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Paramount Assembles Big Talents from the Studio's 100 Year History
by Ethan Anderton
June 11, 2012
Source: Vanity Fair
It's been quite a celebratory year for Paramount Pictures in the wake of the studio's 100th anniversary. The studio has already released a cool iPad app, an awesome commemorative poster and a new logo that's been all over the big screen. Now the long history of one of Hollywood's most iconic studios is on display in a very cool way. Vanity Fair captured a total of 116 of the biggest and brightest talents from the studios' past including actors, directors, producers and even a few executives responsible for the most iconic films like The Godfather, Indiana Jones, Iron Man and many more. See if you can spot your favorite stars!
Now the photo is so big that we've only included a fraction of it below. But you can go to Vanity Fair's website to see the whole photo where you can hover over every inch and see the names of everyone included:
From Harrison Ford to Tom Cruise on the superstar side of things to Steven Spielberg and J.J. Abrams behind the camera. Producers like Robert Evans are in the mix and even Sumner Redstone, the biggest honcho of them all, came along. Generations of stars are represented from Billy Dee Williams (he's aged quite a bit since his Lando Calrissian days) to Shia LaBeouf. Even less active talents like Dana Carvey and Molly Ringwald get a spot. This is truly an epic photo and if someone took out the location of this photoshoot, Hollywood would be in sad shape. Now how do we get them to make a movie together?
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Children's author, illustrator Maurice Sendak dies
Children's author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, recipient of the Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are, died Tuesday in Danbury, Connecticut. The Ridgefield, Connecticut resident was 83.
The cause was complications from a recent, massive stroke, said longtime editor Michael di Capua.
Sendak wrote or illustrated nearly 100 books in a 65-year career, during which he received every conceivable honor.
His Where the Wild Things Are led to a 2009 feature film combining live action and CG animation, distributed by Warner Bros. It was also the basis of the 1973 Kratky Film Praha/Weston Woods animated short of the same name.
Sendak was writer and executive producer of the 1995-96 Nelvana series Little Bear, as well as 2001's The Little Bear Movie. Writer and executive producer of Nelvana's Seven Little Monsters (2000-03), he was executive producer of the Canadian studio's 1999 series George and Martha.
He wrote the 1987 Weston Woods Studios/Krátký Film Praha short In the Night Kitchen (1987), as well as the "Prologue" segment of the 1977 TV special Simple Gifts. Sendak wrote, directed, and was art director of the 1975 CBS cartoon special Really Rosie, even providing the voice of Jenny's bark. And in 2010, he was writer and executive producer of the 2010 cartoon video movie Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life.
He was dubbed by one critic "the Picasso of children's literature" and once addressed by former United States president Bill Clinton as "the King of Dreams."
Sendak's best-known books included Chicken Soup with Rice (1962), Where the Wild Things Are (1963) and In the Night Kitchen (1970).
Maurice Bernard Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 10, 1928 to Jewish immigrant parents from northern Poland, and grew up idolizing the storytelling abilities of his father Philip and big brother Jack. As a child, he illustrated his first stories on shirt cardboard provided by his tailor-father.
Aside from a few night classes in art after graduating high school, Sendak was a largely self-taught artist. His characters, stories and inspirations were drawn from among his own neighbors, family, pop culture, historical sources, literary influences and long-held childhood memories.
He worked with such well-known children's authors as Ruth Krauss, Else Minarik, and Arthur Yorinks, and illustrated books by Leo Tolstoy, Herman Melville, Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Brothers Grimm and the poet Randall Jarrell. Sendak began a second career as a costume and stage designer in the late 1970s, designing operas by Mozart, Prokofiev, Ravel and Tchaikovsky, among others.
He won numerous awards, including a Newberry Medal, the international Hans Christian Andersen Award, a National Book Award, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award and the National Medal of Arts.
Read by millions of children and adults, his books were translated into dozens of languages and enjoyed all over the world.
Philadelphia's Rosenbach Museum & Library has been the home of his picture book artwork since the late 1960s.
Maurice Sendak's companion of half a century, Eugene Glynn, a psychiatrist who specialized in treating young people, died in 2007. No immediate family members survive.


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The strange case of poisoned pen letters sent to political leaders gets stranger by the day.
First, an Elvis impersonator from Tupelo was nabbed. No ricin was found on his premises, and he was released. During questioning, however, he fingered an erstwhile friend, Everett Dutschke, who was arrested Saturday. Today, as Dutschke appeared in court, NBC's Pete Williams told Andrea Mitchell that Dutschke used to be a Wayne Newton impersonator. ("Danke schoen! Save those lies, darling, don't explain!")
Why were the ricin-laced letters sent to Obama, a Mississippi senator and retired judge?
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Italian helicopter manufacturer AgustaWestland has received $74 million from the UK Government Regional Growth Fund to help develop the AW609 civil tiltrotor and future tiltrotor designs. AW said it will work with the National Composites Centre, the University of Liverpool and key UK suppliers on the program. The tiltrotor is slated for certification in 2016. AgustaWestland said it would contribute more than $87 million to the program. Proceeds will be used in part to build a commercial helicopter final assembly line, helicopter maintenance facility, helicopter training academy in conjunction with the Aerohub at Newquay Cornwall Airport, and a helicopter R&D center in conjunction with industry and academia.
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Mally Roncal, 38
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The celebrity makeup artist launched her own eponymous beauty line in 2004.
Biggest mistake: Not being me
"When I was starting out, I wore tons of makeup, short skirts, and high heels. Once, a famous hairdresser pulled me aside at a shoot and told me that everyone was laughing at me. I went home and cried. The next day I came back wearing jeans and no makeup. But I felt like I wasn't doing my thing. That's when I said, 'Fuck it. I have to be who I am.' I probably looked like RuPaul at some shoots. But no matter what, you have to stay true to who you are."
Felicia Day, 30
Creator of The Guild
The TV actress writes, produces, and stars in the monster-hit Web series The Guild.
"I had these ideas and characters in my head. But I wasn't brave enough, didn't have the self-discipline to sit down and put them on paper. It seemed so scary to me that I might fail, that I wouldn't be any good at writing or that I'd waste my time. So I finally laid down the law and gave myself a deadline. I tried to write one hour a day, and yes, I fell off the wagon a lot. But that was a huge step for me—I wasn't going to indulge myself anymore."
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Paladin Registry announced Gregory Bunger, W Ben Keel, and Kathleen Covey were awarded a 5 star quality rating and admitted to the Paladin Registry of financial professionals.
Sacramento, CA, January 30, 2013, Investor Watchdog announced Gregory Bunger, W Ben Keel III, and Kathleen Covey were awarded a 5 star quality rating and admitted to the Paladin Registry of Financial Professionals.
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Gregory Bunger (Southbury, CT) has worked in the financial services industry for 15 years. He received a BA from Hamilton College. He is a Certified Financial PlannerTM. Bunger provides planning and investment services to businesses, individuals and families. See Bunger's online profile at http://www.paladinregistry.com/
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In a big data environment, organizations must improve the level of trust users have in information, ensure consistency of data, and establish safeguards over information. When information is trusted, businesses can optimize outcomes. Developing this level of trust requires an information integration and governance platform that supports a big data strategy.
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Many organizations pursue big data analytics to find breakthrough insights that give them a competitive advantage. They are competing on analytics. But organizations can't really compete on analytics alone. The reality is organizations are competing on information and analytics – and in order for the information to be acted upon, it must be trusted. In the new era of computing, companies must ensure that their analytics are driven by trusted data.
What makes an organization and its users trust information? We believe that there are six key factors involved:
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Result of AGM
JSFC Sistema
Sistema (LSE:SSA), the largest diversified public financial corporation
in Russia and the CIS, which manages large companies operating in
different industries, today announced the decisions made at the Annual
General Meeting of its shareholders (the "AGM") on June 27, 2009.
The Board of Directors was expanded from 10 to 13 members. The AGM
approved the election of three new members to the Board of Directors:
Leonid Melamed, President and CEO of Sistema, Rajiv Mehrotra, member of
the Board of Directors of Sistema Shyam Teleservices, Robert Kocharyan,
an independent director. The Board of Directors, therefore, comprises 4
independent non-executive directors and consists of 13 members.
The shareholders approved the election of the members of the Board of
Directors as follows:
At the statutory Board meeting following the AGM, the Board of Directors
appointed Vladimir Evtushenkov as Chairman.
The AGM approved the Company's Annual Report and annual financial
statements for 2008. The AGM also made a decision not to pay dividends
for 2008.
Gorislavtsev and K. Audit was appointed as Sistema's Russian Accounting
Standards auditor for 2009, and Deloitte & Touche CIS was appointed as
Sistema's US GAAP auditor for 2009. The AGM also elected the Audit
Robert Kocharyan was born in 1954 in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh
Autonomous Oblast. From 1998 to 2008, Mr. Kocharyan was the President of
Armenia. Prior, from 1997 to 1998, he served as Prime Minister of
Armenia. From 1994 to 1997, Mr. Kocharyan was President of
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. From 1992 to 1994, he served as Chairman of
the State Defense Committee and Prime Minister of the Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic. In 1991, he was elected a deputy of the Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic's Supreme Soviet of the first convocation. In 1989 and in 1990,
Mr. Kocharyan was a deputy of Armenia's Supreme Soviet and member of the
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. Prior to that, he worked in
Stepanakert's electro-technical plant and occupied various posts in
Nagorno Karabakh's youth communist and party organisations. In 1982,
Robert Kocharyan graduated from Yerevan Polytechnic Institute.
Rajiv Mehrotra was born in 1954. Mr. Mehrota is a founder of Shyam
Group of India, where he serves as Chairman and Managing Director. He
was also instrumental in establishing Shyam Telecom, one of the leading
providers of mobile communications solutions. Mr. Mehrota is also one of
the founders of Shyam Telelink (now Sistema Shyam Teleservices), one of
the first CDMA 2000 mobile network operators in India. He actively
cooperates with the Association of Basic Telecom Operators, and is a
member of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry
(FICCI) Telecom Committee. Mr. Mehrota is a member of the Board of
Directors of Sistema Shyam Teleservices.
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Sistema is the largest public diversified financial corporation in
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customers in the sectors of telecommunications, high-tech, oil and
energy, radio and aerospace, banking, real estate, retail, mass-media,
tourism and healthcare services. Founded in 1993, the company reported
revenues of US$ 16.7 billion and US$ 2.8 billion for the full year 2008
and the first quarter of 2009 respectively, and total assets of US$ 27.1
billion as at March 31, 2009. Sistema's shares are listed under the
symbol "SSA" on the London Stock Exchange, under the symbol "AFKS" on
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Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX), and under the symbol "SIST" on the
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completed on the terms contained therein or at all. We do not intend to
update these statements to reflect events and circumstances occurring
after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated
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including, among others, general economic conditions, our competitive
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For supper this evening, we made hamburgers on ciabatta rolls. We topped the burgers with crumbled blue cheese and a dollop of "Bacon Jam".
What would have been an otherwise bland burger, this really put a gourmet spin to a tired-out burger.
I thought of endless ways to use this jam. But, as this article states, "Slather it on burgers, clearly. Egg sandwiches. Grilled cheese. Waffles. Crostini. Surprise us. Surprise yourself."
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The images in this book reflect Gods beauty at a camp founded by Ruth Huff. The spiritul quotations by Mary Baker Eddy help describe the love we should all have for this world we live in.
God speaks to each of us in different ways. We live in a sacred place— an environment existing in a delicate balance, a world whose distinct sounds and visual grandeur are often trampled beneath the rush of everyday life. Nature gives us the opportunity to stop, listen and look so we can explore God's ever changing canvas of life, revealed by light, creating the colors, lines, forms, shapes and textures that express the love and harmony God has for each of us.
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"Kirmalak" is written and composed by Lebanese singer Marwan Khoury.
Elissa is still finishing her new album, even though production company 'Rotana' has scheduled its release just after this coming Ramadan season.
The Lebanese singer has just returned from Paris where she attended a fashion show for internationally renowned Lebanese designer Elie Saab. Elissa also attended the opening of his new store on Avonto Montan Street located in the heart of one of the most famous Parisian shopping districts.
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I have had a problem for the past couple of years with vines that do not flower and have produced no grapes. They are in sun and appear healthy. Is there anything I can do?
Try to picture a vineyard in which the vines haven't been mercilessly pruned to within a few feet of their lives. It would be an impassable sea of lolloping green stems punctuated, occasionally, by the odd bunch of grapes. My guess - given that you don't even mention pruning - is that you are not taking these galumphing plants in hand firmly enough, and so they are going their own wild way. You need to develop a framework that comprises one main stem with fruiting spurs coming off of it. Shorten and tie in your chosen main stem (remove any others) and cut back all of its side shoots so that there are just two buds on each. Do this before Christmas, or you will get bleeding sap.
I have a lovely big Mexican yucca in my garden and nearly lost it to frost last winter. Please could you tell me how to frost-proof the plant? I have no idea what materials I should use and whether I need to cover it completely or let it breathe.
I am surprised you nearly lost it. Most yuccas are pretty tough - they usually get through with little or no protection - and last winter was not especially cold. It was fairly wet, though, at points, and I wonder if that was the problem. Yuccas need to be planted into really well-drained soil, so that they never sit in cold, wet ground. If you are on clay soil and failed to mix in grit before planting, then you may always struggle to keep your plant going. Having said that, a wrap of horticultural fleece covering it and pinned into the soil will stop the worst of the wet from getting at the roots, or into the crown, which is the other potential problem point.


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Goeun Park: After graduation, what's next step?
"What year is it?" I half screamed to my parents, my pen poised above the May 11, 2013.
While this question might have been acceptable five months ago, it's nothing less than slightly pathetic right now. After all the "CLASS OF 2013!" memorabilia I've been bombarded with in the last week, one would think that I'd remember my own graduation year.
I've noticed that as I get older, my sense of time becomes more and more skewed. When I was younger, time was of the utmost importance. I marked every mundane anniversary, every obscure holiday. I remember bragging how I was not just 8, I was 8½, thank you very much.
These days, I'm never quite sure what day it is. My weeks are punctuated by deadlines, my hours marked by school bells. Oh, such is the glorious life of a high schooler. Except, I won't be one for long.
On the high school website, the countdown to graduation ticks in sync to my hyperventilating lungs. Of course, I shouldn't be shocked; it wasn't like someone suddenly came up to me and said, "Oh hey, this is short notice but you're gonna leave Detroit Lakes High School forever in two weeks so you better be ready!"
Trust me, I didn't forget. I've year 2013 has been burned into my conscience since I was in first grade. I've known about graduation in the back of my mind for years — I just haven't considered it as a real, tangible thing. As a thing that will actually happen in the very near future, not a fourth of my lifetime later.
What scares me the most is that I don't know what's going to happen. Well, I know what's supposed to happen: I'll graduate high school and go to college and turn 19 and then 20 and then 21 and then maybe even 22 if I don't contract lethal meningitis or cholera. But what's after that? What's after 22? Graduate school? Unemployment? Zombie apocalypse?
What's the rest of my life? The uncertainty kind of terrifies me.
When I was 8½, my scope of the future was painfully short.
I'm not nostalgic about the past; not nearly enough time has passed to dilute the trauma of being 15. (For those of you who are 15 or will one day be 15: I am so sorry. If it's any consolation at all, it's wretched for almost everyone.) But I long for those years when time passed slowly, when time was a box to fill with easy laughter and library books, not a race to the finish line.
At least, that's what I think now. Ten years from today, I'm sure I'll be wallowing in this exact same sentiment, only "eight-and-a-half" will be "18-going-on-19." That's how time works, isn't it? It seems to go so fast or so slow until it's gone.
In case anyone else needs a reminder: it's 2013. It's 2013, but it won't be for long, I promise. The clock's ticking and it's about time I stopped wasting your precious time with this column. (In other words, see you next week, folks!)
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By Capt. Patrick Sciacca — March 2002
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Although I utilized Laser Plot's Marine Track only for positioning, the company says the system can currently monitor one parameter such as high bilge water with a serial port tie into the Inmarsat-D+. In the event that the sensor is triggered, the message is sent via transceiver to Laser Plot, which then informs the owner. Laser Plot says it plans to add a black-box system with an embedded GPS chip (like the other systems listed here) in the near future. The system will work similarly to the Watchman and Sea Trac, gathering information from an array of sensors. The black box will also allow boat owners to log on to the Marine Track Web site and remotely make adjustments to onboard systems such as air conditioning, refrigeration, engine stop, and lights.
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SEMINOLE — Four teens were killed and another injured in a crash Friday night that shook a sleepy neighborhood and shocked a tight-knit community.
The five high school students were driving on 86th Avenue N when they collided with another car at 141st Way, according to witnesses and neighbors.
Authorities said the crash happened about 11:15 p.m. Speed was a factor, officials said.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Richard Allen Goltl, 42, was driving a 1993 Chevrolet Lumina Z34 westbound on 86th Avenue N when 16-year-old Joseph Scott Ruzecki, driving a 2005 Lexus IS300, approached from behind.
FHP said the accident took place when Ruzecki attempted to pass on the left as Goltl turned left onto 141st Way. After the collision, Ruzicki's vehicle hit a tree and burst into flames.
Killed were Ruzecki, of Seminole; Keith MacCollom, 17, of Seminole; and Nathan S. Richardson, 15, of Pinellas Park. They were pronounced dead at the scene.
LaShawn Allan Smith, 16, of Largo, died while en route to Sun Coast Hospital.
Corey Kenneth LePore, 17, of Seminole, was taken to Bayfront Medical Center with serious injuries.
Only Ruzecki was wearing a seat belt. His passengers were ejected.
Goltl was treated and released, said Assistant Fire Chief George Bessler.
Ruzecki, Richardson, MacCollom and Lepore attend Seminole High School, said Andrea Zahn, a Pinellas County School District spokeswoman. Smith attended Largo High School, she said.
The teens' parents received next-of-kin notification at the accident scene, said Sgt. Steve Gaskins, FHP spokesman.
Hundreds of grieving students and parents gathered in the residential neighborhood following the crash.
"It's just a nightmare," said resident Mary Miscuk, whose daughter is a junior at the school. "This doesn't happen in Seminole. I'm looking at all these kids crying ... it's tragic."
When the crowd got too large, authorities opened up the school, less than a mile away. Grief counselors and several chaplains have been called in to help, Bessler said.
"We're placing a lot of resources on this incident," he said.
Students, teachers and parents returned Saturday, gathering in the student parking lot at Seminole High until about 2:30 p.m. in a kind of impromptu wake.
Kids hugged each other and cried as they remembered their friend and tried to make some sense of the accident.
"Crazy, you never saw this coming," said Shannon Brown, a Largo High School graduate who said he was one of LeShawn's best friends. "Not LeShawn."
Stephen Simon, a junior at Dunedin High School and former student at Largo High, said, "This is just a wakeup call for everybody."
Over at the baseball field, team members gathered to weep and remember their "brother," Nate.
"We're going to bounce back. We're never going to lose again," said Scott Robinson, a senior on the team. "He would want us to win and stay together as a team."
Even after mourners left the high school, kids clustered at the scene late into Saturday.
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Even the most dedicated shopper can be turned off by the commercialism of Christmas, so it must be maddening for this small, desert-worn woman – used to working with people who have nothing – to be among so much excess in the middle of Sydney.
Former Armidale nurse Valerie Browning first volunteered to work in Ethiopia in1973 and for the last nearly three decades has lived with the nomadic Afar people, helping to provide them with the most basic of needs including ensuring that women have a safe birth and their child is born alive and healthy.
Valerie is back in Australia to visit her 24-year-old daughter Aisha, who is studying social work in Sydney, and to help promote the Barbara May Foundation, named in honour of her mother, which helps support her projects in Africa.
Its board includes two of her brothers, obstetrician David Browning and retired Anglican bishop of Canberra and Goulburn, George Browning.
After attending a board meeting in the CBD and wandering down the Pitt Street Mall, she is at once horrified and emboldened by the Christmas buying frenzy. If nothing else, it proves to her she is in the right place at the right time when she is working in the remote, blighted regions of the Horn of Africa.
"I've been over there for 26 years now, you've been having Christmas for 26 years and basically you're going to continue doing that," she said, with some resignation.
"I was in Woolies the other day and people were buying absolute trash. It glitters, it does something for one day, two days, three days and that's it. This is commercialism. In the end it's probably just a bunch of rubbish made in China. Here we go, we've just burnt up a bit more plastic and eaten a bit more palm oil and rubbishy stuff, so you've got all the problems you've got.
"You're overweight, people are depressed because they haven't got enough. They want more. It's crazy. I'm sorry for you – I've got my return ticket."
Similarly, when back in Australia, she has no patience for the arguments over whether to vaccinate or not when she lives in a region where children routinely die from measles.
"It's ridiculous. It's like, 'Is there climate change or is there not?' Let's get real. These are luxury debates you're talking about. It's nothing to do with reality. If measles is around, you have to vaccinate. If your child, your family is un-vaccinated, you are the cause of the outbreak and some other child may go blind, may die. It is a community responsibility to have the vaccination," she said.
"At the moment our organisation is vaccinating very, very hard. We just cleared three districts with vaccinations. And now we're in another three districts right now and we'll keep going because if you leave them, then measles is a killer, whooping cough is a killer."
At the age of 65, Valerie is feisty and no-nonsense. She and her husband Ishmael, an Afar clan elder, also have two adopted sons – Rammid, 14, and Nabil, two – the younger boy abandoned at their home when he was just eight days old.
She has brought Nabil on her visit to Australia and is not fazed by raising a toddler in her sixties.
"It's actually very good for you," she said. "It's very, very calming if you're under stress to sit on the floor and play with a two-year-old."
George Browning, now 73 and retired to Batemans Bay on the South Coast, marvels at the energy of his younger sister – "you wonder how on earth she maintains it. She says she can sleep on a barbed wire fence".
"It's very hard to imagine a person who has led a more self-less life than herself, having gone there almost by accident, on a dare from one of her friends," he said.
"One of the most impressive things is her holistic outlook. She went there as a nurse and that had flowed into education and environmental issues, because of the terrible drought they've been having. Her thought is there's no point in being healthy and educated if you can't feed yourself."
The foundation's namesake, their mother Barbara May, became an orphan at the age of three, her parents struck down within a fortnight of each other in the great flu epidemic in England. Barbara eventually became a mother to eight children, all of whom were instilled with the need to go out in the world and do good. The family migrated to Australia when Valerie was 10, her father an apple grower in Uralla, near Armidale in the New England region of NSW.
"Our parents gave us an extremely strong awareness of giving and sharing," Valerie said.
" And one of the most major things I learnt from my mother, actually, she said, 'The most important thing is not to be happy in your life but to be content', to be at home with the environment you're in.
"And you've got all these spoilt brats roaming the planet, saying, 'I've got to have this, I've got to have that'. I don't know how Mother Earth can continue like this, really seriously."
Valerie travelled back and forth between Australia and Africa after first answering a call for volunteers during the drought and famine of 1973 before settling there permanently in 1989 when she married Ishmael.
George Browning says theirs is a perfect union, despite their differences.
"Mostly we hear of the conflict between religions and yet Ishmael is a devout Muslim and Valerie is a devout Christian and they live a very harmonious and beautiful life together," he said.
The Barbara May Foundation funds the work in Africa of Valerie and her nephew, Dr Andrew Browning, a gynaecologist and obstetrician, to help prevent the hundreds of maternal deaths occurring there every day and the high incidence of birth injury, usually the devastating obstetric fistula, suffered sometimes after days of excruciating labour. A donation of just $50 can pay for a woman to have a caesarean birth in hospital. Valerie's hope next year is to also address the high rates of newborn deaths, which she concedes will be difficult.
"We're providing maternal care to highly, highly remote areas. Ninety-three per cent of Afar women do not receive maternal care unless we help them. They give birth in their home and unless we help them, they're totally ignored."
They have built maternity hospitals, trained community birth attendants to work in villages and created maternity waiting areas along main roads equipped to perform emergency deliveries, all with the assistance of the foundation.
"This is the generosity of incredible people who seriously don't want to see mothers die in childbirth, who seriously don't want to see women crippled because they've given birth to a baby and that's absolutely inspiring and wonderful," Valerie said.
But with failed rains this year in Ethiopia and millions of people requiring emergency food assistance, Valerie says it is also "very, very tragic and sad" that governments such as Australia's are cutting back on aid, particularly programs which attempt to make communities self-sufficient.
She was particularly scathing of a decision by the government not to continue funding the Australia Africa Community Engagement Scheme, a $90 million, five-year program with 10 Australian non-government organisations and their African partners delivered in 11 African countries.
The scheme attempted to reduce poverty in Africa through community-based projects in agriculture, water and sanitation and maternal and child health.
A report three years into the scheme said there was "strong evidence of increased agricultural productivity; increased resilience through diversified sources of income; and improved access to maternal and child health and water, sanitation and hygiene services".
Valerie said the scheme was due to wind up in mid-2016 but there had always been the hope it would be extended for another five years – a hope dashed by former prime minister Tony Abbott and his moves to reduce foreign aid.
"It's crazy and quite unacceptable that the Australian government should have reduced international aid, it's madness," she said.
"We've got one of the strongest economies on the planet and basically Australia has the lowest level of giving to the development of other countries."
A spokeswoman for DFAT confirmed the Australia Africa Community Engagement Scheme would end on June 30 next year.
"In the current budget environment, the Australian government is unable to commit to fund a second phase of AACES. The future focus of the aid program to Africa will be to continue to support human capacity building through the Australia Awards, enhance agricultural productivity, provide appropriate humanitarian assistance and improve gender equality," she said.
Valerie, meanwhile, will be returning to the desert soon and says she has fulfilled her mother's desire to be content, but never complacent. Her work is a privilege, she says.
"I'm very content where I am in Afar. I wouldn't be brave enough to come back and live in Australia. If I did it would have to be different to the way other people live and they wouldn't like it," she said.
"You say you've got democratic behaviour. You're under the rule of consumerism. It's holding you tightly. You're not free at all."
To make a donation to the Barbara May Foundation, go to barbaramayfoundation.com.


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The August 28 awards show will be Breezy's return after his 2007 debut, Weezy's new album celebration, and Adele's first-ever VMAs performance.
The first three performers of 2011 MTV Video Music Awards have just been announced. Chris Brown, Adele and Lil Wayne are confirmed to make live performances during the live telecast at Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on August 28.
This will be Breezy's return as a musical act at the prize-giving event since his 2007 VMAs debut. "I am excited about my nominations and to be back on the VMA stage," he said in a statement. "I have a special performance planned for my wonderful fans."
For Adele, the upcoming show will mark her first-ever performance at the VMAs. This also might be the year of her domination. The "Rolling in the Deep" hitmaker gets seven nominations including Best Female Video and the big prize of the night, Video of the Year.
Weezy has performed at the event for several times, but everytime he got booked, he's always excited. "Being a nominee and performer on the VMAs once again is an honor because everyone doesn't get that opportunity," he said. "Looking forward to performing on the show, and having 'Tha Carter IV' drop the same week!"
He actually has been rumored as one of the VMAs musical guests since mid-July. His manager Cortez "Tez" Bryant let it slip when assuring fans that there wouldn't be any pushback for his album. Tez said back then that the CD will be in stores "immediately after" his VMAs performance.
Like Adele, Weezy and Breezy receive more than one nomination this year, but it was Katy Perry who sweeps the most nods with nine nominations. She bumps into Adele in all of the seven nods the Brit gets, and faces off both Weezy and Breezy in Best Collaboration.
Fans can vote for winners in all categories by visiting vma.mtv.com beginning July 20. For Best New Artist, they can additionally determine the winner by texting BNA to 66333. Presenters and other performers are expected to be announced in the coming weeks.


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EndoClot for Preventing Rebleeding After Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR)
This study has been completed.
Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Zhiguo Liu, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: November 25, 2012
Last updated: November 27, 2012
Last verified: November 2012
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Endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) has been widely used as a diagnostic and treatment techniques of gastrointestinal small lesions. Postoperative rebleeding is one of the common complication following EMR. Several endoscopic hemostasis methods are currently in use. EndoClot® absorbable polysaccharide hemostat (PAPH) as a new hemostasis material was previously used for surgical hemostasis, but the therapeutic effect and safety in endoscopic application remains unknown. This study has been designed to observe the effect of rebleeding prevention after EMR.
|Endoscopic Hemostasis Colonic Polyps
|Device: EndoClot
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Retrospective
|Official Title:
|EndoClotTM Absorbable Polysaccharide Hemostat for Preventing Rbleeding After Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR)
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Colonic Polyps EndoscopyU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Zhiguo Liu, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Rebleeding rate after EMR procedure [ Time Frame: up to 1 week ]Rebleeding rate up to 1 week was obtained by clinical manifestations such as melana; decreased hemoglobin > 20g/L; hemodynamic instability or active bleeding from mucosal defect under endoscope.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Mucosal healing after EMR [ Time Frame: up to 1 month ]Colonoscopy will be repeated 1 month after EMR procedure to observe if application of Endoclot will delay the musosal healing.
- gastrointestinal tract obstruction [ Time Frame: up to 1 month ]Gastrointestinal tract obstruction has been previously reported as a possible adverse effect of hemostats, therefore it was observed in the current study.
|Study Start Date:
|April 2010
|Study Completion Date:
|March 2012
|Primary Completion Date:
|February 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Treatment group
Subjects in this group will received Endoclot treatment immediately after EMR.
Device: EndoClot
EndoClot hemostat is applied immediately after EMR to achieve hemostasis.
Control group
Subjects in this group will not received any hemostasis treatment after EMR.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 80 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Probability Sample
Study Population
Consecutive cases of colorectal mucosal and submucosal lesions with intented EMR treatment
Inclusion Criteria:
- consecutive cases of colorectal polyps and submucosal lesions with anticipated complete removal endoscopically by EMR.
Exclusion Criteria:
- severe cardiovascular diseases, liver and kidney dysfunction;
- platelet and coagulation dysfunction (PLT < 50*109/L, INR > 2);
- cases that have taken anticoagulant drugs or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs within 1 month before the procedure;
- cases unavailable for follow-up.
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01735786
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01735786
|China, Shanxi
|Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases
|Xi'an, Shanxi, China, 710032
Sponsors and Collaborators
Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases
|Principal Investigator:
|Zhiguo Liu, M.D.
|Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China 710032
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Keywords provided by Zhiguo Liu, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases:
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on August 18, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|Zhiguo Liu, Associated Professor, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01735786 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|November 25, 2012
|Last Updated:
|November 27, 2012
Keywords provided by Zhiguo Liu, Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases:
Endoscopic Hemostasis
EndoClot Absorbable Polysaccharide Hemostat
Colonic Polyps
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Colonic Polyps
Intestinal Polyps
Pathological Conditions, Anatomical
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We have taken over 20 overseas tours, and EastWest is our absolute #1 top favorite tour group. The itineraries offered are varied, educational and well thought out. And we love the small size groups. Bob and Pam are so much fun to travel with.
From a primitive village to bullet trains, the Japan tour offered visions of a neat and polite people, beautiful landscapes, fascinating historic buildings accompanied by delicious cuisine.
It is always a pleasure to travel with EastWest; great itineraries and great people. You learn a lot while meeting new friends.


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Tom Schwab, 71, of Elk River, died Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011.
According to his family, "Tom loved his John Deere, hot rod Corvette, playing cribbage, the KQRS morning show, his dog Toby, and cherished his time with his grandchildren."
His funeral service was Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011 at Dare's Funeral Home in Elk River. Interment was at Snake River Cemetery. Memorials are preferred to the family.
He is survived by wife, Edna; children, Pam (Mike) Knapp, Paul, Phil (Tina), Lisa (Dan) Hollom, Eric Graning, and Traci (Chad) Nunemacher; 12 grandchildren; siblings, Paula Yerxa and Sandy Anderson; and many nieces and nephews.
Mr. Schwab was preceded in death by parents, Paul and Severa; brother, Chuck; sister, Char; and grandson, Gunnar Knapp.
Tom Schwab, 71


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Building Relationships with Dr. Gary Chapman is a weekly 54-minute program offering life-changing insight and realistic advice rooted in the Word. Hosted by bestselling author Dr. Gary Chapman, Building Relationships with Dr. Gary Chapman is designed to provide fun and informative, practical help for your marriage. Chris and Andrea Fabry join Chapman each week to provide real-life interaction as they tackle some of the most challenging issues affecting relationships today. The broadcast is pre-recorded and plays well in nearly any day part.
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Gary Chapman is a well-known marriage counselor and director of marriage seminars. He has written more than 25 books including the #1 New York Times Best Seller, The Five Love Languages. Chapman's newest release, Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married, has joined the rankings as well. Others include: Anger, The Family You've Always Wanted, The Marriage You've Always Wanted, Desperate Marriages, God Speaks Your Love Language, Parenting Your Adult Child, and Hope for the Separated. With Dr. Jennifer Thomas, he co-authored The Five Languages of Apology. Dr. Chapman has over 35 years of experience in family counseling and has served as the senior associate pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C. for more than 35 years.
Chapman is a graduate of Moody Bible Institute and holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in anthropology from Wheaton College and Wake Forest University, respectively. He has received M.R.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and taken postgraduate work at the University of North Carolina and Duke University. Chapman and his wife, Karolyn, have been married for more than 45 years and reside in Winston-Salem, N.C. The Chapmans have two grown children, Shelley and Derek. For more information about Dr. Chapman and his ministry, please visit his website.


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By Liz Verley, Staff Writer
The Little Falls City Council authorized the execution of three labor agreements at Monday's meeting. The three contracts are for a two-year period.
Contracts that were approved were with the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees (MAPE); Law Enforcement Labor Services, Local 68 (LELS); and American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 2564 (AFSCME).
MAPE represents the supervisory employees of the city, LELS represents law enforcement and AFSCME represents the non-supervisory employees of the city not covered by the police or public works labor agreements.
All three former agreements had expired Dec. 31, 2011.
All three agreements will allow a 1.5 percent salary increase effective July 1, a 2 percent salary increase effective Jan. 1, 2013.
The MAPE agreement allows step increases in 2012 (effective Jan. 1 and for 2013 on the employees' anniversary dates. New hires after Jan. 1, 2013 will have the same insurance language as the current LELS and IUOE 49ers contracts. The motion to approve the MAPE agreement carried unanimously.
New employees will be paying more toward their share of the insurance then present employees do.
The AFSCME and LELS agreements had the same salary, step and insurance language as MAPE but the motions to approve those two contracts passed on a 7 – 1 vote with Councilman Brian Paul Crowder voting no.
Mayor Cathy VanRisseghem said, "Our employees have lived with a hard freeze for three years. We could not expect them to do that forever. I think this was a fair agreement."
Crowder said, after the meeting had adjourned, it was very hard to justify those increases when so many constituents were unemployed or laid off.
Little Falls City Council Briefs
In other business Monday, the Little Falls City Council:
• Accepted the Animal Control, Central Minnesota Access, Heritage Preservation Commission, Housing and Redevelopment Authority and Public Works Department reports;
Authorized the hiring of Traut Wells, St. Cloud, to include the rehabilitation and repairs for Well 7, at a cost not to exceed $38,000. The cost of the project will be charged to the Water Improvement Fund;
• Adopted a resolution expressing its approval and support for the development of the Mississippi River Trail United States Bike Route 45. The resolution also authorizes the public works director to represent the city in ongoing collaborative discussions and in matters of general nature regarding the operation and location of the Mississippi River trail within its boundaries and jurisdiction;
• Called for public hearing on the final assessment roll for the Third Avenue Southeast improvement project. The hearing will be held Sept. 17 at 7:30 p. m. in the council chambers at city hall; and • Adopted a resolution authorizing the execution of a grant agreement and accepting grant funds from the Laura Jane Musser Fund. Two grants of $1,000 each will go to the Little Falls Police Department and the Youth Task Force.


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Vivendi Universal Games announced today that a video game is in development based on 20th Century Fox's upcoming family film, Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
The animation comedy genre "Ice Age 2: The Meltdown" has been slated to hit theaters on March 31st, 2006. Meanwhile, a video game based on the 20th Century Fox's upcoming film is on work and scheduled for a spring 2006 release date.
Adding that information, Vivendi Universal announced Dec 22 that "Ice Age 2: The Meltdown" video game will be available in stores for the PlayStation�2 computer entertainment system, Xbox video game system from Microsoft, Nintendo GameCube(TM), Nintendo DS(TM), Game Boy� Advance and PC.
The video game set reportedly will carry an MSRP of $19.99 for PC, $29.99 for Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance and $39.99 for console products. Go and get it.


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A CONMAN repeatedly applied for payday loans by giving false details in a £1,000 scam, Burnley magistrates heard.
Colin Ormerod, 33, who is said to have learning difficulties and is on benefits, got cash, or tried to get it, by using a string of different names on forms online.
He also tried to get Littlewoods Catalogues but never ordered anything as he didn't get his hands on any.
Ormerod, a former drug addict, made about six loan applications, some which were successful and others not.
His trail of dishonesty was uncovered after he made a false application to Provident for a £400 loan.
A loan officer went round to his home and Ormerod was arrested over an allegation of false imprisonment of the officer.
He had not been charged over the accusation. He had admitted the loan charge and was charged on November 2.
Police had wanted to speak to him about other possible offences and when he was interviewed a second time he owned up to making similar applications on a number of previous occasions, using a variety of different names. He also admitted trying to get catalogues. Ormerod had been locked up for six weeks over the Provident loan application and when he was released he was questioned by the police again.
Ormerod, from Venice Avenue, Burnley, admitted two counts of fraud by false representation, to the total of £600, on July 28 and August 12, last year.
He asked for 10 offences, about six of them involving catalogues and the others loans, to be considered. Some of the offences date back to 2008.
Ormerod was given a four-week curfew, seven days a week, between 9pm and 7am. He must pay £250 compensation but the Bench did not order any costs.
Mark Williams, for Ormerod, said he had been in "a mess with drugs" and had asked to be sent to custody.
Since being released, he had not returned to the misuse of drugs.


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PlayBook 4G launch date and price leaked
0. phoneArena posted on 23 Jul 2012, 18:47
The 4G LTE BlackBerry PlayBook popped up on our radar again earlier this month when it became certified for mobile networks by PTCRB after being the victim of several delays since its 2011 CTIA debut...
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
1. Twitch016 (Posts: 23; Member since: 26 Jan 2012)
If they gave me one for free with an unlimited contract, you'd still find me using my Nexus 7. Sorry, RIM. This ship has sailed.
2. bubbadoes (Posts: 1225; Member since: 03 May 2012)
based on the last playbook. i would say 199 with a 50 dollar rebate and one month of free apps...and thats just to stay competitive
3. bubbadoes (Posts: 1225; Member since: 03 May 2012)
want survive
4. downphoenix (Posts: 3165; Member since: 19 Jun 2010)
Retail, 400$ tops, and that's really pushing it (Assuming they sell the 32GB retail for $300 + 100 markup for LTE) and subsidized shouldnt be more than 150 or so.
6. nnaatthhaannx2 (Posts: 820; Member since: 19 Oct 2011)
It's probably going to go back to $199 like the original one did.
5. nnaatthhaannx2 (Posts: 820; Member since: 19 Oct 2011)
It would be good..... if it was released... 4 years ago :)
7. wendygarett (unregistered)
The one and only tablets left who support flash... LOL


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Washington, DC - On June 28, 2010, U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director John Berry and agency representatives from the Department of the Army, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and the Defense Commissary Agency will recognize and confirm the first graduates of OPM's Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) Certificate Program. Established in 2008, LEAD is a training program that provides the critical leadership skills needed for a Federal career - from Team Lead to Executive.
Associate Director of Human Resources Solutions, Kay Ely, also will announce the updated LEAD curriculum for FY 2011.
Berry has committed to "recruit, retain and honor a world-class workforce" and this ceremony will acknowledge the work OPM has done to develop a premier and competitive training program for Federal leaders that is key to retaining highly valued talent.
OPM recognizes that it must empower a new generation of talent to replace today's retiring leaders. This is a challenging yet exciting time to work in the Federal government, as global awareness, technological advances and workplace diversity combine to shape the potential for far-reaching social impact.
Who: U.S. Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry
Department of DefensePhysical Scientist Dr. Stewart Bennie
Department of the Defense (U.S. Army) Knowledge Management Officer Jon Boren
Department of Homeland SecurityProgram Manager Vincent Dumas
Defense Commissary AgencyBusiness Systems Manager Debbie Emory
Department of Defense Deputy Chief of Science Technology Policy Walter Kennedy
Department of Homeland Security Chief Information Officer Harry McDavid
Department of Defense (U.S. Army) Deputy Chief of Commander's Planning Group Edward Melton, III
What: Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) Certificate Program Commencement Ceremony
When: Monday, June 28, 2010
Program: 1:00PM
Interviews: Immediately following
Where: U.S. Office of Personnel Management
Pendleton Room
1900 E Street NW Washington, DC 20415
Media wishing to attend the event should contact OPM's Communications and Public Liaison office at 202-606-2402.
Our mission is to Recruit, Retain and Honor a World-Class Workforce to Serve the American People. OPM supports U.S. agencies with personnel services and policy leadership including staffing tools, guidance on labor-management relations and programs to improve work force performance.