificate program, is a music professional with almost 30 years of experience on both the label and retail sides of the music industry.
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Director of both the Community Music School and the Intro to Commercial/Jazz Music Program at Humber College, Catherine has been active in education for over thirty-five years.
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"Every year in the past Elton has played on a red piano. I did a red piano this year just for fun," said Chef Wayne Elias of Crumble Catering.
Elias is the man in charge of creating the gastronomical goodies that will be served to more than 700 guests at Sunday's event at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood.
"We cook special orders, we take care of everybody's personal needs," said Elias. "It is a little hairy but it's a lot of fun at the same time."
Elias, who is the owner of the Vermont Restaurant and Crumble Catering, has created an Italian based menu at Sir Elton John's request.
"We're doing something Italian themed; fresh, simple, clean, using all organic produce and fish," said Elias.
But the event Sunday is more than just fine food and glamour. It's also the top fundraiser for the Elton John AIDS Foundation, which has raised more than $175 million in AIDS research and support.
"We are one of the ten largest foundations in this country supporting the issue of HIV," said the Elton John AIDS Foundation Director Scott Campbell.
Campbell says the party started as an intimate affair at a Beverly Hills restaurant that raised $300,000. Eighteen years later, the party is expected to raise $4.5 million.
"Elton is very involved. In fact I just talked to him on the phone because he always wants updates on who's coming and what we're doing," said Campbell. "He gets here soon and he's extremely involved. This is a big thing."
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These letters stood above a movie theatre near my house for near seventy years before the entire building was demolished, the letters I salvaged on the evening before they were to be taken to the dump. The decision to put them together as a piece of art came not on its own, but out of an invitation to help with an exhibition.
A friend suggested I add an explanation about the former theatre—why it's important—alongside the piece, which I shied away from immediately. Very much like a film itself, the story is fact—a chronology that doesn't change, even as everything around it does. And as it does, that original piece is seen, again and again, changing only in the perspective of those who watch it.
The meaning, then, lies with the individual. Like a performance, the purpose is derived from the experience. Over time, the actors will enter and exit, the sets build up and break down, and somewhere in the middle, the audience is left to decide what it means.


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Supercells -- rotating thunderstorms which sometimes produce tornadoes -- are not only a U.S. phenomenon. They can happen anywhere the ingredients are right: moisture, instability, lift, and vertical shear (change in wind with height). The supercell in this picture formed after dark on the Serranias del Burro (a.k.a. Sierra del Huacha), a range of Mexican mountains west of Del Rio, Texas, and part of the northern Sierra Madre Oriental. [See the topographic image for geography of the area.]
The four needed ingredients for supercells came together rapidly on the night of March 22-23, 2000, in northeastern Mexico. As an upper level trough over Arizona moved eastward toward southwest Texas, winds aloft strengthened, increasing vertical shear. The trough also caused moisture-laden air from the Gulf of Mexico to move northwestward, up the valleys of the Rio Grande and the Mexican Rio Sabinas. Forced to rise thousands of feet by the sharp ascent up the east slopes of the Serranias del Burro, some of this moist and unstable air broke through a capping inversion and produced thunderstorms. One of these storms became a very intense supercell -- on radar, rivalling all but a few U.S. thunderstorms per year for strength and definition. A long, slow-loading javascript reflectivity loop (~850K) shows about 5 hours out of this storm's lifetime, from about half an hour after formation through about 2 hours before it dissipated.
There may have been a strong or violent tornado in this supercell, at the time of the image. The storm had an extremely well-defined hook echo -- a common signature of storms capable of producing tornadoes -- while moving northeast off the higher terrain toward the Rio Grande. The strongest rotation (mesocyclone) in the supercell was during this stage, while still in Mexico. A storm-relative velocity image from 10 minutes later showed gate-to-gate (side-by-side) speeds reaching the highest they can on the display scale -- 50 or more knots (at least 58 mph) of wind toward the radar, right beside 50 knots or more of wind away, in the low levels of the storm. This meant at least 100 knots (116 mph) of "gate-to-gate shear," along with a "tornado vortex signature," a radar term for a circulation strong enough to be a tornado if it were on the ground. A javascript loop of storm-relative velocity (~350K) shows this "shear couplet" became quite intense, and remained so while curving northwestward, before a newer and weaker one formed to its east. This process of forming repeat mesocyclones is common in supercells which spawn more than one major tornado. Supercells which do this are called cyclic -- in other words, they cycle through circulation after circulation.
The round "ball" of reflectivity in the hook is a rare feature, sometimes seen when a radar picks up tornado debris being lofted into a thunderstorm. [Tornado debris was the cause of a similar signature on May 3, 1999 in Oklahoma.] Unlike in the developed areas of central Oklahoma, there is apparently little which a tornado could hit in that part of Mexico to generate large debris -- unless the radar was detecting sagebrush leaves, broken mesquite branches and shredded chunks of prickly pear cactus. Maps of the area show no towns or villages, and only one dirt road winding west out of Ciudad Acuna into the Serranias del Burro mountains.
Because of the remote desert terrain west of Ciudad Acuna, the lack of population, and the lack of tornado verification in Mexico, we may never know if there was truly a tornado there. In the U.S., however, low level mesocyclones this strong are not usually seen even in many storms which do produce tornadoes. Based on all the radar signatures, the best we can say for now is that this supercell probably produced a significant tornado in Mexico. Later, as it crossed the border over Amistad Reservoir (a large man-made lake on the Rio Grande), it had two hook echoes, with a mesocyclone in each one, prompting this tornado warning for the Amistad Reservoir and Del Rio area:
According to the local storm report, a rancher sighted a funnel cloud with debris -- by definition, a tornado -- a mile and a half southeast of the Amistad Dam, 10 minutes later at 12:40 a.m. Tornado damage to ranch equipment was reported 20 minutes later, 15 miles north of Del Rio. After moving across the border, this supercell produced at least one tornado and hail the size of baseballs...and it wasn't as intense on radar as it was earlier in Mexico!
For several decades, forecasters at SPC (formerly NSSFC/SELS) have noticed large, apparently severe thunderstorms forming in the Serranias del Burro during spring and summer, often far removed from those on the same days in the Great Plains. Most stay in Mexico; but a few will cross the Rio Grande and produce large hail and heavy rain in the U.S. There has been almost no scientific study of thunderstrms in this area, however, because of its remoteness and the tendency for the storms to stay south of the border.
For more info on supercells and tornadoes, check out the new Online Tornado FAQ at SPC.


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Shooting Spring
Spring At It's Best
The English Spring provides a veritable smorgasbord of weather and it certainly revealed how remarkably changeable it is for me yesterday! Warm in sheltered and breeze-free areas, moving swiftly to freezing cold out in the open; sun, wind, rain, sleet and snow and all in one day! But even so, it was still a great day to go out and do Spring photography. What ever the weather, rain or shine, snow or sleet, the English Spring is a stunning time of year, so why not check out our Spring retreat here for 2017.
All my images are straight out of the camera, mostly shot using a very shallow depth-of-field and taken in either aperture-priority or manual modes to give me full control over the subject. Nothing fancy in Photoshop however, just plain and simple tweak to levels and curves, a little colour saturation modification for richness, sharpening adjustments to cater to the vagaries of shooting RAW and voila!
Start Snapping Today
Go out with that camera now, or at least before our wonderful Spring flowers and the glorious iridescent, infant-green of the newly grown buds has disappeared and if you try some of the techniques above, let us know how you get on, we'd love to see your shots.
Spring. It simply is my favourite time of year.
Enjoy Sue
Be inspired to take shots like those below, all shot yesterday in a couple of hours.
Gunnera stem macro
Beech bud
Bluebell woods
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I'll be dancing this Sunday at Club Cleopatra's Sizzling Summer Showcase at The Barron Restaurant in Culver City. I've danced at Club Cleopatra's showcase several times over the past year and love dancing in their showcase because the audience is always fun and the other dancers are always top notch performers (I get to be a belly dance fan girl and dancer all in one show). However, I'm truly over the moon excited to be part of a bill that features as the guest dancer, Anaheed, an American Cabaret legend who danced at the Hollywood club, The Fez. Anaheed sponsors the Perfumes of Araby Swapmeet in Chatsworth, an event that brings the belly dance community together twice a year and features performances by bellydancers of all types and at all levels in their craft (as a baby baby baby belly dancer, I performed here for the very first time). I had the pleasure of dancing at DeVilla's Siren Sunday show with Anaheed at Moun of Tunis last year. She was beyond lovely – supportive, nurturing, shared her knowledge freely and floored the audience with her charm, talent and sense of humor.


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Retiring early (55) and am wondering if I should get a certified planner. This might be a dumb question, but does a planner save you money in the long run, if you are not at all familiar with investing? Or, is it better to go through an agency like Scwabb or Fidelity and let them advise you and review your investment every six months?_______________________________________________________I RE'ed last year at the age of 51. I didn't know anything about the market or how to handle my money. When I started asking around to find out what I needed to know about investing, I found that very few people were willing to work with me. Most of the companies just want you to save money and never withdraw it. I finally found a "local" Investment Representative, who listened to what I wanted and was willing to work with me. I found that I did not need the certified planner, but everyone's case is different. The main thing is to find someone who you trust, and is willing to work with you. Now that I am retired, I have the time to study and learn the things I need to know about investing. In my case, my Investment Representative is doing all the right things for me. For me, it is important to have access to Him and not deal over the phone with someone I don't know. Good Luck with your retirement. Retired51
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At Wordlogic, we'll create a solution that's tailored to your company's specific requirements. Whereas other predictive text solutions offer single word prediction, WordLogic is the only company that has the ability to predict entire phrases and sentences with our Wordchunking™ technology. Furthermore, Gesturing™ technology enables workers to enter words and phrases with sub-second input, resulting in blazing fast entry speeds with full accuracy. Powering the predictive input is a bespoke cloud-based company dictionary that enables company/industry-specific words and phrases to be managed centrally and continuously updated so that they be synced across all of your workers devices.
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- Can be implemented into your existing IT infrastructure using WordLogic's simple SDK
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To use a premenstrual dysphoric disorder chart to track symptoms, organize the chart as a calendar, and note the type, severity and length of any symptoms you notice each day, explains MedlinePlus. Tracking your symptoms over several menstrual cycles helps you get an accurate medical diagnosis and explore appropriate treatment options with your doctor.Continue Reading
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder is similar to premenstrual syndrome in that the symptoms manifest about a week prior to menstruation. PMDD is more extreme than PMS and may cause severe mood swings, including panic attacks and depressive episodes, in addition to physical symptoms, such as bloating, tender breasts and muscle soreness, as listed on MedlinePlus.
Use a menstrual tracker, such as the one available on My Monthly Cycles, to note any symptoms at the time they appear. This tracker allows you to chart symptoms such as irritability, sadness, stress and trouble sleeping, as well as physical symptoms. In addition to the type of symptom, note its severity and how long it lasted. Tracking these factors each day for several months may reveal patterns regarding when the symptoms are at their worst.
To treat PMDD, some doctors recommend antidepressants, taken all month or only in the second half of the menstrual cycle, notes Mayo Clinic. Knowing when your symptoms tend to appear may help a doctor determine what medication schedule is best for you.Learn more about Menstruation


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1. The Committee has requested a
memorandum to "explain the basis on which Fee No. 7 in the
Schedule (Ł25
for a certified copy of, or extract from, any record) has been
2. The above Regulations are made
at the same time as amendments to the Companies (Fees) Regulations
1991 (SI 1998 No. 3088) and are designed to align EEIG fees with
those for similar services provided for companies. EEIG information
is recorded and disseminated using the same systems and procedures
as that for companies information, and the unit cost calculation
is therefore the same for each.
3. The provision of certified copies,
or extracts from, documents is a highly labour intensive activity,
requiring individual handling and certification of each copy.
4. In 1997/8, 16,000 certified copies
of documents were issued by Companies House at a total cost of
and the unit cost is thus calculated to be Ł23.63.
The fee of Ł25
anticipates a predicted further rise in unit costs in the current
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Sounds good -- but I learned firsthand that the reality is often far from the promises made by slick purveyors of such coaching services. After more than five decades in higher education, I thought it would be a meaningful experience to become an academic coach myself. I applied with one of the most-aggressive firms in the field, which I will designate by the nickname ICKY (that is an elaboration of their initials) based in Texas. My next step was an intensive on-line training program which also serves as ICKY's screening process for potential coaches. So far, so good -- but wait!
Aside from blunders made by ICKY's key staff, including one top official repeatedly telling us trainees that our program ended on Monday -- when the actual ending date was Sunday, it was only after considerable training had occurred that we were told that our rather-minimal coaching compensation was exactly the same whether a course runs for five weeks, seven weeks, or the typical college's fifteen weeks. That bit of startling news was followed by ICKY's allegation that the amount of effort required of coaches was essentially the same regardless of the length of the course! Obviously, either that statement is totally untrue, or else coaches are encouraged to cut back on their weekly efforts in longer courses. Either way, we should have been told of this adverse payment policy up-front, not after considerable training took place.
It was very difficult to get any replies to emails sent to ICKY's training team
regarding this issue, or a number of other issues I raised during their coach training. And, although I completed that training with a score of over 99%, I was unable to get the promised certificate of completion. Finally, after many email requests, I got a snotty reply that it could take up to eight weeks to get that promised certificate, for no good reason I could find. At that point, it became eminently clear that ICKY holds all the cards, and the coach trainees mostly hold the bag, as the saying goes. So, FAREWELL ICKY! If any school, college, or university needs coaching, it would do much better to develop that capacity in house, rather than deal with firms like ICKY, which are, indeed, far too icky for me.


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I loved Mary, Mary as a child. It was my favorite nursery rhyme, hands down. Does that surprise you? Probably not. After church on Sunday, we worked in the yard. Jonathan mowed and edged, and I worked in the flower beds. My herb seeds were planted, and I removed diseased leaves from the rose bushes. I also pulled an incredible amount of grass out of the flower beds. I guess that's the price you pay to have nice grass...you get grass in the beds as well.
I'll take grassy beds. It's so much better than the dirt that we had last year!


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Last week, Pocket-lint revealed that the HTC M7 - a new flagship device from the Taiwanese phone manufacturer - was coming and, while others hinted that it could make its bow at CES in January, we suggested that it was more likely to be launched during Mobile World Congress in February.
It seems we were right, according to new details that have emerged about the codenamed Android smartphone. A new "previously reliable" source has told Unwired View that the HTC M7 will indeed be unveiled during MWC, and has listed a fair few specifications to boot.
We had previously heard that the new device would come with a 5-inch screen. The new reports claim that it's slightly smaller than that, at 4.7-inch. However, fresh details point to its being Full HD 1080p, so that would be a lot of pixels crammed into the SoLux display, making it rather tasty - 468PPI, in fact.
The previous leak claimed that it would be powered by a Qualcomm APQ8064 quad-core processor (Snapdragon S4 Pro). The latest skinny on that front adds 1.7GHz to the mix. It will also have 2GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage, says the source.
The same source confirms that it will also, as previously thought, have a 13-megapixel camera on the rear - although, the 2-megapixel front-facing camera is new information. As are the facts that it will be 4G (in some regions - not known if that includes the UK), have a Beats amp and stereo speakers, and a 2300mAh battery.
Unwired View speculates that the HTC M7 will be on all four American networks - which hasn't happened since the Touch Pro 2. There's no word yet on UK availability or carriers.


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Zooey Deschanel Long, Curly Hairstyle with Bangs
Zooey Deschanel's Long, Curly Hairstyle with Bangs is a unique look for girls with long hair. Steal her style:1. To get Zooey Deschanel's hairstyle, apply volumizing mousse to your hair and blow dry it with a round brush to add body. 2. Once your hair is completely dry, use a 1 1/2-inch curling iron to curl the bottom half of your hair in medium sections (leaving out the ends). 3. Finger comb through your curls to loosen them into waves, and mist them with anti-humidity hairspray. 4. Mist your bangs with a bit of texturizing spray and tousle them with your fingers. See More Zooey Deschanel Hairstyles
Adele's Long, Straight, Brunette Ponytail with Bangs
Adele's Long, Straight, Brunette Ponytail with Bangs is a cute way to style day old hair. See how to get the look:1. To get Adele's hairstyle, spritz your roots with volumizing spray to add a bit of life to your day old hair. 2. Use your fingers to gather all of your hair back into a low ponytail, and secure it with an elastic. 3. Run a flat iron over your bangs to smooth them out, and mist all over with anti-humidity hairspray to finish. See More Adele Hairstyles
Taylor Swift Long, Straight, Blonde Hairstyle with Bangs
Taylor Swift's straight hairstyle looks just as romantic as her trademark curls. Steal her style:1. Apply smoothing cream to damp hair and blow dry straight using a paddle brush (including your bangs). 2. Use a flat iron to straighten the bottom half of your hair to smooth out any frizzy or wavy sections. 3. Apply a few drops of shine serum onto your palms and glide them over your hair to add a sleek finish. See More Taylor Swift Hairstyles
Taylor Momsen Long, Sexy, Tousled Hairstyle
Taylor Momsen's loose, textured waves and eye-grazing bangs give this look a sultry style. (The black eyeliner certainly doesn't hurt either.) Steal her style:1. To get this look, start by applying a volumizing mousse to towel-dried hair, focusing the product on your roots. 2. Next, use a large round brush to blow dry hair, making sure to lift at the roots and direct hair underneath each section to build body. As you dry the length of your hair, turn the brush a few times to create soft, imperfect waves.3. Hold on to the end of a 2-inch section of hair and wrap it around the outside of a large barreled curling iron. Hold in place for a few seconds before releasing the wave. Repeat until all hair is loosely curled.4. Once hair is wavy, flip your head over and gently shake the waves to break them up and add volume all over. Finish by spritzing your style with a soft-hold hairspray. See More Taylor Momsen Hairstyles
Paris Hilton Long, Straight, Blonde Hairstyle with Bangs
Paris Hilton's trendy, straight hairstyle works well for those who have razored bangs and want a dramatic 'do for a night out. Steal her look:1.If your hair is wavy or curly, work in a smoothing cream to damp hair and blow dry straight using a paddle brush, making sure to blow dry your bangs, as well.2. Next, heat up your straightener and touch up any pieces that may still be frizzy, and to insure your hair is uber-straight.3. Brush bangs forward, and use a comb to create a center part about 2-inches back from your forehead and bring it all the way to the back of your crown.4. Finally, apply a little shine serum to complete the look. See More Paris Hilton Hairstyles
Mischa Barton Long, Curly, Sexy Hairstyle
Mischa Barton's sexy curls are a hot party look, from a prom to a wedding. Steal her style: 1. Starting with damp hair, work a volumizing mousse through your locks. 2. Part hair to one side, and, working in sections, blow dry hair with a diffuser and a large round brush. Pay special attention to the hair at the crown of your head, starting the brush at the root and slowly working it through to the ends, adding height and body to that section. Also use the round brush to blow dry the bangs forward, curling them under at the ends.3. Once hair is dry, use a large-barrel curling iron or hot rollers to curl sections of hair all over sides and the back. 4. Finger comb the curls loose softly; you don't want to uncurl them, but you want to lift and separate them to add more body all over. If you want individual curls to stand out, apply a small amount of wax to your fingers and run it over those curls. Finish the look with shine spray to make it pop.
Mischa Barton Long, Wavy Hairstyle with Bangs
Mischa Barton's casual, wavy hair is a perfect everyday look. How to get it: 1. Apply volumizing mousse to damp hair and let it air dry, or blow dry it using a diffuser. Part hair to one side2. With large hot rollers or a large-barrel curling iron, wrap 3-inch sections of hair for five to 10 seconds, skipping the bangs.3. Finger comb curls to loosen them into cascading waves. 4. Use a straightening iron to smooth out the bangs, and use a spray gel to sweep them across your forehead and set them in place.
Mischa Barton Long, Curly Hairstyle with Bangs
Mischa Barton's pretty curls with straight bangs is a hot party look. To do this style: 1. Rub a holding lotion throughout hair, to add volume and hold the 'do. 2. Part your hair down the middle, except for the bangs, which you should comb straight forward. 3. Working in 2- or 3-inch sections, blow dry your hair with a large round brush. Also use the large round brush to blow dry your bangs forward.4. Once hair is dry, and again working in 2- or 3-inch sections, use large hot rollers or a large-barrel curling iron to add big, bouncy curls on the sides and back of hair. Apply a small amount of hair wax to your fingers and comb them through your curls to lift and separate and add more body to hair.5. Smooth out the bangs with a hair straightener if needed, curling them under slightly at the ends. Finish the look with a light-hold hairspray.
Mandy Moore Long, Straight Hairstyle with Bangs
Mandy Moore's trendy style is perfect for a casual or more formal event, and her bangs soften her square-shaped face. To get the look: 1. Rub styling mousse throughout damp hair, focusing on the roots, to add extra volume. 2. Using a medium or large round brush, blow dry 1- to 2-inch sections of hair under (with the brush underneath the hair as you pull it through). Focus on the roots and the top layers, where you want the most volume.3. With a hair straightener, smooth out any waves, curls or frizziness to help shape your look. 4. Using hair wax, separate bangs and arrange them all across your forehead and guide ends of hair under. Set the look with a light-hold hairspray.
Lindsay Lohan Long, Wavy, Blonde Hairstyle with Bangs
Lindsay Lohan's long, blonde waves have a slight retro feel. Step back in time with these tips: 1. Start with dry, not-too-clean, layered hair that's parted just a tad to the side.2. Holding a 1-inch curling iron vertically, clamp it around hair ends and roll 1- to 2-inch sections of hair away from your face in a spiral shape.3. Mist curls with hairspray.
Lindsay Lohan Long, Layered, Brunette Hairstyle with Bangs
Lindsay Lohan's multi-level waves are great for growing out a layered cut. To get the look: 1. Work a volumizing mousse through damp hair and blow-dry with a large round brush, flipping bangs in and layered ends out. 2. Smooth with shine serum and spritz with hairspray for a smooth finish.3. Clip in long, wavy hair extensions at ear level. You want the clips to be hidden beneath the top layer of hair, which should match the color of the extensions perfectly.4. If necessary, spot-curl to better blend the extensions in with your own hair (make sure you can heat-style your extensions before you put that blazing-hot curling iron on them). Or if you have time and a friend who's talented with shears, trim extensions to blend in with your layers.
Kelly Clarkson Long, Blonde, Wavy Hairstyle
Kelly Clarkson's tousled, wavy hairstyle works as well for everyday as it does for a casual date night. Get the look:
1. Comb a volumizing mousse through damp (not soaking wet) hair.
2. Blow dry hair with a round brush, lifting at the roots to add volume.
3. When hair is dry, spray 2-inch sections with a curl-enhancing spray that offers soft hold. Then wrap each section around a large-barreled curling iron, curling away from the face for that Farrah Fawcett/"Charlie's Angels" look.
4. Finger-comb curls to separate, then spray with a light-hold hairspray.
Kate Bosworth Long, Straight Hairstyle with Bangs
Kate Bosworth's girly bangs go perfectly with long, straight hair. Steal her look: 1. To get the look, straighten dry hair with a flat iron.2. Run mousse through the ends of your hair to add some texture. 3. With the remaining mousse on your fingers, tousle your bangs and let them naturally fall into place.


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Elgin library celebrates Black History Month
Submitted by Gail Borden
The community is invited to the ninth annual Black History Family Festival from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, at Gail Borden Public Library, 270 N. Grove Ave., Elgin.
This year's festival is themed "Honoring Our Heroes: Contributions of African American Veterans." More than 50 African American veterans will be honored at the festival, which will feature members of the Tuskegee airmen.
Special guests will include Major Henry W. Boulden Jr., Sgt. First Class Jarnett Dill and Sgt. First Class Kathy Harris.
The festival also will feature storyteller Linda Gorham, future African-American leaders, the South Shore Drill Team, children's arts and crafts and culinary treats.
The free festival is open to the community and is sponsored by Gail Borden Public Library District, Elgin Area School District U-46, the City of Elgin and Elgin Community College.
For nearly 10 years, the Black History Family Festival has successfully worked to bridge cultures by uniting the Elgin area in a celebration of the African American experience. The festival involves schools and families and has been successful in developing programs that involve participants in unique ways. Go to www.gailborden.info to learn more about this program.
For information, contact Gail Borden Library Program Coordinator Stacy Michel at (847) 289-5808.


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Name: 1968 Mercury Monterey Convertible
Year Produced: 1967-1968
Number Built: 1,112
Class: Full-size
Body Type: 4 door sedan
Engine: 428 cu in (7.0 liter) V8
Power: 265 hp
0-60mph: 4.9 seconds
Top Speed: 117 mph
Transmission: 3-speed manual
Length/width/height: 220.1 in/77.9 in/55.1 in
Wheelbase: 123 in
It was common for law enforcement agents during the 1960s to ride on a vehicle that can make head turns. Why not? After all, such imposing role demands an equally impressive ride. Even hot rodders of the day understood the power and speed that these vehicles have in them.
So why does law enforcement agencies choose the Mercury over others as their vehicle of choice? Curbside Classic's Jason Shafer explains. "To begin with, they had a minimum requirement for wheelbase length, typically 122 to 124 inches. Contemporary Fords literally fell short, as the wheelbase on a 1968 Galaxie spanned only 119 inches. Thus, the 1968 Mercury riding a 123″ wheelbase met this standard while retaining the selling points of Ford reliability and durability.The rationale for such a long wheelbase reflected the perception that length equaled stability. When you had to chase a new Charger at triple-digit speeds, you didn't want your chariot getting squirrelly–never mind that your steed might be as long as a wagon track."
The Mercury's heartbeat was powered by a 390 cubic inch (6.5 liter) V8, with a rated horsepower of 265 on a manual transmission and 280 on an automatic. Interestingly, the 390 revs it up at 315 horsepower when installed in a Park Lane. To complete the package, nearly 100% of full-sized 1968 Mercurys comes with power steering – everything that your friendly local police needed for a high speed chase.
True enough, the Mercury was a sensation of its time. A total of 55,000 of all body styles of this full-size base series were manufactured and sold in 1968. The mid-level Montclair which is the least popular ran only with 15,000 two- and four-door hardtops and four-door sedans, followed by the top-end Park Lane with just over 20,000 units, and convertibles at 1,112 units.
Eventually, the glory days of the Mercury reached its twilight when The Missouri Highway Patrol opted for the Panther platform Marquis at the beginning of 1980. As of to date. there is a pristine '78 Marquis patrol car at the highway patrol museum in Jefferson City, presented as the last full-sized car used by the agency.


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AMPAS names new leadership in Dawn Hudson and Ric Robertson
Former Film Independent head Dawn Hudson and longtime Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences executive Ric Robertson were named chief executive officer and chief operating officer, respectively, of the academy.
The academy's Board of Governors voted Thursday to establish this new executive structure to replace its retiring executive director, Bruce Davis.
Hudson has spent the last 20 years as head of Film Independent, the nonprofit organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival. The day before she was named chief executive of the academy, Film Independent announced it was partnering with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to lead LACMA's film programming.
Her replacement at Film Independent has not yet been announced.
Robertson joined the Academy in 1981 and was named executive administrator, the organization's second-in-command in 1989. Academy President Tom Sherak said in a statement Thursday evening: "We are a different organization than we used to be.... Now, with the leadership team of Dawn as our CEO and Rick as our COO, we have the ideal combination of new vision and institutional continuity to move us forward."
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The history books will show that Germany won the 2014 World Cup 1-0 in extra time over Argentina, becoming the first European team to win the trophy on South American soil and denying Argentine star Lionel Messi the one achievement that is missing from his incredible résumé.
But there were plenty of other winners and losers at this monthlong tournament, starting with host Brazil.
Brazil the host was a winner, defying naysayers who predicted this country might love soccer more than any other, but it did not have the infrastructure or public support to pull off a sporting event of this magnitude. They were wrong. Brazil's World Cup worked and will go down in history as one of the most exciting in recent memory.
Brazil the team, however, ended the tournament in shame. The Jogo Bonito was officially laid to rest in Belo Horizonte last Tuesday, after an embarrassing 7-1 loss to Germany, and the 3-0 loss to Netherlands in the third-place game confirmed that something is very wrong with Brazilian soccer.
Even before poster boy Neymar went out with a back injury, the team was struggling. Its dream was to finally win a World Cup at Maracana. Instead, it had to watch rival Argentina and Germany steal its stage.
Here are some other winners and losers from Brazil 2014:
•Winner: Costa Rica.
Who would have imagined when the Ticos were drawn into a group with former World Cup champions England, Italy and Uruguay, that Costa Rica would come out on top? The Ticos reached the quarterfinals, and it was no fluke. Great goalkeeper. Great coach in Jorge Luis Pinto.
•Loser: Spain.
The defending World Cup champion, loaded with Barcelona and Real Madrid multimillion-dollar stars, went out in the first round. Tiki-taka didn't work this time.
•Winner: Brazilian pineapple, mango, papaya, bananas and hearts of palm ( palmitas).
The fruits and hearts of palm here are truly delicious, more tasty than I've had anywhere in the world. Also, big thumbs up forMoqueqa
, a Brazilian fish/seafood stew made with tomatoes and coconut milk.
•Loser: Carb-free diets.
One of the most popular foods here isPao de Queijo
, cheese buns. They are everywhere. At airports, gas stations, street vendors, bakeries, you name it. They're not big on green veggies here. Their side dishes are much more potato- and white rice-heavy, and they love to eat empanada pastries filled with everything you can imagine.
•Winner: CONCACAF goalkeepers.
Tim Howard (USA), Guillermo Ochoa (Mexico) and Keyler Navas (Costa Rica) were all outstanding. They kept their teams in games. American fans will always remember Howard's World Cup-record 16 saves against Belgium. He was already known among soccer fans as a truly world-class player, but now casual fans know him, too. As well they should. Bonus: He's a great guy and an inspiration to others afflicted with Tourrette's Syndrome.
•Loser: Cristiano Ronaldo.
For all his preening and fantastic résumé, the Portuguese star had a forgettable tournament. In his defense, he was playing through a knee injury, which clearly affected him. But still, expected to see more from him.
•Winner: Brazilian graffiti artists.
Everywhere you go in Brazil, particularly in Sao Paulo and Rio, you will encounter fantastic colorful murals painted on walls by graffiti artists. These aren't just any graffiti drawings. They are works of art. Some of the artists have become so famous they are commissioned for big money to paint walls. The most famous are identical twin brothers Otavio and Gutavo Pandolfo, who go by the nameOs Gemeos
(The Twins). Their work is on display on walls in Berlin, Moscow, Lisbon, New York City and in Miami's Wynwood district.
•Loser: Brazilian napkins.
They are small. Really small. More like cocktail napkins. And thin. Really thin. Like tissue paper. I found myself grabbing five or six at every meal.
•Winner: ESPN and Univision.
Ratings for this World Cup smashed previous records, partly because of the time zone, but also because this tournament was really exciting, American fans have finally joined the world's biggest sports party, and both networks did a good job of broadcasting the excitement back home.
•Loser: Asian soccer.
There is intense interest in the sport in Asia and a lot of merchandise sales, but they had four teams here (Japan, South Korea, Iran and Australia), and combined for zero wins.
•Winner: Heine Allemagne.
He's the Brazilian inventor of the magic foam spray being used by referees to keep the defensive wall 10 yards away on free kicks. The spray, officially called 9.15 Fair Play (the metric distance of the wall) vanishes in 60 seconds and has reportedly reduced the time of free kicks from 48 seconds to 20. Allemagne comes from a poor background and will likely get rich from the spray if it catches on worldwide. Right now it is used only in Brazil.
•Loser: Luis Suarez.
The Uruguayan star is one of the best players in the world and looked fantastic against England. But his habitual biting got him in trouble again. Suarez sank his teeth into the shoulder of Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini, and Suarez was thrown out of the sport for four months.
•Winner: U.S. Soccer.
They might not have attacked as much as promised, but the plucky Americans with their never-say-die spirit survived the Group of Death, lost only 1-0 to eventual champion Germany (which beat Portugal 4-0 and Brazil 7-1), and played their hearts out in a Round of 16 thriller against Belgium. Most important of all, they captivated millions of fans back home.
•Winner: Jorge Luis Pinto.
The Costa Rican coach gained a world's worth of respect for the job he did with a Ticos team nobody expected to advance. His tactics and leadership were big reasons the Costa Ricans did so well.
•Loser: Chilean fans.
We admire them for being so passionate about their team, but invading the Estadio Maracana media center in an attempt to crash into the game without tickets was not a wise idea. The 85 overzealous fans were deported.
The World Cup is ultimate audition for players, the place to be noticed by fans and scouts from every continent. Among those who had breakout performances were Divock Origi (Belgium), Xherdan "The Alpine Messi" Shaqiri (Switzerland), Memphis Depay (Netherlands), Matt Besler, Jermaine Jones and DeAndre Yedlin (United States) and Blaise Matuidi (France).
•Loser: Jozy Altidore's hamstring.
The American forward had been looking in form of late and was fired up for a big tournament after disappointing season for Sunderland in England. But he strained his hamstring in full stride early in the opening game against Ghana and never got a chance to play again.
•Winner: James Rodriguez.
When Colombian star Falcao announced his surgically repaired knee was not recovered in time for the World Cup, Colombian fans (and most soccer experts) figured their tournament hopes were dashed. They were wrong. Rodriguez proved to be a star in his own right, scoring a tournament-leading six goals for the Golden Boot even though the Cafeteros were eliminated in the quarters.
•Winner, then Loser: Axelle Despiegelaere.
The pretty 17-year-old Belgian fan was shown on TV during Belgium's group matches, the photos went viral and cosmetic giant L'Oreal offered a modeling contract. But they yanked it when they saw her Facebook page, which included a photo of her with a gun over a dead animal and the caption: Ready to hunt Americans.