BEVERLY HILLS
October 24, 2014 | Page 15
UCLA GALACTIC CENTER Fred and Joyce Hameetman generously hosted a special event and dinner at The Wallis to inform a group of scientists and patrons of the most recent advances of the UCLA Galactic Center, which uses the W.M. Keck Observatory atop Hawaii’s dormant Mauna Kea volcano, along with a powerful technology called Adaptive Optics (AO) that Ghez helped pioneer for use in astronomy. AO corrects the distorting the effects of the Earth’s atmosphere in real time. The clear pictures AO provides have shown that exactly what happens near a supermassive black hole is quite different than what theoretical models have predicted, challenging many of our notions of how black holes shape our galaxy.
Fred Willard
Andrea Ghez, Director and Founder of the UCLA Galactic Center Group
Arthur Levine and Lauren Leichtman
Jerry & Lois Magnin Mr. & Mrs. Raehan Qureshi
Kathy & Frank Baxter
Virginia and Michael Kazanjian
Lynda Oschin
Stanley Black & Flora Zomorodi Gloria & Glen Holden
UCLA band members performed
‘Healthy Lunch, Healthy City’ Helps Beverly Hills Become A Prepared City at Mayor’s Healthy Lunch and Learn By Victoria Talbot The Municipal Gallery was standing room only Wednesday as guests listened raptly to advice on preparedness by Pamela Mottice Muller, the City’s Director of Emergency Management, and the Health and Safety Commission. Well over 100 people filled the gallery for a light lunch and some straight talk on what to do in the event a disaster and how to help and get help in the community. “I believe that a healthy city is a prepared city,” said Mayor Lili Bosse. The event is a feature of Mayor Bosse’s Healthy City initiative. Each month the City addresses a new topic of interest to the general public featuring healthy living. Attendees learned about the community’s preparedness and response plans for emer-
gencies. The City has a plan for catastrophic events; knowing what that it is and how to respond can be a key ingredient to survival in such an event. To discover more about the City’s preparedness, please visit Disaster Planning for Residents at www.beverlyhills.org. The next Beverly Hills Healthy City event will feature “healthy holidays,” on Wednesday, November 19, just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday season kick-off. Cedars-Sinai speakers will join Beverly Hills’ own Barbara Lindner of the Greystone Demonstration Garden. The event will address managing stress, healthy eating and being happy for the holidays and will be at the Municipal Gallery at City Hall from 5-6 p.m. For more information call (310) 285-2537.
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TA L E N T S H O W — Beverly Hills students put on a talent show last Thursday and it was a great success! “It reminded me of the glory days on that stage, when the whole school would do something called, ‘Hello Day’ when a whole group of people wouldn’t normally perform would get to perform,” said Board of Education President Noah Margo, who was among the judges. “It showed me how talented our student body is.” The show was entirely put on by BHHS students. Daniel Newman served as chairman. Pictured clockwise from top left: Alan Wheeler, Tim Lee and Leah Suh, Daniel Newman and David Younessi, and Bardia Soltani and Dan Park.
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