Johnny Depp To Receive MTV Generation Award At MTV Movie Awards

The actor will also receive a special serenade from the Black Keys during the big show, which air live this Sunday at 9 p.m. ET/PT
By James Montgomery


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For nearly four decades now, Johnny Depp has been the definition of Hollywood cool, bringing his own iconic style to life on the small screen (in "21 Jump Street), in cult faves like "Ed Wood" and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," and in big-screen smashes like "Sleepy Hollow," "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and, of course, the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise.

So, in recognition of his achievements — and all that classic cool — Depp will be honored with the MTV Generation award at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards, broadcasting live on Sunday, June 3 at 9 p.m. ET/PT from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California.

And as part of the celebration, dynamic duo the Black Keys will perform a special rendition of their hit "Gold on the Ceiling" in Depp's honor.

The MTV Generation Award is the Movie Awards' highest honor, acknowledging an actor who can be counted on to engage the MTV audience with everything he or she does ... previous recipients include Reese Witherspoon, Sandra Bullock, Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler, Mike Myers, Tom Cruise and Jim Carrey.

Depp's honor is just the latest addition to what is shaping up to be a very big show indeed. "Bridesmaids" and "The Hunger Games" enter the Movie Awards as the night's most-nominated films, comedian Russell Brand will serve as host, the Black Keys, Wiz Khalifa, Fun. and Martin Solveig are set to perform ... and as if all of that weren't enough, fans will also get an exclusive look at footage from this summer's most anticipated film, "The Dark Knight Rises."

Fans can vote for their favorites in all categories through MovieAwards.MTV.com, and make sure to tune in this Sunday at 9 p.m. ET/PT, when the MTV Movie Awards air live from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California ... don't miss it.

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AP 'napalm girl' photo from Vietnam War turns 40

FILE - In this June 8, 1972 file photo, crying children, including 9-year-old Kim Phuc, center, run down Route 1 near Trang Bang, Vietnam after an aerial napalm attack on suspected Viet Cong hiding places as South Vietnamese forces from the 25th Division walk behind them. A South Vietnamese plane accidentally dropped its flaming napalm on South Vietnamese troops and civilians. From left, the children are Phan Thanh Tam, younger brother of Kim Phuc, who lost an eye, Phan Thanh Phouc, youngest brother of Kim Phuc, Kim Phuc, and Kim's cousins Ho Van Bon, and Ho Thi Ting. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

FILE - In this June 8, 1972 file photo, crying children, including 9-year-old Kim Phuc, center, run down Route 1 near Trang Bang, Vietnam after an aerial napalm attack on suspected Viet Cong hiding places as South Vietnamese forces from the 25th Division walk behind them. A South Vietnamese plane accidentally dropped its flaming napalm on South Vietnamese troops and civilians. From left, the children are Phan Thanh Tam, younger brother of Kim Phuc, who lost an eye, Phan Thanh Phouc, youngest brother of Kim Phuc, Kim Phuc, and Kim's cousins Ho Van Bon, and Ho Thi Ting. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

FILE - In this May 25, 1997 file photo, Phan Thi Kim Phuc plays with her son, Thomas Huy Hoang, 3, at a friend's home in Toronto. As a terrified nine-year-old, Phuc was photographed running down a South Vietnamese road after a June 8, 1972 napalm attack. Now a permanent resident in Canada, the 33-year-old says "even though I suffered physically and emotionally, I'm happy, because I'm living without hatred." (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

FILE - In this June 8, 1992 file photo, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, left, watches television as her husband, Bui Huy Toan, plays with their son Thomas, 3, in their apartment in Toronto. Phuc, who was the main subject in Associated Press photographer Nick Ut's iconic image of the aftermath of a June 8, 1972 napalm attack in Vietnam, was granted political asylum in Canada in 1992. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

FILE - In this Aug. 17, 1989 file photo, Phan Thi Kim Phuc embraces Associated Press staff photographer Nick Ut during a reunion in Havana, Cuba. It only took a second for Ut to snap the iconic black-and-white image of her after a napalm attack in 1972. It communicated the horrors of the Vietnam War in a way words could never describe, helping to end one of America's darkest eras. But beneath the photo lies a lesser-known story. It's the tale of a dying child brought together by chance with a young photographer. A moment captured in the chaos of war that would serve as both her savior and her curse on a journey to understand life's plan for her. (AP Photo/Jim Caccavo)

FILE - In this May 25, 1997 file photo, Phan Thi Kim Phuc holds her son Thomas, 3, in their apartment in Toronto. Her husband, Bui Huy Toan is at left. Kim Phuc's left arm shows evidence of the burns she suffered on June 8, 1972, when her village in Vietnam was hit by napalm bombs dropped by South Vietnamese warplanes acting on U.S. orders. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

(AP) ? In the picture, the girl will always be 9 years old and wailing "Too hot! Too hot!" as she runs down the road away from her burning Vietnamese village.

She will always be naked after blobs of sticky napalm melted through her clothes and layers of skin like jellied lava.

She will always be a victim without a name.

It only took a second for Associated Press photographer Huynh Cong "Nick" Ut to snap the iconic black-and-white image 40 years ago. It communicated the horrors of the Vietnam War in a way words could never describe, helping to end one of the most divisive wars in American history.

But beneath the photo lies a lesser-known story. It's the tale of a dying child brought together by chance with a young photographer. A moment captured in the chaos of war that would serve as both her savior and her curse on a journey to understand life's plan for her.

"I really wanted to escape from that little girl," says Kim Phuc, now 49. "But it seems to me that the picture didn't let me go."

____

It was June 8, 1972, when Phuc heard the soldier's scream: "We have to run out of this place! They will bomb here, and we will be dead!"

Seconds later, she saw the tails of yellow and purple smoke bombs curling around the Cao Dai temple where her family had sheltered for three days, as north and south Vietnamese forces fought for control of their village.

The little girl heard a roar overhead and twisted her neck to look up. As the South Vietnamese Skyraider plane grew fatter and louder, it swooped down toward her, dropping canisters like tumbling eggs flipping end over end.

"Ba-boom! Ba-boom!"

The ground rocked. Then the heat of a hundred furnaces exploded as orange flames spit in all directions.

Fire danced up Phuc's left arm. The threads of her cotton clothes evaporated on contact. Trees became angry torches. Searing pain bit through skin and muscle.

"I will be ugly, and I'm not normal anymore," she thought, as her right hand brushed furiously across her blistering arm. "People will see me in a different way."

In shock, she sprinted down Highway 1 behind her older brother. She didn't see the foreign journalists gathered as she ran toward them, screaming.

Then, she lost consciousness.

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Ut, the 21-year-old Vietnamese photographer who took the picture, drove Phuc to a small hospital. There, he was told the child was too far gone to help. But he flashed his American press badge, demanded that doctors treat the girl and left assured that she would not be forgotten.

"I cried when I saw her running," said Ut, whose older brother was killed on assignment with the AP in the southern Mekong Delta. "If I don't help her ? if something happened and she died ? I think I'd kill myself after that."

Back at the office in what was then U.S.-backed Saigon, he developed his film. When the image of the naked little girl emerged, everyone feared it would be rejected because of the news agency's strict policy against nudity.

But veteran Vietnam photo editor Horst Faas took one look and knew it was a shot made to break the rules. He argued the photo's news value far outweighed any other concerns, and he won.

A couple of days after the image shocked the world, another journalist found out the little girl had somehow survived the attack. Christopher Wain, a correspondent for the British Independent Television Network who had given Phuc water from his canteen and drizzled it down her burning back at the scene, fought to have her transferred to the American-run Barsky unit. It was the only facility in Saigon equipped to deal with her severe injuries.

"I had no idea where I was or what happened to me," she said. "I woke up and I was in the hospital with so much pain, and then the nurses were around me. I woke up with a terrible fear."

Thirty percent of Phuc's tiny body was scorched raw by third-degree burns, though her face somehow remained untouched. Over time, her melted flesh began to heal.

"Every morning at 8 o'clock, the nurses put me in the burn bath to cut all my dead skin off," she said. "I just cried and when I could not stand it any longer, I just passed out."

After multiple skin grafts and surgeries, Phuc was finally allowed to leave, 13 months after the bombing. She had seen Ut's photo, which by then had won the Pulitzer Prize, but she was still unaware of its reach and power.

She just wanted to go home and be a child again.

___

For a while, life did go somewhat back to normal. The photo was famous, but Phuc largely remained unknown except to those living in her tiny village near the Cambodian border. Ut and a few other journalists sometimes visited her, but that stopped after northern communist forces seized control of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975, ending the war.

Life under the new regime became tough. Medical treatment and painkillers were expensive and hard to find for the teenager, who still suffered extreme headaches and pain.

She worked hard and was accepted into medical school to pursue her dream of becoming a doctor. But all that ended once the new communist leaders realized the propaganda value of the 'napalm girl' in the photo.

She was forced to quit college and return to her home province, where she was trotted out to meet foreign journalists. The visits were monitored and controlled, her words scripted. She smiled and played her role, but the rage inside began to build and consume her.

"I wanted to escape that picture," she said. "I got burned by napalm, and I became a victim of war ... but growing up then, I became another kind of victim."

She turned to Cao Dai, her Vietnamese religion, for answers. But they didn't come.

"My heart was exactly like a black coffee cup," she said. "I wished I died in that attack with my cousin, with my south Vietnamese soldiers. I wish I died at that time so I won't suffer like that anymore ... it was so hard for me to carry all that burden with that hatred, with that anger and bitterness."

One day, while visiting a library, Phuc found a Bible. For the first time, she started believing her life had a plan.

Then suddenly, once again, the photo that had given her unwanted fame brought opportunity.

She traveled to West Germany in 1982 for medical care with the help of a foreign journalist. Later, Vietnam's prime minister, also touched by her story, made arrangements for her to study in Cuba.

She was finally free from the minders and reporters hounding her at home, but her life was far from normal. Ut, then working at the AP in Los Angeles, traveled to meet her in 1989, but they never had a moment alone. There was no way for him to know she desperately wanted his help again.

"I knew in my dream that one day Uncle Ut could help me to have freedom," said Phuc, referring to him by an affectionate Vietnamese term. "But I was in Cuba. I was really disappointed because I couldn't contact with him. I couldn't do anything."

___

While at school, Phuc met a young Vietnamese man. She had never believed anyone would ever want her because of the ugly patchwork of scars that banded across her back and pitted her arm, but Bui Huy Toan seemed to love her more because of them.

The two decided to marry in 1992 and honeymoon in Moscow. On the flight back to Cuba, the newlyweds defected during a refueling stop in Canada. She was free.

Phuc contacted Ut to share the news, and he encouraged her to tell her story to the world. But she was done giving interviews and posing for photos.

"I have a husband and a new life and want to be normal like everyone else," she said.

The media eventually found Phuc living near Toronto, and she decided she needed to take control of her story. A book was written in 1999 and a documentary came out, at last the way she wanted it told. She was asked to become a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador to help victims of war. She and Ut have since reunited many times to tell their story, even traveling to London to meet the Queen.

"Today, I'm so happy I helped Kim," said Ut, who still works for AP and recently returned to Trang Bang village. "I call her my daughter."

After four decades, Phuc, now a mother of two sons, can finally look at the picture of herself running naked and understand why it remains so powerful. It had saved her, tested her and ultimately freed her.

"Most of the people, they know my picture but there's very few that know about my life," she said. "I'm so thankful that ... I can accept the picture as a powerful gift. Then it is my choice. Then I can work with it for peace."

___

Online:

http://www.kimfoundation.com

___

Follow Margie Mason at http://www.twitter.com/margiemasonap

Associated Press

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Record-setting N.M. fire spreading in all directions

RESERVE, N.M. (AP) ? A massive wildfire in the New Mexico wilderness that already is the largest in state history spread in all directions Thursday, and experts say it's likely a preview of things to come as states across the West contend with a dangerous recipe of wind, low humidity and tinder-dry fuels.

The erratic Gila National Forest blaze grew overnight to more than 190,000 acres, or nearly 300 square miles, as it raced across the area's steep, ponderosa pine-covered hills and through its rugged canyons.

The 2-week-old Gila forest fire is the largest wildfire burning in the country.

Gov. Susana Martinez viewed the fire from a New Mexico National Guard helicopter Thursday afternoon and saw the thick smoke among some of the steep canyons that are inaccessible to firefighters.

Along the fire's northern edge, Martinez spotted crews doing burnout operations designed to slow the erratic blaze, which has surpassed the Los Conchas fire as the state's largest ever. That fire charred 156,593 acres last year and threatened the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the nation's premier nuclear facility.

From the air, Martinez pointed to the terrain as being "impossible" in some areas.

"It seems daunting to us because it's now 190,000 acres," she told reporters. "It's going to keep going up. Be prepared for that."

More than 1,200 firefighters are at the massive blaze near the Arizona border. It has has destroyed a dozen cabins and eight outbuildings, fire information officer Iris Estes said.

Experts say persistent drought, climate change and shifts in land use and firefighting strategies mean other western states likely will see similar giant fires this season.

"We've been in a long drought cycle for the last 20 years, and conditions now are great for these type of fires," said Steve Pyne, author of "Tending Fire: Coping with America's Wildland Fires" and a life science professor at Arizona State University. "Everything is in line."

Agencies in New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona are bracing for the worst. Many counties have established emergency telephone and email notification systems to warn of wildfires, and most states have enlisted crews from other jurisdictions to be ready when the big ones come.

"It's highly likely that these fires are going to get so big that states are going to need outside resources to fight them," said Jeremy Sullens, a wildland fire analyst at the National Interagency Fire Center.

According to the National Weather Service, a dry climate is expected to prolong drought conditions across the Great Basin and central Rockies during the fire season. Large portions of Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico will remain under severe drought conditions.

"We're transitioning from La Nina to El Nino, so we have no guidance to what's going to happen, like if we will get more rain or less rain," said Ed Polasko, a weather service meteorologist.

It's unclear what type of relief will come from the monsoon, which starts in mid-July, since experts say it's difficult to predict what areas in the West will benefit from the storms, Sullens said.

A lack of moisture means fewer fuels to burn in some areas, but unburned vegetation elsewhere could pose a problem since states received no sustained snow or rain this winter and spring.

That's what happened in New Mexico's Gila Wilderness, where a lack of snow failed to push down grass, which worsened the fire danger, Sullens said.

Typically, fires in the area don't cross the middle fork of the Gila River, said Danny Montoya, a member of the fire's incident command team.

"This year, it did get across," Montoya said. "We're getting humidity levels during the day about 2 to 3 percent. Normally, during summer you'd see 5 to 12 percent."

Officials closed the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument on Thursday due to smoke generated from the fire. The National Park Service said the closure would remain in effect until conditions improve.

Montoya said he wouldn't be surprised if smoke from the fire remained until the monsoon since the fire is burning in rough areas and it's difficult for crews to fight it head-on.

Estes said the blaze is 5 percent contained.

"We're continuing with burnout operations and we've been helped with a slight rise in humidity and decreased winds," she said.

Another reason states in the West will see more massive fires this season is because, coupled with drought and dry climate, crews have experienced changes in firefighting strategies and agencies have changed some policies in fighting wildfires in isolated areas, Pyne said.

"In the last 20 years or so, agencies have generally been reluctant to put firefighters at risk in remote areas," Pyne said. "It wasn't like that decades ago."

Instead, he said agencies have focused attention on burnout operations until conditions are safe to begin containment.

Not that those practices and the large fires are bad things, Pyne said. For example, he said the Gila Wilderness has been a target for controlled burns.

"So maybe," Pyne said, "this is how it's supposed to happen."

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Contreras reported from Albuquerque. Contact Susan Montoya at http://www.twitter.com/susanmbryanNM and Russell Contreras at http://twitter.com/russcontreras .

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The folks at Gizmodo managed to snag a screenshot of the misspelling in Mitt Romney's iPhone app before a correction was made.

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The With Mitt iPhone app had just barely launched on Tuesday and it already had a popular Twitter hashtag. Mitt Romney's campaign staff would be ridiculously happy about these details?? if only it weren't for a pesky little typo.

With Mitt?is a simple app that lets you customize photos with Romney-themed slogans. You're basically supposed to show your support for the candidate by pasting things like "I'm a mom for Mitt" and "Obama isn't working" over your iPhone snapshots.

But as the folks at Gizmodo report, there was an unfortunate flaw with one of the slogans: America was spelled "Amercia."

Uh oh.

It didn't take the Romney campaign staff long to send?"Version 1.0.1" of the app???which is described as having some "bug fixes"?? to Apple, but the damage was already done. Twitter users went nuts, a new Tumblr blog was created, and plenty of media ridicule followed.

All of this because some poor fool somewhere forgot to spellcheck. Man, I better get this articel over to a copyeditor before a typo of mine brings down the Internet.

Want more tech news, silly puns, or amusing links? You'll get plenty of all three if you keep up with Rosa Golijan, the writer of this post, by following her on?Twitter, subscribing to her?Facebook?posts, or circling her?on?Google+.

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With the GOP nomination now secured, Mitt Romney appeared at a Las Vegas fundraiser Tuesday evening alongside controversial real estate mogul Donald Trump, who renewed questions about President Obama's U.S. citizenship. NBC's Peter Alexander reports.

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Keeping your financial affiars private with good estate planning

Nothing exposes your wealth to the world as quickly as the court system as evident by recent celebrity divorces. While you can?t necessarily protect yourself from people filing lawsuits, you can avoid the most public court of them all, Probate. But even having a Trust will not necessarily keep all private and there is more to it.

?There are two major items to protect when it comes to public exposure, your wealth and your potential incapacity,? according to estate planning attorney Gamble Parks of Fell, Marking, Abkin, Montgomery, Granet & Raney, LLP. The name of the game is ?avoiding conservatorship and probate which can be accomplished with properly effective Powers of Attorney (POA) and health care? directives to go along with a Trust,? Parks goes on to say.

People generally start their planning with a Will, but since that does not protect privacy from the court system, they usually implement a Trust. While the Trust avoids the probate court you can also accomplish that by holding ownership in assets under ?right of survivorship? title or pay on death accounts. So how does one recognize potential issues ahead of time and where to plan?

Out of Date Power of Attorney: People often times implement estate planning documents as they head into retirement and then forget about them. As people age, so do their named Trustees and power of attorneys for such things as health care and financial decisions. If the people named in the documents are no longer alive, unwilling or unable to step in when needed, court intervention may be required.

?It is a given that documents should refreshed to reflect intentions and the responsible parties to follow, but outlining triggering events to determine capacity is paramount,? according to Parks. From time to time we see situations where the estate is ?stuck.? This usually occurs when a person is no longer capable of handling their affairs and while it is clear to family, friends and advisors, the person may see things differently. If they are unwilling to relinquish control, sometimes it comes down to a court order which is just something all want to avoid.

Beneficiaries: If someone or entity is a named beneficiary in a Trust, even for a small amount, they are entitled to a copy of the document and the details of the estate. While your privacy may be protected from public view that does not mean that others are not privy to your entire financial makeup. ?If someone wants to name a charity as a beneficiary of the estate and keep their assets private, a great way to do that is via their IRA accounts,? according to Parks. While they are privy to only this one account, the charity also avoids the income taxes associated with IRA.

There are other accounts and structures that avoid probate and that can be singled out from the rest of the estate. These are generally in the form of annuity contracts, life insurance policies and pay on death (POD) accounts, all passing by beneficiary elections tied to those accounts.

Improperly Titled Assets: Getting a Trust drafted is one thing, but making sure it is properly funded is another. During the refinance process is has been common for banks to request the property be removed from a Trust (in essence they don?t want to deal with ownership other than you). ?Some people forget to put the property back in the Trust after the financing takes place,? according to Gamble Parks.

The key to keeping your financial affairs private really resides with how your own your assets, who is in charge after you are no longer able and who has the legal access to your information either by choice or by requirement. Gamble Parks reminds us that ?many issues are avoided by having current documents that are properly funded and clearly outline triggering events that name people you trust to carry out your wishes.?

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Authors? Note: Seth Streeter, MS, CFP? and Brad Stark, MS, CFP? are Co-Founders of Mission Wealth Management, LLC (MWM), a Registered Investment Advisor. Seth has been recognized by Worth magazine as one of the nation?s top wealth advisors and Brad is listed in the top 100 Independent B/D Advisors . Brad is also an adjunct professor of finance for California State University CI Campus, MVS School of Business and Economics. The information contained in this article is general in nature and should not be construed as comprehensive financial, tax, or legal advice. As with any financial or legal matter, consult your qualified securities, tax, or legal representative before taking action. Advisory services offered through MWM. Securities offered through National Planning Corporation, Member FINRA/SIPC. NPC and MWM are separate and unrelated entities. Certain statements contained within may be forward-looking statements, including but not limited to, statements that are predictions of or indicate future events, trends, plans or objectives. Undue reliance should not be placed on such statements because, by their nature, they are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties; all statements are subject to change without notice. Also, historical performance cannot predict future results. The authors can be reached at info@missionwealth.com.

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Business accounting can improve your companys bottom line

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Business accounting can boost your companys bottom line If you think that the uses of business accounting are limited to final year figures and the means to complete and submit your tax return to HMRC, then its time you woke up and paid attention to the real reason you should be staying on top of this essential business tool. For this reason, accountants are usually much more than just walking calculators ? they are really the best business advisors you can get, because they understand exactly whats going on behind the scenes. Business advisors are an essential part of your team It doesnt matter whether you use business advisors via an accountancy company or a member of your own staff, but either way, you need one if you want to manage your business to the best of your ability. By managing your accounts properly and keeping them up to date, they can provide you with the vital knowledge required to know exactly how your business is performing. If youre not up to date with the numbers, how can you be sure that youre doing ok? A successful business is one thats run on the figures ? these are your true performance indicators, the facts that tell you whether youre making a profit, struggling to stay afloat, or just bumbling along. By collating the date into reports, the management team can be kept in the financial loop and use the information provided to work out the best next step. Yearly, quarterly or monthly reports provide guidance and essential information that will help you in many additional ways, rather than just satisfying HMRC. Meeting targets and tightening belts Effective business accounting leaves no margin for error ? theres no avoiding the hard facts in front of your face. If youre not meeting your targets, the figures will show you this, as well as highlighting areas that could be creating the problems. By creating specific sections for different aspects of your business, you can work out where youre losing revenue or failing to perform. This obviously also includes information that will show what investments are presenting a good return and which of your outlays are being a drain on your resources instead of adding value to your organisation. The fact that your accounts will help you to keep on top of your profits and losses is only one small part of their benefits; the culmination of all of the data that they provide will give you the means to develop better strategies and make sure that you?re bringing in the money that you should.

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