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Children from the Barack Obama Elementary School do as many jumping jacks as they can in a one-minute period on Tuesday.
First Lady Michelle Obama was trying to break the Guinness Book of World Records for the most people doing jumping jacks in
a 24-hour period. Thousands of schools across the U.S. brought groups of children together to help Mrs. Obama achieve this
World Record as part of her “Let’s Move” initiative.
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Hip-hop mogul in training Pharrell Williams has already successfully forayed from super-producer/rapper into fashion. Now he’s taking his brand game to the next level with his blended adult beverage Qream. Williams brought his delicious brainchild to St. Louis for a special launch party Wednesday night and was happy to pose with guests like the lovely Danielle Hunter.
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Richard Mark, senior vice president of Customer Operations at Ameren Missouri, congratulates Ameren Missouri Scholarship Foundation Bravo Scholars Jacob Winslow, Nermina Mujkanovic and Jennifer Carrillo.
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ESPN’s Chris Singleton is a true sports rarity, an African American who reports on baseball professionally. He was doing a good job with the game of the week on radio only to be moved to the studio for first-year broadcaster Bobby Valentine, the former manager. Go figure.
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Ritenour linemen Kyle Kriz (76) makes a the block on the Spartans Jordan Hrobowski (9) to free running back Danny Askew (5) during Saturday’s game at Hazelwood East. The Huskies went on to defeat the Spartans 16-8.
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Hazelwood West Middle School sixth-grade students use calculators after school in the sixth-grade Homework Center. This is the second year the school has offered a place for students who need to study for tests, work on research projects or just get caught up on daily homework. This year, each grade level has its own Homework Center.
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John A. Rich, M.D., M.P.H., professor and chair of Health Management and Policy at Drexel University School of Public Health.
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LA Williams played a range of characters in the Gitana production of Inalienable Rights is an original piece by Lee Patton Chiles.
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In Reel Steel, which opened in theatres on Friday, Anthony Mackie plays an underground fight promoter living in a time where robots have replaced humans in the ring.
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Speaker of the House Steve Tilley (R – Perryville) may have been the biggest political loser in the stymied special session, where the Republican leadership failed to pass an economic development bill.
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Valerie Patton, executive director of the St. Louis Business Diversity Initiative, will receive the St. Louis American Foundation’s 2011 Non-Profit Executive of the Year Nov. 9.
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The Airport Minority Advisory Council (AMAC) recently announced Shelby Scales as its new executive director. She recently spoke to the Diversity Committee of the Associated General Contractors of St. Louis. Scales recently visited St. Louis because it is the host city for the 28th Annual Airport Business Diversity Conference to be held in June 2012.
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A choir member of Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church was filled with the spirit last Sunday during the 10:30 a.m. service led by Senior Pastor Michael Jones.
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Rev. Dr. Michael Jones, senior pastor of Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church, led his congregation in worship last Sunday. Its 2,500-seat sanctuary on Dr. Martin Luther King Drive was filled to capacity for the 10:30 a.m. service.
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“We were looking for solutions to ‘brain drain,’ retention of talent and advancement of talent.” – Valerie Patton, St. Louis Business Diversity Initiative
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Nnenna Okore’s exhibition Shokoloko is up at Craft Alliance’s Gallery in the Delmar Loop until Oct. 23.
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Interns for diabetes research Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation 2011 summer interns Alex Lombardi, Jordan Cooley and Ashley Colquitt get ready to welcome 200 guests at the Corporate Walk kick-off luncheon. This year’s JDRF Walk To Cure Diabetes was held Sunday, October 2.
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Community College Board Trustee Hattie Jackson, the new Chancellor of the St. Louis Commuity College Dr. Myrtle Dorsey and Bishop Lawrence M. Wooten enjoying the reception hosted by the Ecumenical Leadership Council.
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