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American Idol is an American singing competition. It is part of the Idol series, originating from the UK show Pop Idol, a singing contest to determine the best singer in the UK. In recent years it has become one of the most highly publicized music competitions in the world, reaching the status of a phenomenon.
Season 1
The first season of American Idol debuted without hype as a summer replacement show in June 2002 on the Fox Broadcasting Company after being rejected by numerous other networks. The show’s co-hosts were Ryan Seacrest and Brian Dunkleman. Through word of mouth generated by the appeal of its contestants and the presence of acid-tongued British judge Simon Cowell, the show grew into a phenomenon. An estimated fifty million people watched the Season 1 finale in September 2002. Following such a success, the second season was moved to air the upcoming January.
Season 2
In Season 2, Seacrest surfaced as the lone host. Dunkleman reportedly hated working on the show and the studio was dissatisfied with his performance. Kristin Holt was a special correspondent. This time, Ruben Studdard emerged as the winner with Clay Aiken as a very close runner-up. Out of 24 million votes recorded, Studdard finished just 130,000 votes ahead of Aiken.
Season 3
The third season of American Idol premiered on January 19, 2004. The winner of this season of American Idol was Fantasia Barrino, later known professionally as simply “Fantasia,” and the runner-up was Diana Degarmo. This was also the season that Golden Globe Award-winning and Acadamy Award-winning actress Jennifer Hudson was discovered.
Season 4
The fourth season of American Idol premiered on January 18, 2005. It was the first season in which the age limit was raised to 28, in order to increase variety. All Season 4 contestants had to be between the ages of 16 and 28 on August 4, 2004, born on or between August 5, 1975 and August 4, 1988. Among those who benefited from this new rule were Constantine Maroulis (born September 17, 1975) and Bo Bice (born November 1, 1975), considered to be the eldest and somewhat most experienced of the season’s Idol contestants. They were also constantly mentioned by Seacrest and in the media as “the two rockers”, since their long hair and choice of rock songs made them stand out from conventional Idol standards. The presence of more rock-oriented contestants has continued with Chris Daughtry in Season 5, who was inspired to audition for the show by Bice.
This season also implemented new rules for the final portion of the contest. Instead of competing in semi-final heats in which the top vote-getters are promoted to the final round, 24 semi-finalists were named; 12 men and 12 women, who competed separately, with 2 of each gender being voted off each week until 12 finalists were left.
Season 5
The fifth season of American Idol began on January 17, 2006; this was the first season of the series to be aired in high definition. Auditions were in Austin, Boston, Chicago, Denver and San Francisco, with Greensboro, North Carolina and Las Vegas, Nevada included after the cancellation of the Memphis auditions due to Hurricane Katrina. The season used the same rules as Season 4. Contestants had to be between the ages of 16 and 28 on 2005, being born on or between August 16, 1976 and 1989. Chris Daughtry was discovered during this season after being voted in one of the most surprising eliminations.
Finalist Bucky Covington also had prior troubles with the law. Coincidentally, Covington’s crimes involved himself and his twin brother, Rocky. The two had allegedly switched spots in 1998 to confuse the police. However, this prior crime had no effect on Covington’s time on American Idol, and he was voted off on April 12.
Season 6
American Idol Season 6 began on Tuesday, January 16, 2007. The premiere episode of the season drew a massive audience of 37.7 million viewers, peaking in the last half hour with more than 41 million viewers. It has been reported that the 2006 British The X Factor winner Leona Lewis is scheduled to perform on an early episode of American Idol Season 6, thanks to the connection with Simon Cowell.
Season 7
The seventh season of American Idol is expected to take place beginning in January 2008, with auditions likely to be held starting in July 2007. Few other details are known at this time.
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New band Capital Crime. First show at Chicago Pizza. Just a bunch of br00t4l kids making noise in your hood.
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Campaign Approved! This video was shot and edited by Eric Byler as a volunteer for the campaign to elect progressive community leader Naisy Dolar as Chicago’s first Asian Pacific American Alderman (City Council Member). Dolar faces a Runoff election Apirl 17th against decades-long incumbent Bernie Stone. Additonal videography by John Moore. Sound recording by Jon Monteverde. Special thanks to Jay Monteverde and John Park.
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Gauri Jog and her students presented Kathak Jazz and Jai Ho, a bollywood popular song from Oscar winning movie Slumdog Millionaire at a rally for Olympics 2016. Chicago Mayor Richard M Daley and ambassadors from various countries were dignatories to see the show. The dance was choreographed by Gauri Jog and Isha Jog. Staged on March 21, 2009 and was covered by ABC, NBC, Asia TV and various newspapers in north America.
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Soreal Cru goes back to school, and stops by Northwestern University.
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2319 East 100th still stands – it’s where Mr. Speck killed 8 nursing students. We speak briefly with the fella who owns the building today.
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http://thechicagocouncil.org/chicago_council_board_directors.php
Just for fun background Michelle’s buddies, the other predatory globalist board members of the Chicago council… Like Michael H. Moskow, who also serves as a director of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City & is Chicago FEDERAL RESERVE president and CEO.
Check out fellow board member William Daley who also sits on the council on foreign relations in NY, is on the board of Boeing and is Midwest CHAIRMAN of JPMORGAN CHASE…and James Dimon, the current CEO and chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Through a series of unprecedented mergers and acquisitions, in 1998 Dimon and Weill were able to form the largest financial services conglomerate the world had ever seen, Citigroup, now as powerful and involved with the NWO and CFR as Goldman Sachs has been. You might notice that one of Michelle’s buddies on the board include David W. Johnson
Managing Director, Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
Right above Michelle Obama you can see Wayne L. Moore, the managing director of Goldman Sachs, whose CEO also co-chairs not only British Petrolium but the Trilateral Commission itself. Goldman Sachs is a multi-national investment bank who is helping Canwest’s Leonard Asper of the CCCE (the group that helped the CFR form the SPP) buy up EVERY major media outlet in Canada to complement Canwest’s media holdings in Australia. When backgrounding major predatory globalists I notice that connections to the Rothschild family, the Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg and Goldman Sachs sometimes pop up even more than The CFR, The Rockefellers and JP morgan chase do.
Also present on the Chicago Council is James H. M. Sprayregen
Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Cyrus F. Freidheim, Jr.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Sun-Times Media Group, Inc.
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This is a successful piece of music compositon by a hundred+ volunteers from Chicago.This song was awarded honorary certificate by Beijing Olympic Organization Committee.
“A Pledge of Love”,composed by Frank K Leung, M.D.;
Orchestration by 2006 Emmy Award Gary Fry;
Lyrics by Mary and Bill Adee, Yvonne Song and Mei Lin;
Lead chorus performance by 2007 Grammy Award New Trier Swing Choir (conductor: Nathan Landes); West Tennessee Youth Chorus (Martha Wright).
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ENGLISH MTV:
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Old school mix w/ old school pics.
Tracklist:
1.Two Without Hats-Try Yazz
2.White Knight-Gonna Jack
3.Pink Noise-Give Me Energy
4.*Robin Wants Revenge or Well(Franklie)My Son
5.Jungle Crew-Elektric Dance
6.Steve “Silk” Hurley-Work It Out
7.Journey Into Sound feat. M.C. X-Pump It Up ( Yeah Baby)
8.J.M. Silk-I Can’t Turn Around
9.Mario Diaz feat. Mr. Lee-Can You Feel It
10.Fast Eddie-Can U Still Dance
11.The It-Donnie(acapella)
12.Liaz-House Sensation
*track 4 on my bootleg(Larry Sherman’s Record Review)says the song is Robin Wants Revenge but Discogs.com says the name is Well (Franklie) My Son.I’m not sure which is correct.If you know let me know.Thanks dawg.
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I could be describing that luscious blonde as she sashays across the room or that tanned muscular hunk as he enters the room, but Iâm not. Iâm describing the brilliant ambiance of the Wall Sconce. Â
It creates a welcoming atmosphere with its illumination, color and design. It can provide soft romantic lighting or bright enough lighting to read by. It fits in wherever space is needed and provides that decorative touch that we all desire.
It will even make your room larger than it is. It also can highlight other pieces of art work that you have on your walls, or that main attraction such as your fire place. This will also direct the eyes to the spot you want yourself and others to notice.
You can easily mount the sconces to your wall with little or no installation needed. For the electrical sconces there is some installation needed, but with these you can easily save on energy with a dimmer switch. You can also have Candle Wall Sconces in any size, color or scent that you wish.
In early American society the candle wall sconce was the only form of lighting. Now it is used for every room of the house as well as outside the house. One of my friends actually has a water system that the candles float in and lights up their patio.
My niece has a couple of toddlers and purchased several of these because they are high enough up on the walls to be child proof. She has told me time and again how much safer she feels using the sconces instead of lamps with all the electrical cords.
There are so many styles to choose from such as Victorian, Colonial, Contemporary and Western. There are also many materials to choose from like copper, metal, wrought iron, glass, ceramic and others.
It used to be that hallways and corridors were the only place you would find these in, but not any more. If you want to create a Wow factor with direct or indirect lighting, you canât loose with the Wall Sconce.
Author Bio:Â Barbara Tobiasz resides with her husband (Joe Tobiasz, Owner/Webmaster: http://www.wall-decor-concepts.com) Â in the Chicago area, studied at the Art Institute and taught for the Chicago Public Schools. She has volunteered her services for many organizations with her creative expressions in the interior design field.Â
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