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Lionel Hampton

Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, and bandleader. Hampton worked with jazz musicians from Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, and Buddy Rich to Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Quincy Jones. In 1992, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1996.

Biography

Early life

Lionel Hampton was born in 1908 in Louisville, Kentucky, and was raised by his mother. Shortly after he was born, he and his mother moved to her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. He spent his early childhood in Kenosha, Wisconsin, before he and his family moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1916. As a youth, Hampton was a member of the Bud Billiken Club, an alternative to the Boy Scouts of America, which was off-limits because of racial segregation. During the 1920s, while still a teenager, Hampton took xylophone lessons from Jimmy Bertrand and began to play drums. Hampton was raised Roman Catholic, and started out playing fife and drum at the Holy Rosary Academy near Chicago.

Early career

Lionel Hampton began his career playing drums for the Chicago Defender Newsboys' Band (led by Major N. Clark Smith) while still a teenager in Chicago. He moved to California in 1927 or 1928, playing drums for the Dixieland Blues-Blowers. He made his recording debut with The Quality Serenaders led by Paul Howard, then left for Culver City and drummed for the Les Hite band at Sebastian's Cotton Club. One of his trademarks as a drummer was his ability to do stunts with multiple pairs of sticks such as twirling and juggling without missing a beat. During this period he began practicing on the vibraphone. In 1930 Louis Armstrong came to California and hired the Les Hite band, asking Hampton if he would play vibes on two songs. So began his career as a vibraphonist, popularizing the use of the instrument in the process. Invented ten years earlier, the vibraphone is essentially a xylophone with metal bars, a sustain pedal, and resonators equipped with electric-powered fans that add tremolo.

While working with the Les Hite band, Hampton also occasionally did some performing with Nat Shilkret and his orchestra. During the early 1930s, he studied music at the University of Southern California. In 1934 he led his own orchestra, and then appeared in the Bing Crosby film Pennies From Heaven (1936) alongside Louis Armstrong (wearing a mask in a scene while playing drums).

With Benny Goodman

Also in November 1936, the Benny Goodman Orchestra came to Los Angeles to play the Palomar Ballroom. When John Hammond brought Goodman to see Hampton perform, Goodman invited him to join his trio, which soon became the Benny Goodman Quartet with Teddy Wilson and Gene Krupa completing the lineup. The Trio and Quartet were among the first racially integrated jazz groups to perform before audiences, and were a leading small-group of the day.

Lionel Hampton Orchestra

While Hampton worked for Goodman in New York, he recorded with several different small groups known as the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, as well as assorted small groups within the Goodman band. In 1940 Hampton left the Goodman organization under amicable circumstances to form his own big band.

Hampton's orchestra developed a high-profile during the 1940s and early 1950s. His third recording with them in 1942 produced the version of "Flying Home", featuring a solo by Illinois Jacquet that anticipated rhythm & blues. Although Hampton first recorded "Flying Home" under his own name with a small group in 1940 for Victor, the best known version is the big band version recorded for Decca on May 26, 1942, in a new arrangement by Hampton's pianist Milt Buckner. The 78pm disc became successful enough for Hampton to record "Flyin' Home #2" in 1944, this time a feature for Arnett Cobb. The song went on to become the theme song for all three men. Guitarist Billy Mackel first joined Hampton in 1944, and would perform and record with him almost continuously through to the late 1970s. In 1947, Hamp performed "Stardust" at a "Just Jazz" concert for producer Gene Norman, also featuring Charlie Shavers and Slam Stewart; the recording was issued by Decca. Later, Norman's GNP Crescendo label issued the remaining tracks from the concert.

Hampton was a featured artist at numerous Cavalcade of Jazz concerts held at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles and produced by Leon Hefflin Sr. His first performance was at the second Cavalcade of Jazz concert held on October 12, 1946 and also featured Jack McVea, Slim Gaillard, T-Bone Walker, the Honeydrippers and Louis Armstrong. The fifth Cavalcade of Jazz concert was held in two locations, Wrigley Field in Los Angeles and Lane Field in San Diego, July 10, 1949 and September 3, 1949 respectively. Betty Carter, Jimmy Witherspoon, Buddy Banks, Smiley Turner and Big Jay McNeely also played with Hampton. It was at the sixth Cavalcade of Jazz, June 25, 1950 that precipitated the closest thing to a riot in the show’s eventful history. Lionel and his band paraded around the ball park’s infield playing ‘Flying High’. The huge crowd, around 14,000 went berserk, tossed cushions, coats, hats, programs, and just about anything else they could lay hands on and swarmed on the field. Dinah Washington, Roy Milton, PeeWee Crayton, Lillie Greenwood, Tiny Davis an Her Hell Divers were also featured. His final Cavalcade of Jazz concert held on July 24, 1955 (Eleventh) also featured Big Jay McNeely, The Medallions, The Penguins and James Moody and his Orchestra.

From the mid-1940s until the early 1950s, Hampton led a lively rhythm & blues band whose Decca Records recordings included numerous young performers who later had significant careers. They included bassist Charles Mingus, saxophonist Johnny Griffin, guitarist Wes Montgomery, and vocalist Dinah Washington. Other noteworthy band members were trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie, Cat Anderson, Kenny Dorham, and Snooky Young; trombonist Jimmy Cleveland, and saxophonists Jerome Richardson and Curtis Lowe.

The Hampton orchestra that toured Europe in 1953 included Clifford Brown, Gigi Gryce, Anthony Ortega, Monk Montgomery, George Wallington, Art Farmer, Quincy Jones, and singer Annie Ross. Hampton continued to record with small groups and jam sessions during the 1940s and 1950s, with Oscar Peterson, Buddy DeFranco, and others. In 1955, while in California working on The Benny Goodman Story he recorded with Stan Getz and made two albums with Art Tatum for Norman Granz as well as with his own big band.

Hampton performed with Louis Armstrong and Italian singer Lara Saint Paul at the 1968 Sanremo Music Festival in Italy. The performance created a sensation with Italian audiences, as it broke into a real jazz session. That same year, Hampton received a Papal Medal from Pope Paul VI.

Later career

During the 1960s, Hampton's groups were in decline; he was still performing what had succeeded for him earlier in his career. He did not fare much better in the 1970s, though he recorded actively for his Who's Who in Jazz record label, which he founded in 1977/1978.

Beginning in February 1984, Hampton and his band played at the University of Idaho's annual jazz festival, which was renamed the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival the following year. In 1987 the UI's school of music was renamed for Hampton, the first university music school named for a jazz musician.

Hampton remained active until a stroke in Paris in 1991 led to a collapse on stage. That incident, combined with years of chronic arthritis, forced him to cut back drastically on performances. However, he did play at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in 2001 shortly before his death.

Hampton died from congestive heart failure at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, on August 31, 2002. He was interred at the Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York. His funeral was held on September 7, 2002, and featured a performance by Wynton Marsalis and David Ostwald's Gully Low Jazz Band at Riverside Church in Manhattan; the procession began at The Cotton Club in Harlem.

Personal life

On November 11, 1936, in Yuma, Arizona, Lionel Hampton married Gladys Riddle (1913–1971). Gladys was Lionel's business manager throughout much of his career. Many musicians recall that Lionel ran the music and Gladys ran the business.

During the 1950s he had a strong interest in Judaism and raised money for Israel. In 1953 he composed a King David suite and performed it in Israel with the Boston Pops Orchestra. Later in life Hampton became a Christian Scientist. Hampton was also a Thirty-third degree Prince Hall freemason. In January 1997, his apartment caught fire and destroyed his awards and belongings; Hampton escaped uninjured.

On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Lionel Hampton among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.

Charity

Hampton was deeply involved in the construction of various public housing projects, and founded the Lionel Hampton Development Corporation. Construction began with the Lionel Hampton Houses in Harlem, New York in the 1960s, with the help of then Republican governor Nelson Rockefeller. Hampton's wife, Gladys Hampton, also was involved in construction of a housing project in her name, the Gladys Hampton Houses. Gladys died in 1971. In the 1980s, Hampton built another housing project called Hampton Hills in Newark, New Jersey.

Hampton was a staunch Republican and served as a delegate to several Republican National Conventions. He served as Vice-Chairman of the New York Republican County Committee for some years and also was a member of the New York City Human Rights Commission. Hampton donated almost $300,000 to Republican campaigns and committees throughout his lifetime.

Awards

2001 – Harlem Jazz and Music Festival's Legend Award

1996 – International Jazz Hall of Fame Induction and Award (performed "Flying Home" with Illinois Jacquet and the Count Basie Orchestra)

1996 – National Medal of Arts presented by President Bill Clinton

1995 – Honorary Commissioner of Civil Rights by George Pataki

1995 – Honorary Doctorate from the New England Conservatory of Music

1993 – Honorary Doctorate from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore

1992 – Inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame

1992 - "Contributions To The Cultural Life of the Nation" award from John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

1988 – The National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowship

1988 – The National Association of Jazz Educators Hall of Fame Award

1987 – Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from the University of Idaho – UI's School of Music renamed "Lionel Hampton School of Music."

1987 – The Roy Wilkins Memorial Award from the NAACP

1986 – The "One of a Kind" Award from Broadcast Music, Inc.

1984 – Jazz Hall of Fame Award from the Institute of Jazz Studies

1984 – Honorary Doctorate of Music from USC

1983 – The International Film and Television Festival of New York City Award

1983 – Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the State University of New York

1982 – Hollywood Walk of Fame Star

1981 – Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Glassboro State College

1979 – Honorary Doctorate of Music from Howard University

1978 – Bronze Medallion from New York City

1976 – Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Daniel Hale Williams University

1975 – Honorary Doctorate of Music from Xavier University of Louisiana

1974 – Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Pepperdine University

1968 – Papal Medal from Pope Paul VI

1966 – Handel Medallion

1957 – American Goodwill Ambassador by President Dwight D. Eisenhower

1954 – Israel's Statehood Award

Discography

Compilations of noteThe Chronological ... Classics series

note: every recording by Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra is included in this 12 volume series from the CLASSICS reissue label ...

The Chronological Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra 1937–1938 (#524) - RCA Victor recordings

The Chronological Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra 1938–1939 (#534) - RCA Victor recordings

The Chronological Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra 1939–1940 (#562) - RCA Victor recordings

The Chronological Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra 1940–1941 (#624) - RCA Victor recordings; first Decca session

The Chronological Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra 1942–1944 (#803) - Decca recordings

The Chronological Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra 1945–1946 (#922) - Decca recordings

The Chronological Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra 1946 (#946) - Decca recordings

The Chronological Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra 1947 (#994) - Decca recordings

The Chronological Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra 1949–1950 (#1161) - Decca recordings

The Chronological Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra 1950 (#1193) - Decca recordings

The Chronological Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra 1950–1951 (#1262) - last two Decca sessions; MGM recordings

The Chronological Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra 1951–1953 (#1429) - includes Hamp's first Norman Granz-produced quartet session (September 2, 1953) with Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, and Buddy Rich.

Glad-Hamp Records

GHLP-1001 (1961) The Many Sides Of Hamp

GHLP-3050 (1962) All That Twist'n Jazz

GHLP-1003 (1962) The Exciting Hamp In Europe

GHLP-1004 (1963) Bossa Nova Jazz

GHLP-1005 (1963) Recorded Live On Tour

GHLP-1006 (1964) Hamp In Japan/Live

GHLP-1007 (1965) East Meets West (Introducing Miyoko Hoshino)

GHLP-1009 (1965) A Taste Of Hamp

GHS-1011 (1967) Hamp Stamps [includes "Greasy Greens"]

GHS-1012 (1966) Hamp's Portrait Of A Woman

GHS-1020 (1979) Hamp's Big Band Live!

GHS-1021 (1980) Chameleon

GHS-1022 (1982) Outrageous

GHS-1023 (1983) Live In Japan

GHS-1024 (1984) Ambassador At Large

GHS-1025 (1985) Sentimental Journey (Featuring Sylvia Bennett)

GHS-1026 (1988) One Of A Kind

GHS-1027 (1987) Midnight Blues - with Dexter Gordon

GHCD-1028 (1990) Cookin' In The Kitchen

As sidemanWith Frank Sinatra

L.A. Is My Lady (Qwest/Warner Bros., 1984)

Filmography

Hampton appeared as himself in the films listed below.

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Overlooked Treasure: The First Evidence of Exoplanets

NASA - Spitzer Space Telescope patch. November 2, 2017

Image above: Artist concept of an exoplanet and debris disk orbiting a polluted white dwarf. Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Beneath an elegant office building with a Spanish-style red tiled roof in Pasadena, California, three timeworn storerooms safeguard more than a century of astronomy. Down the stairs and to the right is a basement of wonder. There are countless wooden drawers and boxes, stacked floor to ceiling, with telescope plates, sunspot drawings and other records. A faint ammonia-like smell, reminiscent of old film, fills the air.

Image above: A storeroom at Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, holding archives from the Mount Wilson telescopes and other astronomical records. Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Guarding one storeroom is a short black door with a sign saying "This door to be kept closed."

Image above: The door to a storeroom at Carnegie Observatories. Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Carnegie Observatories hosts 250,000 photographic plates taken at Mount Wilson, Palomar and Las Campanas observatories, spanning more than 100 years. In their heydays, the Mount Wilson 60-inch and 100-inch telescopes -- the bigger saw its first light on Nov. 1, 1917 -- were the most powerful instruments of their kind. Each indelibly changed humanity's understanding of our place in the cosmos. But these technological marvels were ahead of their time -- in one case, capturing signs of distant worlds that wouldn't be recognized for a century.

Image above: The Mount Wilson 60-inch and 100-inch telescopes. Image Credits: Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library. Mount Wilson is the site where some of the key discoveries about our galaxy and universe were made in the early 20th century. This is where Edwin Hubble realized that the Milky Way cannot be the extent of our universe, because Andromeda (or M31) is farther away than the most distant reaches of our galaxy. The photographic plate from the 100-inch Hooker Telescope from 1923, which captured this monumental realization, is blown up as a huge poster outside the Carnegie storerooms.

Image above: The plate showing Andromeda (or M31) must be a different galaxy. Image Credits: Carnegie Observatories. Hubble and Milton Humason, whose Mount Wilson career began as a janitor, worked together to explore the expanding nature of the universe. Using the legendary telescopes, as well as data from Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, they recognized that clusters of galaxies are traveling away from each other -- and the more distant galaxies move away from each other at greater speeds.

Image above: Edwin Hubble. Image Credits: Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library.

Image above: Milton Humason. Image Credits: Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library. But there is a far lesser known, 100-year-old discovery from Mount Wilson, one that was unidentified and unappreciated until recently. It's actually: The first evidence of exoplanets. A detective story It started with Ben Zuckerman, professor emeritus of astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was preparing a talk about the compositions of planets and smaller rocky bodies outside our solar system for a July 2014 symposium at the invitation of Jay Farihi, whom he had helped supervise when Farihi was a graduate student at UCLA. Farihi had suggested that Zuckerman talk about the pollution of white dwarfs, which are faint, dead stars composed of mainly hydrogen and helium. By "pollution," astronomers mean heavy elements invading the photospheres -- the outer atmospheres -- of these stars. The thing is, all those extra elements shouldn't be there -- the strong gravity of the white dwarf should pull the elements into the star's interior, and out of sight. The first polluted white dwarf identified is called van Maanen's Star (or "van Maanen 2" in the scientific literature), after its discoverer Adriaan van Maanen. Van Maanen found this object in 1917 by spotting its subtle motion relative to other stars between 1914 and 1917. Astronomer Walter Sydney Adams, who would later become director of Mount Wilson, captured the spectrum -- a chemical fingerprint -- of van Maanen's Star on a small glass plate using Mount Wilson's 60-inch telescope. Adams interpreted the spectrum to be of an F-type star, presumably based on the presence and strength of calcium and other heavy-element absorption features, with a temperature somewhat higher than our Sun. In 1919, van Maanen called it a "very faint star." Today, we know that van Maanen's Star, which is about 14 light-years away, is the closest white dwarf to Earth that is not part of a binary system. "This star is an icon," Farihi said recently. "It is the first of its type. It's really the proto-prototype." While preparing his talk, Zuckerman had what he later called a "true 'eureka' moment." Van Maanen's Star, unbeknownst to the astronomers who studied it in 1917 and those who thought about it for decades after, must be the first observational evidence that exoplanets exist. What does this have to do with exoplanets? Heavy elements in the star's outermost layer could not have been produced inside the star, because they would immediately sink due to the white dwarf's intense gravitational field. As more white dwarfs with heavy elements in their photospheres were discovered in the 20th century, scientists came to believe that the exotic materials must have come from the interstellar medium -- in other words, elements floating in the space between the stars. But in 1987, more than 70 years after the Mount Wilson spectrum of van Maanen's Star, Zuckerman and his colleague Eric Becklin reported an excess of infrared light around a white dwarf, which they thought might come from a faint "failed star" called a brown dwarf. This was, in 1990, interpreted to be a hot, dusty disk orbiting a white dwarf. By the early 2000s, a new theory of polluted white dwarfs had emerged: Exoplanets could push small rocky bodies toward the star, whose powerful gravity would pulverize them into dust. That dust, containing heavy elements from the torn-apart body, would then fall on the star. "The bottom line is: if you're an asteroid or comet, you can't just change your address. You need something to move you," Farihi said. "By far, the greatest candidates are planets to do that." NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has been instrumental in expanding the field of polluted white dwarfs orbited by hot, dusty disks. Since launch in 2004, Spitzer has confirmed about 40 of these special stars. Another space telescope, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, also detected a handful, bringing the total up to about four dozen known today. Because these objects are so faint, infrared light is crucial to identifying them. "We can't measure the exact amount of infrared light coming from these objects using telescopes on the ground," Farihi said. "Spitzer, specifically, just burst this wide open."

Image above: NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Supporting the new "dusty disk" theory of pulled white dwarfs, in 2007, Zuckerman and colleagues published observations of a white dwarf atmosphere with 17 elements -- materials similar to those found in the Earth-Moon system. (The late UCLA professor Michael Jura, who made crucial contributions to the study of polluted white dwarfs, was part of this team.) This was further evidence that at least one small, rocky body -- or even a planet -- had been torn apart by the gravity of a white dwarf. Scientists now generally agree that a single white dwarf star with heavy elements in its spectrum likely has at least one rocky debris belt -- the remnants of bodies that collided violently and never formed planets -- and probably at least one major planet. So, heavy elements that happened to be floating in the interstellar medium could not account for the observations. "About 90 years after van Maanen's discovery, astronomers said, 'Whoa, this interstellar accretion model can't possibly be right,'" Zuckerman said. Chasing the spectrum Inspired by Zuckerman, Farihi became enamored with the idea that someone had taken a spectrum with the first evidence of exoplanets in 1917, and that a record must exist of that observation. "I got my teeth in the question and I wouldn't let go," he said. Farihi reached out to the Carnegie Observatories, which owns the Mount Wilson telescopes and safeguards their archives. Carnegie Director John Mulchaey put volunteer Dan Kohne on the case. Kohne dug through the archives and, two days later, Mulchaey sent Farihi an image of the spectrum. "I can't say I was shocked, frankly, but I was pleasantly blown out of my seat to see that the signature was there, and could be seen even with the human eye," Farihi said.

Image above: Drawers hosting records at Carnegie Observatories. Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. The spectrum of van Maanen's Star that Farihi had requested is now located in a small archival sleeve, labeled with the handwritten date "1917 Oct 24" and a modern yellow sticky note: "possibly 1st record of an exoplanet."

Image above: The current location of the spectrum of van Maanen's Star, taken Oct. 24, 1917. Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Cynthia Hunt, an astronomer who serves as chair of Carnegie's history committee, took the glass plate out of the envelope and placed it onto a viewer that lit it up. The spectrum itself just about 1/6th of an inch, or a bit over 0.4 centimeters.

Image above: The spectrum of van Maanen's Star. Image Credits: Dan Kohne / Carnegie Observatories. Though the plate seems unremarkable at first glance, Farihi saw two obvious "fangs" representing dips in the spectrum. To him, this was the smoking gun: Two absorption lines from the same calcium ion, meaning there were heavy elements in the photosphere of the white dwarf -- indicating it likely has at least one exoplanet. He wrote about it in 2016 in New Astronomy Reviews.

Image above: Close-up of spectrum of van Maanen's Star. Image Credits: Carnegie Institution for Science. Exoplanets and debris disks Scientists have long thought the gravity of giant planets could be keeping debris belts in place, especially in young planetary systems. A recent study in The Astrophysical Journal showed that young stars with disks of dust and debris are more likely to have giant planets orbiting at great distance from their parent star than those without disks. A white dwarf is not a young star -- on the contrary, it forms when a low-to-medium-mass star has already burned all of the fuel in its interior. But the principle is the same: The gravitational pull of giant exoplanets could throw small, rocky bodies into the white dwarfs. Our own Sun will become a red giant in about 5 billion years, expanding so much it may even swallow Earth before it blows off its outer layers and becomes a white dwarf. At that point, Jupiter's large gravitational influence may be more disruptive to the asteroid belt, flinging objects toward our much-dimmer Sun. This kind of scenario could explain the heavy elements at van Maanen's Star. Spitzer's observations of van Maanen's Star have not found any planets there so far. In fact, to date, no exoplanets have been confirmed orbiting white dwarfs, although one does have an object thought to be a massive planet. Other compelling evidence has emerged just in the last couple of years. Using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, scientists, including Zuckerman, recently announced that they had found evidence of a Kuiper-Belt-like object having been eaten by a white dwarf. Scientists are still exploring polluted white dwarfs and looking for the exoplanets they may host. About 30 percent of all white dwarfs we know about are polluted, but their debris disks are harder to spot. Jura put forward that with lots of asteroids coming in and colliding with debris, dust may be converted into gas, which would not have the same highly detectable infrared signal as dust. Farihi was thrilled about how his Mount Wilson archive detective work turned out. In 2016, he described the historical find in the context of a review paper about polluted white dwarfs, arguing that white dwarfs are "compelling targets for exoplanetary system research." Who knows what other overlooked treasures await discovery in the archives of great observatories -- the sky-watching records of a cosmos rich in subtlety. Surely, other clues will be found by those motivated by curiosity who ask the right questions. "It's personal interaction with data that can really spur us to get invested in the questions that we're asking," Farihi said.

Image above: Happy 100th anniversary to the 100-inch Hooker Telescope! Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Glossary: Exoplanet: a planet orbiting a star other than the Sun. White dwarf: a dim, dense, compact star -- the remnant core that remains after intermediate-mass stars (similar to the Sun) exhaust their nuclear fuel and blow off their outer layers. They are dominated by oxygen and carbon, but often have thin layers of hydrogen and helium. F-type star: a main sequence star that is somewhat hotter, more massive, and more luminous than our Sun. Main asteroid belt: the region between Mars and Jupiter populated by millions of small, rocky bodies. The largest member of this belt is dwarf planet Ceres. Kuiper belt: a disk-shaped region of icy bodies beyond Neptune, whose largest known members include dwarf planets Pluto, Haumea, and Makemake. Related links: New Astronomy Reviews: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.03092 The Astrophysical Journal: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/giant-exoplanet-hunters-look-for-debris-disks For more information about Spitzer, visit http://spitzer.caltech.edu and http://www.nasa.gov/spitzer. Images (mentioned), Text, Credits: NASA/JPL/Elizabeth Landau. Best regards, Orbiter.ch Full article

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GMR (numerous routes so it can go from flowing to technical depending on which route you take)

Anza Borrego (prob my fav sweepers in all the land, but pretty far from me)

Malibu (nice sweepers, 10/10 scenery, Jay Leno)

Angeles Crest (no complaints, just far from me)

Palomar (fun, technical in parts)

Santiago Canyon (short but sweet)

Carbon Canyon (short, less sweet, traffic can suck)

Mulholland (haven't ridden it in a while but it the road quality was pretty bad when i did)

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Trip to Tokyo with J-Hope by neonlynxie featuring map home decor ❤ liked on Polyvore

WearAll red long sleeve top, 27 CAD / Jennifer Lopez petite straight leg jeans, 37 CAD / NIKE white lace up sneaker, 150 CAD / Aéropostale tri color jewelry, 27 CAD / Kenneth Jay Lane double sided stud earrings, 52 CAD / Casetify iphone cover case, 53 CAD / Billabong men s backpack, 33 CAD / It s skin beauty product, 18 CAD / Palomar map home decor, 14 CAD / Canon EOS 6D DSLR Camera with 24-105mm f/4L Lens, 2,655 CAD

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Vulcan wins feature event

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Vulcan wins feature event

Vulcan, ridden by A. Sandesh, won the Cricket Club Of India Trophy, the feature event of Sunday’s (Feb.16) afternoon races. The winner is owned by M/s. Kishore P. Rungta & Mr. & Mrs. Hoosain S. Nensey. Adhirajsingh Jodha trains the winner. Trainer P. Shroff saddled three winners on Sunday.

1. BOMBAY PRESIDENCY RADIO CLUB TROPHY (1,600m), Cl. IV, rated 20 to 46: NEKHBET (Kaviraj) 1, Mishka’s Pride (Trevor) 2, Tasman (Sandesh) 3 and Beemer (David Egan) 4. Nose, 3/4, Snk. 1m 40.60s. ₹ 25 (w), 18 and 24 (p). SHP: 50, FP: 262, Q: 243, Tanala: 336 and 119. Favourite: Tasman. Owners: Mr. K.N. Dhunjibhoy and Mr. Z.K. Dhunjibhoy rep. Five Stars Shipping Co Pvt Ltd & Mr. & Mrs. D.P. Adenwalla. Trainer: P. Shroff.

2. NATIONAL SPORTS CLUB OF INDIA TROPHY (2,000m), Cl. III, rated 40 to 66: EAGLEINTHESKY (Neeraj) 1, Galloping Goldmine (Trevor) 2, Lucky Luciano (C.S. Jodha) 3 and Benevolence (Dashrath) 4. 3/4, 4-1/2, 3-3/4. 2m 4.79s. ₹ 16 (w), 10 and 10 (p). SHP: 26, FP: 24, Q: 19, Tanala: 31 and 19. Favourite: Eagleinthesky. Owners: Mr. & Mrs. Vijay B.Shirke & Mr. Jay V.Shirke. Trainer: P. Shroff.

3. BOMBAY GYMKHANA TROPHY (1,200m), Cl. IV, rated 20 to 46: PALOMAR (Parmar) 1, Guarnerius (Neeraj) 2, Memorable Eyes (Trevor) 3 and Mikayla’s Pride (Peter) 4. Lnk, 1/2, 1-1/2. 1m 12.06s. ₹ 118 (w), 39, 42 and 15 (p). SHP: 85, EXP: 1,231, FP: 2,762, Q: 1,204, Tanala: 20,571 and 2,939. Favourite: Memorable Eyes. Owners: M/s. Gaurav Sethi, Abhimanyu J. Thackersey, Ms. Kannika D. Kocchar & Mr. Chirag Pittie. Trainer: Altamash A. Ahmed.

4. CRICKET CLUB OF INDIA TROPHY (2,400m), Cl. I, rated 80 and upward: VULCAN (Sandesh) 1, Sagittarius (A. Prakash) 2, Magistero (Neeraj) 3 and Momentum (Parmar) 4. 3/4, 4-1/2, Dist. 2m 33.26s. ₹ 22 (w), 1 and 15 (p). SHP: 30, FP: 80, Q: 53, Tanala: 98 and 87. Favourite: Momentum. Owners: M/s. Kishore P.Rungta & Mr. & Mrs. Hoosain S. Nensey. Trainer: Adhirajsingh Jodha.

5. WILLINGDON SPORTS CLUB TROPHY (1,200m), 3-y-o only: INTENSE APPROACH (Nicky Mackay) 1, Accenture (Trevor) 2, Curfew (Santosh) 3 and Fairmont (Chouhan) 4. 8, 12/, 1-1/4, 1m 13.62s. ₹ 14 (p). SHP: 11 and 17 (p). SHP: 25, EXW: 424, FP: 28, Q: 26, Tanala: 121 and 69. Favourite: Intense Approach. Owners: M/s. Jatin L.Trivedi & Rajesh Monga. Trainer: S.K. Sunderji.

6. MALABAR HILL CLUB TROPHY (1,200m), Cl. III, rated 40 to 66: ANATEVKA (Kaviraj) 1, Frieze (C.S. Jodha) 2, Jetfire (Parmar) 3 and Epiphany (Trevor) 4. Lnk, 3-1/4, 1. 1m 11.28s. ₹ 32 (w), 19, 33 and 25 (p). SHP: 105, EXW: 10,384, EXP: 1,692, FP: 524, Q: 460, Tanala: 2,103 and 615. Favourite: Anatevka. Owners: Mr. & Mrs. Vijay B. Shirke & Mr. Keki D. Mehta & Mr. Dara K. Mehta rep. Darashaw Bloodstock Pvt Ltd. Trainer: P. Shroff.

7. GARWARE CLUB TROPHY (1,000m), Cl. II, rated 60 to 86: SILVER FLAMES (David Allan) 1, Joplin (Chouhan) 2, Mystic Bay (David Egan) 3 and Impala (Dashrath) 4. Nk, 1-1/2, 7-3/4. 58.16s. ₹ 18 (w), 13 and 21 (p). SHP: 29, FP: 70, Q: 29, Tanala: 52 and 21. Favourite: Silver Flames. Owners: Mr. Cyrus S. Poonawalla, Mr. Adar C. Poonawalla & Mrs. Natasha A. Poonawalla rep. Villoo Poonawalla Racing & Breeding Pvt Ltd, M/s. Solomon F. Sopher, Dinsha P. Shroff, Munchi P. Shroff & K. Dadachanji. Trainer: Altaf Hussain.

8. OTTERS CLUB TROPHY (1,200m), Cl. V, rated 4 to 30: DIVINE HUNT (Trevor) 1, Luminosity (S. Amit) 2, Macau (Sandesh) 3 and Blazing Bay (Bhawani) 4. 3/4, 4-3/4, 1-1/4. 1m 12.52s. ₹ 17 (w), 15, 29 and 19 (p). SHP: 65, EXW: 818, EXP: 107, FP: 78, Q: 107, Tanala: 281 and 117. Favourite: Divine Hunt. Owner: Mr. Ashok Ranpise. Trainer: Altaf Hussain.

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Going: Alone

Jai Waetford -I Won’t Give Up “the truth about forever is that it is happening right now” ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever Going: Alone ©Ferrer Joey Palomar Fesico Hello baby, I went to sturdy tidy your room. I filed your art works from done to unfinished. I had your old kinder uniform stored and unchanged. Your pictures…

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01-01 RENO, NV - OCTOBER 07: Nevada Wolf Pack staff and head coach Jay Norvell look on as offensive lineman Anthony Palomares #62 of the Nevada Wolf Pack is checked for injuries after a play ... http://dlvr.it/Q8NGFV

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There are three kinds of birthday people out there: 1. those who celebrate their birthday for a month straight, 2. those who let others decide their birthday plans , and 3. those who do not acknowledge, nor celebrate being one year older, and would rather forget about it. I am ashamed, but also proud to admit that I am a good mixture of one and two. As soon as it hits March 1st, I let the world know that it is officially Sana’s birth month, and let the birthday planning begin!

This year I turned 18 years old and my birthday celebration lasted a whole week, from March 10 to March 18. To start off, on my actual birthday, and thank God the start of Spring Break, my mother surprised me with tickets to see Beautiful.

My mother and I seeing Beautiful: The Carole King Story

I will admit at first I was not too excited, but I judged this musical way too quickly. As a music major in college, or just a lover of music, Carole King’s story is amazing, and the cast brought her story to life from beginning to end. It was interesting to see how some of the popular songs we sing on the radio came to be all thanks to one powerful woman. Each song the cast sang was performed almost as if I was taken back in time to the premiere concert. This birthday surprise meant a lot to me because it expanded my music appreciation, showed me how far women have gotten in the music industry, and inspired me to get a start on my musical career.

The next day, my mother and aunt surprised me and my best friend with a reservation at TAO Downtown in New York.

TAO Downtown NYC

As I entered this restaurant, I was completely stunned and impressed. This venue is proper and classy, but also had a club-like vibe. As a social media lover, and blogger, the first thing that stood out to me was the touch screen live camera, where you can take funny, cute videos and send them to yourself through email. Of course, my best friend and I took advantage of this opportunity as quick as we could.

Not only was the ambiance lively, yet sophisticated, but the food was even more spectacular. The menu consisted of items perfect for anyone, whether you are a meat lover, vegetarian, sushi lover, or barbecue lover. The menu was separated by three elements: The Sea (containing seafood items such as fish, shrimp, lobster, etc.), The Land (containing pork, beef, filet mignon, etc.), and The Sky (containing chicken and duck), which was a very creative touch to the restaurant.Here is a sneak peek at our entrees:

This all sounds outstanding, but the dessert menu was even better. Since it was my birthday, I got the bread pudding donuts with vanilla ice cream on the side topped with whip cream. Any mixture of a warm treat and ice cream is bound to be delicious, so I excited a tasty outcome, but this combination was absolutely delicious. My best friend got the warm chocolate cake, which is what the server recommended. As soon as her spoon touched the cake, it oozed out warm, hot chocolate fudge, and from the reaction on her face, I could tell it tasted as good as it looked.

This restaurant will forever receive a generous five-stars from me. The food was tasty, the ambiance could not be beat in such a lively environment, the DJ played everyones favorite songs, and the dessert was certainly to die for. You will definitely not leave this place hungry!

In my opinion, a birthday celebration is truly at its peak when you are lucky enough to go on a “birthday trip”, and this year for my 18th birthday, I went on a birthday trip to the City of Angels: Los Angeles, California.

View of Beverly Hills, California from the Getty Museum

I have been dying to go here and see what the celebrities see on an everyday basis, to sight-see, escape the treacherous blizzard weather of New York, and hope to spot some of my favorite celebs.

DAY 1 : After leaving LAX and grabbing our Chevy Malibu rental car, which would be our means of transportation for the duration of the trip, my aunt and I made our way over to the Getty Museum, which I recommend to every tourist as soon as you get off the plane. This museum is just an introduction to what California has to offer full of breathtaking views and artwork that is outstanding. Here I am rocking a Fashion Nova oversized rosegold sweater dress with GoJane boots in from of the entrance to the Getty Museum:

J. Paul Getty Museum

In order to get a photo of the beautiful view, like the one I have shown above, you have to take a tram up to the top of the mountain where the museum is located. Once you get to the top, you will be glad you did, and feel free to take as many scenic photographs as you like. Besides the beautiful art located inside of the museum, outside there is the Central Garden, shown below, that has tree-lined walkways and trees filled with flowers. In addition to the Central Garden, they also have a humungous cactus garden as well.

Central Garden outside of the Getty Museum

If you’re hungry on your trip to the Getty Museum, there is no need to fear. If you’re feeling like dining feeling fancy, the Restaurant is a good choice. The menu changes seasonally. If you’re going to get a quick bite, or just wanted a relaxed meal, the Cafe has a sandwich bar, salad bar, and grill. I ate at the Cafe and my meal is shown below. Lastly, if you cannot get enough of the outstanding view of the Central Garden, the Garden Terrace Cafe is right outside the Cafe and overlooks the garden and mountainous views of California. However, it is generally only open on Saturday.

Cheeseburger and Sweet Potato Fries at the Cafe at the Getty Museum

After the Getty Museum, we checked into our hotel, Kimpton Palomar Beverly Hills, which the outside is shown below. This hotel met every possible expectation I had. In the lounge area, there were couches were guests could mingle, meet up, and wait for their check in time. Next to the lounge was the bar/restaurant, which at night was very lively, and in the morning was the perfect place to stop by for a quick grab and go breakfast. The customer service desk was exceptional and worked hard to answer every question you had for them ranging form the best restaurants in the area to helping you find reasonable tour tickets. The cleaning services kept our room clean from the time we walked in to the moment we left.

Kimpton Palomar Beverly Hills

After checking into the hotel, and getting a feel for the area we would be staying in, we went for a drive until our reservation at RockSugar Pan Asian Kitchen, which is similar to TAO, but definitely with a captured LA vibe to it, and this is my aunt’s favorite restaurant. The food here was delightful, well spiced, and full of flavor. Appetizers are good when shared, because it can be a lot, and this restaurant is another spot that you cannot leave hungry.

DAY 2: Today we had an early start, but it was definitely worth getting up that early to see the sunrise above the mountains in the morning and see the sun take over the streets of Cali. I started my day off wearing my green longline bomber jacket and black choker from Forever21, my black and white bodysuit from GoJane, Beach Bum Jeans from Fashion Nova, and clear transparent boot from Boohoo (inspired by Kylie Jenner).

My outfit for Day 2 in Cali

We started the morning off with a Starline Hollywood Homes Tour, which I recommend if you’re very involved in celeb life. This tour took us along popular neighborhoods in Beverly Hills, Hollywood Hills, Bel Air, and Hidden Hills, along with a ride down hotspots around Sunset Strip and world famous Rodeo Drive. Some homes we saw included: Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, Beyonce and Jay-Z, Justin Bieber, where the Kardashians have filmed, Lethan Weapon 2 house, Gwen Stefani, Michael Jackson, Walt Disney, Tyler Perry, Denzel Washington, Audrey Hepburn and so many more. Of course I would love to share the beautiful photographs of these houses, but it would surely ruin the experience of the tour. A picture is worth a thousand words, but this live experience tour is definitely worth 2 hours of your time, and you may even feel inspired to buy a house in the area (just like I did).

After leaving the tour, my aunt and I were absolutely starving and needed a place to grab a quick bite to eat before we did our own personal sightseeing. We decided to grab a bite at Napa Valley Grille, which kept us nice and full until our dinner reservation. This sandwich (below) may look like your typical sandwich, but either I was just plain hungry, or this sandwich tasted amazing! The waiters and waitresses were very accommodating, quick, and took care of us like we were queens. Many celebrities come to this restaurant, which the bartender told us, including Halle Berry, and to further his point we even spotted Diego Muñoz, who plays Huck on Scandal.

Sandwich and Sweet Potato Fries at Napa Valley Grille

After we ate, we took a drive down the famous PCH Highway (Pacific Coast Highway), visited Pepperdine, which compared to Rutgers during this season looked like a hotel resort, and continued through Santa Monica to only end up at Venice Beach, which was about an hour from our hotel This beach is very lively, full of bikers, roller skaters, skateboarders, and overall active people, in addition to the musicians and locals who just come here to relax and take a walk. There is so much to see, and we surely could not get it all done in one day, but there are plenty of souvenir shops, clothing stores, bikes to rent, and so much more. Here are some snapchat videos and pictures I took on the way to the beach and on it as well:

Venice Beach

Me at Venice Beach

Me walking on the beach soaking in the sun

After getting our toes wet in some cold Pacific Ocean water, we had to leave to get ourselves enough time to change, and make our dinner reservation. Many people complain about the unbearable “Los Angeles traffic”, but in my opinion, the traffic allows you to take in the scenic routes, and the beautiful mountains of California.

We got to the hotel, and I changed into my Boohoo Kylie side split pink duster and t-shirt midi dress, Fashion Nova gold choker, and BCBGeneration rose gold lace up heels, which is shown below:

Outfit worn to SUR, Lisa Vanderpump restaurant and lounge

The outfit was perfect for our dinner reservation to SUR Restaurant and Lounge, which is one of Lisa Vanderpump’s restaurants in West Hollywood on the corner of Melrose and Robertson, which is also featured on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and Vanderpump Rules.

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This restaurant has a very exotic, yet seductive feel to it, but I will admit was not at all what I imagined. The pictures on the website, as well as how the show shows the restaurant is not exactly how it looked firsthand. The restaurant felt smaller, and I definitely left this restaurant still a bit hungry. I got for an appetizer the shrimp and crab cakes, and after eating this appetizer dish, I realized I would need another appetizer or I would be hungry. They tasted delicious, but 3 was definitely not enough considering how small they were. The second appetizer I ordered were the fried goat cheese balls, which again were delicious, but a few more on the plate would have been nice. For my entree, I got the Roasted Organic Salmon with yams and rice as my side orders. My only critique about the rice and salmon was that it was a tad too salty, but other than that was very delicious. The yams were perfect, and needed no extra seasoning or butter. Below are pictures of my meal:

Despite the food, if you are a huge Lisa Vanderpump fan, like my aunt, and enjoy watching her show and would like to see where the housewives have had their biggest fights and sit where your favorite stars have sat, this is definitely a restaurant to go to. At this restaurant we did have the pleasure of meeting her son, daughter, and other familiar faces from the show, who were glad to come over and say hello.

Me at our table at SUR

We had been told by our Starline tour guide earlier that many tourists go eat their meal at SUR and then walk up the street to PUMP, Lisa Vanderpump’s second restaurant which is rarely filmed in, for their dessert, which is exactly what we did, and as soon as we walked to the entrance, my aunt and I both wished we had our meal at PUMP instead of SUR. This restaurant was way more lively, and had a more welcoming atmosphere.

Photo of Lisa Vanderpump and her husband on every table

Chandeliers above the bar

We sat by the bar, since we did not need to be seated for an entree meal, and ordered our dessert. I got the red velvet cake with vanilla ice cream on the side, and my aunt got the chocolate fudge cake. These cakes were to die for, and the cake was not that expensive either. In addition to this tasty treat, we saw Lisa Vanderpump and her husband in the flesh! Her husband came over and greeted my aunt and I, and we told him what big fans we are. This night out having dinner definitely ended on a more positive note than we could have ever imagined.

DAY 3: Today is my last day in Cali and we definitely left with a bang. We started the day by checking out of the amazing Kimpton Palomar Beverly Hills hotel, and I will certainly be coming back to this hotel when I come to California again. The staff, again, was very helpful, and treated you like royalty. My outfit for this fun-filled day consisted of my black Forever 21 choker, Boohoo oversized distressed denim jacket, Yeezus custom top, Just Fabulous jean in black from Fashion Nova, oversized fishnet tights from Amazon, and my black vans.

Outfit for my final day in Cali

After checking out of the hotel, we made our way to the Warner Brothers Studio Tour in Burbank, California, which was approximately an hour and change away from the hotel, so we left pretty early.

Warner Bros. Studio Tour entrance

Me and the Warner Bros. entrance

The tour starts off with you receiving a card with a letter and you wait until you are called. Inside of the waiting area, you can purchase an official tour guide, with even more information about where you will me touring, and exclusive set photos and fun facts, and there is also a Starbucks (and yes, you can bring food and beverages on the tour). After you are called, you will watch a short, introductory film about Warner Brothers to get you even more excited about being on set where your favorite tv shows and films were shot.

This tour, as well as the Starline tour previously mentioned, are tours you should experience firsthand and do not deserve to be spoiled, but here are some sneak peeks at my experience and all you that can look forward to.

The tour started off as a brief walking tour because our tour bus wasn’t ready yet, but this actually worked out in our favor. Instead of just sitting down in a bus and passing sets by, we were able to walk in and out of sets used in movies such as Lethal Weapon 2, the original Annie, Party Rock Anthem music video set, and many more. Soon after we had walked through a street of extraordinary sets, our bus was ready. We got to ride around and see the sets of multiple movies and tv shows such as Lala Land, Pretty Little Liars, Shameless, Friends, Gremlins, and of course many more. Next, we went to the museum at Warner Brothers which contained the actual costumes and accessories from Suicide Squad, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and Harry Potter. Here is a video of me wearing the Sorting Hat from Harry Potter:

Here are some “Did you know?” fun facts that I learned while on this tour:

When a set wants to change the season from summer to winter, in order for the trees to match the season, the set designers individually pluck the leaves off of the trees, and when going from winter to summer, they have to individually place them back on as well. If you look closely at the backgrounds of some of your favorite tv shows, you can see sometimes that the camera pans a little too far, and in a winter set, at the top of the tree, there are full leaves resembling summer time.

Houses used for one set/show can also be used for 10 other shows and set designers get to decide how they want to change a previously used set by painting doors differently, changing doorknobs, etc.

Tv shows and movies that take place in a house do not have ceilings. In order to add additional lights for the actors/actresses, they need the ceiling open. If the camera has to pan in the direction of the ceiling, they will add a ceiling.

All of the lights inside of a set can make the room 100 degrees or hotter, so they have to add large tubes that connect to air conditioning as soon as they’re done filming to circulate air in the room.

If you are interested in seeing these things for yourself or learning more Hollywood filming fun facts, check out the tour! It is definitely worth attending.

After we finished our tour, since we would not be able to eat until we got to New York, my aunt and I ate at the Smokehouse, which the Warner Brothers tour guide told us is George Clooney’s favorite restaurant in the the Burbank area. After being seated by a friendly, lively staff, and being given some cheesy garlic bread and ribs, with a side of sweet potato fries and beans, that tasted like they were straight out of heaven, I could tell why it is his favorite restaurant. (You could see the crumbs left from the bread!)

My final birthday treat was tickets to Universal Studios Hollywood.

Entrance to the parking lot of Universal Studios Hollywood

Parking in the park is based after cartoon or movie characters such as E.T., and I will admit that the parking was surprisingly not a hassle seeing as it was a Friday evening. In order to get from your parking space to the amusement park, you have to walk through CityWalk, which is full of restaurants, clothing stores, restaurants, souvenir shops, and plenty of areas to hang/chat with family and friends.

CityWalk

You know you have arrived near the amusement park when you see security ready to check your bags, the line for ticket sales, and hear the laughter and screams of tourists and locals all around the park. Another indicator is the beautiful red carpet that takes you to the entrance of the amusement park, which is definitely a popular photoshoot spot before you enjoy all of the thrills within the park.

Me at the Universal Studios Hollywood red carpet

Universal Studios Hollywood has the following rides and attractions: Transformers The Ride- 3D, Revenge of the Mummy the Ride, Jurassic Park the Ride, Animal Actors, Despicable Me Minion Mayhem, the new Walking Dead attraction, WaterWorld, the Special Effects Show that runs about every 30 minutes, the Simpsons Ride, Springfield attraction, the Studio tour including Fast and Furious with video cohost Jimmy Fallon, Fun Land and dino play for the kiddies. Aside from the rides and attractions, there are multiple places to eat (so many that I cannot name them all), and a few are: Starbucks, Sweet Liberty, Krusty Burger, Bumblebee Man’s Taco Truck, Cinnabon, Panda Express, Ben & Jerry’s, Jurassic Cafe, and many more.

My favorite ride at the park was Transformers, because it was extremely realistic. You got 3-D glasses and jump into a car connected to the transformer Evac and start your mission. This ride is very action packed and for a fleeting moment, you’ll fear for your life because it is so real.

An overall comment about this park, compared to the Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey that I usually go to, in terms of waiting for the ride, you will spend most of your wait indoors. For example, while waiting for the Harry Potter ride, our whole wait was inside of the castle surrounded by magical potions, artistic statues similar to the movie, and spent talking to Harry Potter and talking paintings instead of waiting in a long line in the heat. However, these parks differ tremendously in terms of rides. Instead of a Six Flags, or amusement park where there are solely rollercoasters, Universal Studios Hollywood was more attraction based in the sense that rides were more movie-oriented, 3D, and interactive instead of solely screaming your head off on a fast paced ride.

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Hollywood Universal Studios exit

This trip has definitely been an eye-opener for me. Seeing beautiful houses up in Hollywood Hills, and throughout Bel Air, dining in beautiful restaurants, taking in the beautiful weather and personally seeing all of the musical opportunities in Los Angeles as well as in New York, truly opened my eyes to all of the possibilities. Many look at this kind of lifestyle as strictly for celebrities and the absolutely rich, but in reality, it is accessible. Not every celebrity or “rich” person grew up that way, and many had to work their way to the top and earn that kind of lifestyle, and it shows you that it is humanly possible. After only being in California for a few days, I would like to spend many more days there and see what musical opportunities are available for me and all I wish to achieve in my lifetime.

Sana Says create a dream board, look at a million pictures of your dream house, dream job, dream lifestyle, and make that dream a temporary goal. Once you reach this goal and get your dream house, job and lifestyle, recognize it as only temporary, and plot for what’s next for you. I surely will, and don’t be too shocked when you see me in my new Hollywood Hills home with my family plotting what’s next.

As Drake says in his song “Pop Style”: Turn my birthday into a lifestyle.

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