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Thursday, February 21, 2019

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Joli St. Pierre of Rolling Meadows, right, talks to her cousin, Kyilee Baron of Crystal Lake during a previous Gold Medal Fashion Show. The show is sponsored by the Special Leisure Services Foundation to raise money for the Northwest Special Recreation Association to help children and adults with disabilities.

Gold Medal Fashion Show benefits special needs recreation

The 29th Annual Gold Medal Fashion Show will showcase kids and young adult "people of all abilities" as models during a fundraiser on Sunday, Feb. 24, at The Meadows Club in Rolling Meadows.
The Nest Secure alarm system. Customers were caught off guard in early February when Google announced its home security system, Nest Secure, would be able to act as an AI-powered Google Assistant after a recent update. Until then, customers weren’t aware that Nest Secure had a microphone at all.

Google forgot to notify customers it put microphones in Nest security systems

Customers were caught off guard in early February when Google announced its home security system, Nest Secure, would be able to act as an AI-powered Google Assistant after a recent update. Until then, customers weren't aware that Nest Secure had a microphone at all.
Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) President Tim Lennon from Tucson, Ariz., center, and SNAP members Esther Hatfield Miller from Los Angeles, Calif., left, and Carol Midboe from Austin, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican during Pope Francis' general audience, Wednesday, Feb. 20. Organizers of Pope Francis' summit on preventing clergy sex abuse met with a dozen survivor-activists who have come to Rome to protest the Catholic Church's response to date and demand an end to decades of cover-up by church leaders.

Abuse survivors demand Vatican transparency, accountability

Survivors of clergy sex abuse on Wednesday demanded transparency, zero tolerance for abuse and accountability for religious superiors who cover up for rapists, setting a confrontational tone on the eve of Pope Francis' high-stakes abuse prevention summit.
Peanut Blossom Cookies

Peanut blossom cookies with a more robust peanut flavor

Funny enough, adding more peanut butter won't make your peanut butter cookies, well, more peanutty. Here's how …
“Paolo and Francesca” is a painting by the French artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, produced in seven known versions between 1814 and 1819. It derives from the story of Paolo and Francesca in Dante’s “Inferno.” Tchaikovsky’s tone poem, “Francesca da Rimini,” is an interpretation of the tragic tale.
Russia Distilled in Elgin explores culture through food, drink, music
Explore Russian culture through food, drink and music at an upcoming event at Artspace Elgin.
A Yorkie rescued from a dog meat farm in South Korea is now under the care of a Hillside-based Magnificent Mutts & Meows Rescue.
Dogs saved from South Korean meat farm find freedom, care in suburbs
It didn't take long for Linda Latelle to bond with Ellen, a Maltese she will introduce to human affection, a haircut and eventually a home after a life spent in a dog meat farm in South Korea.
Finished and ready for plating, Julia Child’s boeuf bourguinon.
An Oscar-worthy meal to accompany Academy Awards viewing
Watching the Oscars is so much more fun if you link your favorite films and foods to serve. Penny Kazmier is cooking Julia Child's famed boeuf bourguignon, from "Julie & Julia," to serve while watching this year.
Jonathan Holiday of Bartlett, right, and his mother, Tiffany, meet Clark the Cub at the Cubs front office building Monday. Jonathan and six other children who are patients at Advocate Children’s Hospital in Park Ridge were selected for a trip to Cubs spring training in Mesa, Arizona.
Advocate Children's Hospital patients going on surprise Cubs spring training trip
Seven children who are patients at Advocate Children's Hospital in Park Ridge and their families will be flown to Cubs spring training in Mesa, Arizona -- a surprise trip for those undergoing treatment.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is posting the high and low temperatures of Mars online, along with wind speed and atmospheric pressure from the InSight lander.
And now for the weather on Mars, courtesy of new NASA lander
And now for the weather on Mars: NASA's newest lander is offering daily reports on the red planet's frigid winter.
Actors and actresses, including John Volk as Gaston, in red, middle, perform their parts during a dress rehearsal for Special Gifts Theatre’s production of “Beauty and the Beast” in Libertyville.
A chance to shine: Actors with disabilities experience the joy, enrichment of theater
Special Gifts Theatre, a non-profit, educational and therapeutic theater company for individuals with intellectual disabilities, is bringing its concept to Libertyville with a production of "Beauty and the Beast" at Copeland Manor School.
Alex Ty Kovach, executive director of the Lake County Forest Preserves, wants to culturally change the way area residents look at the landscape.
Lake County Forest Preserves leader keeps an eye toward the future
Alex Ty Kovach, executive director of the Lake County Forest Preserves, explains why he wants to culturally change the way area residents look at the landscape now and for the future.
Paul Augustine is the coordinator of a new military veterans program at Anderson Animal Shelter in South Elgin. Augustine, an Army veteran, is pictured here last week with Precious, one of the shelter’s dogs.
South Elgin animal shelter looking for military veterans
If you're a military veteran and want to volunteer to help dogs -- who in turn might help you -- a South Elgin animal shelter is looking for you.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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