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INDONESIAN soldiers marching 12 abreast had just opened fire on a crowd of East Timorese mourners when one soldier grabbed reporter Amy Goodman, threw her to the ground, and began kicking her and beating her with his rifle. Ten soldiers then surrounded Ms. Goodman and her colleague in firing-squad fashion.
''I had my passport; they kicked me in the stomach. I doubled over, but each time I could grab my breath I said, 'We're from America, we're from America!' '' says Goodman, a reporter for WBAI radio in New York.
Goodman and her colleague were let go and caught a plane out that afternoon. They brought with them first-hand accounts of the 1991 massacre of more than 250 civilians in East Timor.
Scores of reporters around the world are harassed and beaten, sometimes even assassinated, simply for doing their jobs. Local reporters are most often the targets, but foreign journalists are now more vulnerable than ever before.
''If there ever was a sense that journalists should be given some sort of immunity, it is long gone,'' says Terry Anderson, who adds that it was rare for journalists to be targets when he was snatched from his car in suburban Beirut in 1985. He was held for seven years by Islamic fundamentalists.
Mr. Anderson is now a board member of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. Since January 1994, CPJ has confirmed that 110 reporters were killed on dangerous assignments or assassinated because of their work. Another 22 deaths are under investigation.
In the Bosnian conflict alone, CPJ has confirmed 41 journalist killed because of their profession since 1991. Another 12 deaths are still being investigated.
''Bosnia has been ... the most dangerous foreign conflict for journalists since Vietnam,'' says Bill Orme, CPJ's executive director. ''That is doubly remarkable given its geographic scale, the smaller number of combatants, and that it's in the heart of Europe.''
Monitor correspondent David Rohde's arrest by Bosnian Serbs Oct. 29 is typical of a growing trend in which foreign correspondents become political pawns. Mr. Rohde was released and all charges against him were dropped on Wednesday.
Rohde was the first to verify the massacre of Muslim civilians by Bosnian Serbs after the fall of the Srebrenica ''safe area'' in July. He was also the first to interview Muslim survivors of the massacre.
''I don't know if the Bosnian Serbs have articulated a larger design yet,'' says Nicholas Daniloff, who was arrested on false espionage charges in Moscow in 1986 and detained for almost two weeks. ''This may simply be a case of sweet revenge against David Rohde.''
While local journalists in dozens of developing countries have faced daily intimidation and harassment from government officials for decades, foreign reporters were generally afforded more respect.
While foreign correspondents' stories may have caused some international public-relations trouble, their reports rarely reached the local people. So the journalists were generally left to do their work, subject to occasional intimidation and harassment. Often the most danger they faced was in combat, when they were shot at along with the troops they covered.
''They were rarely singled out for attack just because they were journalists,'' says Mr. Orme. ''That's no longer the case.''
As civil strife breeds chaos, and rebel groups operate outside the rule of the international law, journalists are often viewed as proxies for foreign governments or the international community. As such, they are perceived as the enemy, fair game to be used as bargaining chips or deterrents.
''If your aim as an insurgent force is to keep a story from being reported,'' Orme says, ''shooting a foreign correspondent is a very effective way to make that happen.''
The strife in Somalia has dropped off the front pages and out of some papers altogether, in part because there is less interest in the story since the United States withdrew. But there is also the intimidation factor.
Four journalists were killed by a Somali mob in 1993. Last summer, the Associated Press's Tina Susman was held hostage for three weeks. In September, a Somali correspondent for Agence France Presse, Ali Musa Abdi, escaped from militiamen after 22 days in captivity. His arrest had been linked in a report he filed for the BBC.
''There is now an informed reluctance of editors to send reporters to places that are manifestly very dangerous - anarchic, chaotic; places where your reporters are going to be seen as potential hostages,'' Orme says.
In Algeria, fundamentalists target journalists
ALGERIA is a case in point. Islamic fundamentalists waging a civil war there have specifically targeted journalists for execution. Since 1993, more than 50 have been killed. While one French correspondent has died, most victims have been local.
''On any street corner you can be shot down,'' says Horria Saihi, an Algerian television producer and reporter who has been condemned to death by name by Islamic fundamentalists.
Ms. Saihi won acclaim as a journalist in the mid-1980s for challenging government censorship and documenting the victims of the terrorists' campaign in which tens of thousands of civilians have been tortured, maimed, and murdered.
She now is constantly on the move, sleeping in a different place each night, traveling incognito, caught between the Islamic militants and an increasingly repressive military regime.
Monday, Saihi emerged in New York to accept a Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF).
''We're not only journalists looking for pictures and action, we're also part of this struggle,'' she said afterward. ''The struggle going on in Algeria is a fight against the forces of darkness, against fascism.''
Saihi says she has no choice but to be a participant as well as an observer in Algeria's civil war. She says the fundamentalist forces that claim to have a lock on the truth want to stamp out the free press, which she sees as central to any thriving society.
She refuses to stop working, saying she has a moral responsibility to convey the events of daily life to other Algerians and the world.
''I know what awaits me in the end is a bullet in the head, but what kills me more is censorship,'' she says. ''That would be a symbolic death.''
Intimidation continues in China
FOREIGN reporters in China are routinely detained for short periods, lectured about their coverage, followed, interrupted in the midst of interviews, warned to stay away from dissidents, and followed some more.
For the local press, the situation is more grim.
Twenty-six Chinese journalists are reportedly in jail, more than any other country in Asia. And as uncertainty about the future leadership and the takeover of Hong Kong in 1997 nears, the vise appears to be tightening. Human rights groups say reporters now are facing longer sentences in prison and reeducation camps for crimes that are more vaguely defined.
Gao Yu is a highly respected economics and political writer, known for her voluminous memory, and unyielding good humor. She was arrested in October 1993, two days before she was to leave for a fellowship as a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York.
She was not heard from for a year. Last November, Chinese authorities finally admitted Ms. Gao had been charged, tried, and convicted in secret. She is now serving a six-year sentence for ''leaking state secrets.'' She is considered to have a serious heart ailment.
''One of the dangers is that one can never tell where the line is drawn, what is permissible and what is not in the eyes of the Chinese authorities,'' says Yuet-Wah (Daisy) Li, chairwoman of the Hong Kong Journalists Association.
Gao, the former deputy editor in chief of the now-defunct Economic Weekly, wrote regularly for Hong Kong papers. Her offending stories focused on the prospects for China's economic reform and ironically had appeared in one of Hong Kong's pro-China papers.
Gao's arrest and conviction was interpreted as a direct message from Chinese authorities to Hong Kong journalists that, come 1997, they will be expected to play by a different set of rules.
''Freedom of the press does not just belong to the journalists, it actually belongs to the society,'' Ms. Li says. ''If a journalist gets jailed or harassed, it's damage the whole society has to bear.''
The Chinese government views Hong Kong journalists with particular sensitivity. That's because many Chinese officials use the independent Hong Kong press to anonymously express their dissent when they are unhappy with official policy.
Li and her colleagues are determined to maintain their independent status after 1997.
''We believe it's our obligation and duty to speak up for our Chinese counterparts,'' Li says, who was in New York on Monday to accept an IWMF Courage in Journalism Award on behalf of Gao. ''We're still operating in a free world. If we don't speak up for them now, who will be there to speak up for us in the future if the need arises?''
Latin America press climate improves
IN Latin America, the threats journalists face from military and guerrilla groups have decreased in recent years. But those eager to silence a probing press now include drug traffickers, vigilantes, and other paramilitary groups.
During the last year, 11 reporters were killed in the region, according to the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA), compared with 18 in 1993.
The lower figure masks what IAPA press freedom coordinator Ricardo Trotti calls the largest threat to a Latin American free press: the impunity with which journalists are threatened, beaten, and killed.
None of the murders reported this year has been solved, Mr. Trotti says. And he estimates that 95 percent of the 155 killings, 1,109 known beatings, 49 kidnappings, and 205 terrorist acts against media installations his organization tallied for the last seven years have gone unpunished.
''[That] is the most horrendous intimidation of press freedom in this hemisphere,'' he says.
But many reporters, such as Jose Ruben Zamora Marro in Guatemala, refuse to be intimidated. As the founder and chief executive of the daily Siglo Veintiuno, Mr. Zamora has been shot at, sent funerary wreaths, threatened by high-level officials, and accused of drug-dealing and terrorism. .
''In recent years some newspapers like ours have opened their pages to new points of view and a much tougher line of questioning of those in power,'' Zamora says. ''But there are powerful segments of our society that are still not accustomed to accepting differences of opinion.''
Zamora's trouble started in 1991, after Siglo Veintiuno documented the involvement of several military officers, police, investigators, and judges in the murder of a prominent anthropologist.
The military chief of staff of the then-Guatemalan president even called to ''suggest'' to Zamora that the reporter on the investigation would be better off outside the country.
Last year, Zamora was shot at again after his paper pursued a financial scandal involving several top government officials.
He remains undaunted, he says, thanks to the support of many of his Guatemalan colleagues, as well as conspicuous attention from international press organizations and a few foreign officials.
The two faces of Russian intimidation
REPORTERS view the Moscow experience from two definite perspectives: before and after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Mr. Daniloff's experience was a notorious - but also a classic - example of the treatment the foreign press received before the collapse, when Soviet authorities carefully monitored the foreign press's every move.
In late August of 1986, Daniloff was the Moscow correspondent for U.S. News & World Report. He received a call from a Soviet acquaintance who asked to meet him in a Moscow park.
Just as the man handed Daniloff a package, Soviet security agents leaped from behind trees and bushes and photographed the scene. The package was later found to contain documents said to be top secret, and Daniloff was arrested and taken to Lefortovo prison in Moscow.
He was held for 13 days, then released in exchange for a Soviet physicist who had been arrested in the United States on espionage charges two weeks earlier.
''They grabbed a journalist accredited here to pursue some other end, like the Bosnian Serbs grabbing someone now to show that they are players,'' says Carol Williams, the Los Angeles Times bureau chief in Moscow, who was an AP correspondent at the time of the Daniloff affair.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Western journalists have enjoyed greater freedom, with no further serious harassment.
Russian journalists, on the other hand, are paying a terrible price. Barely a month goes by without a local journalist being killed for one reason or another.
Last October, Dmitri Kholodov was working on a story about corruption among senior officers in the Western Army Group, the Russian forces in Eastern Europe.
Mr. Kholodov, an editor at the daily newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets, had been told by an anonymous telephone caller that an attache case contained documents useful to his investigation.
Instead, it held a bomb. He was killed when he opened the booby-trapped briefcase.
Kholodov's death caused an outcry, but his killers have not been found.


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What is the definition of Ghunnah and Ikhfah? What is the difference between them
What is the definition of Ghunnah and Ikhfah. What is the difference between them with examples. In Tajweed books sometime it is written to do Ikhfah and sometime they tell to do Ghunnah, is it one of the same or there is a difference in that.
The ghunnah is a nasal sound emitted from the nose. The ikhfa' linguistically means: hiding or concealment. In applied tajweed the ikhfa' is defined as: The pronunciation of a non-voweled letter stripped of any shaddah, characterized somewhere between an and an with a ghunnah remaining on the first letter.
As you can see by the definition of the ikhfa', the ghunnah accompanies it, but is not part of the letter being pronounced between an and . In fact, the ghunnah sound (nasalization) accompanies every and regardless whether the rule is ikhfa' or otherwise and regardless whether the and are saakinah or voweled.
So when you have the ikhfa' rule -which only occurs with the and saakinah when followed by specific letters- we also have a ghunnah accompanying it, meaning a nasalization from the nose. The ghunnah though can be heard with other rules of the and saakinah. The ghunnah is an inherent characteristic of both the and .
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Betty Ilene Baney
Betty Ilene Baney
Dec. 14, 1927 - April 21, 2013
BOURBON — Betty Ilene Baney, 85, of Bourbon, passed away Sunday, April 21, 2013 at 5:30 p.m. in Lutheran Hospital of Fort Wayne. She had been in failing health.
Betty was born Dec. 14, 1927 at Ft. Wayne to Ward Grim and Ethel Leora Welch Grim.
She has been a resident of Bourbon since 1953. She was a graduate of South Side High School of Fort Wayne in 1946. Betty was a homemaker and worked for nine years at Lincoln Life Insurance Company of Fort Wayne.
Betty and her husband Richard began their baking career with Tastie Pastries and she co-owned the famous "Eby Cookies" which were made right here in Bourbon and later baked for Amish Acres for more than 19 years.
She enjoyed her family, her friends and spending time with Richard watching sports and as a grandparent she loved her grandchildren and their activities as well. She was a member of The Bourbon American Legion Auxiliary and a member of the Bourbon First United Methodist Church.
On Sept. 6, 1952 she joined in marriage to Richard L. Baney who passed away March 6, 2012. She will be greatly missed by her two children; Cindy (Mrs. Douglas) Greaf of Ft. Wayne and Kevin (wife Kimberley) Baney of Warsaw and her grandchildren; Erica Subler, Haley Shelby, Ashley Herring, Taylor Baney and her great-grandchild Kira Herring.
She was preceded in death by her husband, sisters; Geraldine Richardson, Annabelle Ake and her brother, Bernard Grim.
The family will receive friends Thursday from 6 - 9 p.m. at Deaton-Clemens Funeral Home, 115 S. Main St., Bourbon.
Funeral services will be Friday at 11 a.m. in the funeral home with Revs. Stormy Scherer-Berry and Mark Cottrill officiating.
Burial will follow in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery at Bourbon.
The family requests memorial contributions to: the Bourbon First United Methodist Church or the Bourbon American Legion Post #424 in her memory.
Deaton-Clemens Funeral Home is privileged to be entrusted in arranging the services.
Condolences may be left at deatonclemensfh.com.


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William Bayley to mother, October 15, 1777Item 10548 info
Maine Historical Society
William Bayley, a soldier in the Continental Army, wrote to his mother, Jean Bayley of Falmouth, from New City on October 15, 1777.
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William Bayley's letters home are invariably brief and matter-of-fact. He writes about his health, which was astonishingly robust, life in the military, such as the lack of pay and clothing, and why he cannot come home as his mother requests repeatedly.
His combat experiences included Fort Ticonderoga and Saratoga in 1777, the infamous winter of 1777-78 at Valley Forge, and the Battle of Monmouth in New Jersey, 1778. But details and emotions are rare; seldom does Bayley step out of his role as reporter of events except, for example, after Burgoyne's surrender when he writes jubilantly, "Our people since I wrote the first of this letter have taken Burgoyne's Army with all their artillery and baggage and have sent down into the country bearing six or seven thousand besides Tories. This is greatest exploit the Americans have done yet."


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auto racing
auto racing
Racing will return Saturday with double points in all divisions —100 laps for the Modifeds, Twin 20 laps for the Sportsman Series. Street Stocks will race for 20 laps. Stadium Stocks will have twin 15-lap races. It will also be $2 Ladies Night.
These are the point standings at the halfway point of the season for the Davidson County Drivers.
In the Modified Division Lee Jeffreys of Wallburg is fifth with 409 points and one pole. Tony Black of Lexington is seventh with 354 points and one win. Black was the 126th driver to win a featured event at Bowman Gray. Robert Jeffreys of Wallburg is 16th with 209 points. Zach Brewer of Arcadia is 17th with 196 points. Steven Truell of Midway is 18th with 178 points. Brad Robbins is 20th with 89 points. Brian Loftin of Lexington is 31st with 34 points. Brent Elliot of Denton is 33rd with 30 points.
In the Sportsman Division Jeff Garrison of Arcadia is third with 353 points. Noah Triplette of Tyro is fourth with 335 points and three wins. Mitch Gales of Thomasville is sixth with 304 points. Kenny Bost of Lexington is 11th with 248 points. Bryant Robertson of Lexington is 13th with 227 points. Kenny Mitchell of Arcadia is 17th with 174 points and one win. Ryan Robertson of Wallburg is 25th with 104 points. Zack Staley of Lexington is 26th with 94 points. Mike Robertson of Wallburg is 31st with 41 points. Ronnie Barron of Lexington is 36th with 8 points.
In the Street Stock Division Billy Gregg of Lexington is eighth with 298 points and three wins. Taylor Robbins of Wallburg is 16th with 242 points. Jeffery Wood of Southmont is 27th with 32 points.
In the Stadium Stock Division Chuck Wall of Lexington leads with 410 points and three wins. Daniel Yates of Lexington is fourth with 350 points. Chase Hunt of Lexington is also fourth with 350 points and one win. Tyler Burke of Midway is 10th and one win. Junior Smith of Lexington is 17th with 235 points with one pole and one win. P-Nut Vernon of Lexington is 18th with 234 points and one win. Kevin Hedgecock of Thomasville is 22nd with 226 points. Tyler Lalone of Thomasville is 23rd with 210 points. Andy Southern of Midway is 27th with 194 points and one win. Stephen Sanders is 35th with 96 points. Randy Lineberry of Lexington is 37th with 90 points. Brent Brown of Thomasville is 52nd with 24 points.


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Keep Morehouse Beautiful has strived to keep the parish clean since becoming a Keep America Beautiful Affiliate in 2007, receiving little acknowledgement for their hard work, until now.
Keep Morehouse Beautiful has strived to keep the parish clean since becoming a Keep America Beautiful Affiliate in 2007, receiving little acknowledgement for their hard work, until now.
Keep Louisiana Beautiful recognized KMB Wednesday as the Affiliate of the Month. KLB executive director Leigh Harris traveled from Baton Rouge to present KMB's board of directors with the award at the Visitor Center during the Morehouse Economic Development Corporation monthly meeting.
"KMB has received awards from the Chamber of Commerce, but this is the first award from Keep Louisiana Beautiful," said KMB Executive Director Vicki Carpenter.
Carpenter gave a slide presentation for MEDCO and other community leaders that were in attendance, showing pictures of Bayou Bartholomew before and after KMB volunteers collected litter from the banks in May.
"I can't say enough about how much the police jury helped us , by providing a dumpster during the Bayou Bartholomew Water Sweep," she said.
Carpenter also showed before and after slides of three old homes on West Madison Avenue, which were torn down in May as part of the Main Carter Clean-Up Project.
"It really makes a statement when you see the before and after pictures of these properties," she said.
Carpenter pointed out their "most effective tool" for keeping the parish clean -- six dumpsters that were filled with debris during the City of Bastrop Clean-Up in April.
"We collected over 101 tons of debris and over 800 tires," Carpenter said. "Do you realize how much debris that is?"
Carpenter said in addition to volunteers, clean-ups would not be possible without the help of grants that help to fund KMB.
"We received a grant for $1000 from UPS six weeks ago," she said. "That money is going to be used toward six more dumpsters in October."
Carpenter said the grant was awarded to KMB because they are "in good standing" with Keep America Beautiful.
A press release issued by The UPS Foundation Awards states this is the fifth annual UPS/KAB Community Improvement Grant Program, providing more support than ever for recycling, beautification, community greening, litter prevention and waste reduction initiatives across the country.
"The UPS Foundation is pleased to support Keep America Beautiful because of the broad array of programs and projects that UPS employees can engage in to improve their local communities," said Eduardo Martinez, president of the UPS Foundation.
Carpenter thanked KLB for other projects they have helped to fund throughout the year.
"KLB helps us to fund the sheriff's department to find illegal dump sites," she said. "They also help us fund our Litter Free Larry program. This helps us to create awareness for cleaning up litter in the parish."
Carpenter said KLB has also provided funding for the improvement of parks in Bastrop.
"They funded trash receptacles in the parks and a new coat of paint on the fences," she said. "The parks are also now tobacco free."
Carpenter said a significant reason for having the award presentation during the MEDCO meeting was because of the role they play in aiding one another.
"Beautification is a link to economic development," she said. "When visitors come into our parish, first impressions are made within the first eight seconds."
MEDCO president Leo Nelson said during yesterday's meeting that KMB is very important to the economic development of Morehouse Parish.
"This is a peer partnership between several organizations such as the Chamber [of Commerce], the economic development corporation and Keep Morehouse Beautiful," he said. "We support each other."


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As such, I read UK online papers and all that. This is an email I received today after signing up (some 12 months ago) to a safer cycling survey from The Times in London.
Can you ever imagine the Daily Smellograph being professional enough to take on this type of story??
Dear Reader
A year ago, a journalist at The Times was very seriously injured while cycling to work. Mary Bowers, a much loved and hugely talented reporter, survived the accident but is only minimally conscious and is still recovering in hospital.
We make no apology for having begun a campaign on such a personal basis, only an apology for not having begun one earlier. Since Mary's accident, more than 100 cyclists have died on Britain's roads.
Today, a cross-party Parliamentary inquiry will open to investigate ways of encouraging more people to cycle.
The panel of ten MPs has agreed to incorporate your views into this study. We ask you, our 36,000 pledged supporters, to complete a short questionnaire for use in the inquiry. You can do so here: thetimes.co.uk/cyclesafesurvey
In four weeks, we will pass on your responses to the Parliamentary team as it calls for written submissions of evidence. The panel's report, which will be published in early 2013, should promote cycling as a safe, viable means of transport.
The Times Cities fit for Cycling campaign is not just committed to seeing meaningful improvements in cycle safety but the transformation of the urban environment so that people can cycle happily, healthily and safely in Britain's cities.
Thank you once again for your continued support.
James Harding
Editor of The Times
Link to survey here:
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Big-budget summer movies these days tend to fall into two categories. There's the slate-wiping reboot that seeks to delete all that came before ("Godzilla" and its ilk), and the keep-the-mojo-going sequel that hopes to build (and build and build) on existing stories ("X-Men: Days of Future Past" and its brethren).
This Friday, though, Paramount Pictures will try something unusual: It's releasing a movie that does a little bit of both.
The Hydra-headed creature comes, fittingly, in the form of "Transformers: Age of Extinction," the latest movie about those hulking masses of metal that are themselves two-in-one deals. Paramount in a way is trying to play the deck from both sides. The studio wants to lean on a brand that has been one of the most lucrative in Hollywood — but, using an injection of new blood and ideas, lend it all the feeling of a fresh start.
"It's definitely not a reboot, but it's also not a sequel," said Paramount President Adam Goodman in an interview this week, pausing to search for words to describe the hybrid. "It is its own new thing."
"Transformers: Age of Extinction" is a peculiarly modern Hollywood phenomenon, illustrating what happens when studio executives realize a franchise has grown long in the tooth but also remain reluctant to abandon a brand that has proved so bankable. Whether audiences will embrace the move or see it as an attempt to sell the same concepts in new packaging remains the key question, not just for Paramount but also for a nervous movie business at large.
Though a sequel-like continuation in title and theme — with director Michael Bay back for his fourth go-round after some earlier reluctance — "Age of Extinction" is also, in many respects, a slate-wipe.
There is a new direction to the story, which moves beyond the good-vs.-evil battles of robots to the larger fate of humanity.
There are new characters. Gone is Sam Witwicky and his millennial brio, replaced with the old-school machismo of Cade Yeager, a 40ish single-father mechanic.
And there are, of course, new stars. This time out, Mark Wahlberg plays the lead (Cade), rendering Shia LaBeouf's Witwicky as disposable as a mangled fender. Nor is the female lead a love interest, as it was with Megan Fox and Rosie Huntingon-Whiteley in the first three films, but rather Cade's daughter, Tessa, played by the teenage newcomer Nicola Peltz.
The story centers on Cade and his relationship with Optimus Prime. Four years after the cataclysmic war in Chicago that closed third installment "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" (the new movie does assume the events of the previous films happened, so score one for the sequel column), the Transformers have gone underground, persecuted by government officials wary of all the blow-em-up damage they wrought. Cade discovers Optimus Prime hiding in his garage and develops a relationship with him; a battle also soon develops between various Transformer factions as well as a scientist played by Stanley Tucci.
Rather than try to continue the epic battles between Autobots and Decepticons, the new movie, say Paramount executives, puts humans at the center of it all (while adding such toy creatures as Dinobots and other new destroying machines, just to be safe).
Of course, it's not just creative concerns driving the new story line. Like all studios, Paramount is acutely aware that noviegoers tend to tire of a franchise past a third installment. Disney's fourth "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie, in 2011, was the least popular of the bunch in the U.S. and also had the lowest Rotten Tomatoes score. "Transformers" has had a similar commercial arc, with box office for 2011's "Dark of the Moon" dropping 12% from 2009's "Revenge of the Fallen."
The new elements, they hope, will reverse that trend.
So marketers have gone to some lengths to underline what's different this time around. A trailer has an Optimus Prime voiceover saying that "this is not war — this is human extinction," an allusion to the film's new stakes. It also suggests just which humans we should be caring about with utterances like Tessa's resolute "I'm not leaving my dad."
"This 'Transformers' is really about the emotional connection between father and daughter," said Paramount's chief marketing officer, Josh Greenstein. "Some of our goals in marketing the film was to showcase Michael's incredible work not just on a visual level but on an emotional one."
Goodman said, "People will be pleasantly surprised that the movie stays in a very intimate place and stays there for a decent while."
Marketers have also created a "District 9"-like campaign that implores citizens to "Remember Chicago" and "Report alien activity," complete with a created phone number to help the cause; if Michael Bay spectacles generally aren't likely to be confused with even "Captain America: Winter Solider" and its heady National Security Agency themes, subjects like the fear of the other do give it a topical gloss.
As for the retailing of the film's new talent, a number of billboards highlight Wahlberg but others showcase the larger-than-life machines. (Plenty of people in Hollywood believe that, for all of Wahlberg's drawing power, Optimus Prime is the franchise's dyed-in-the-wool star and will be the bigger reason people turn out this weekend.)
Acknowledging both the commercial expectations that come with a "Transformers" movie and perhaps the creative fatigue that accompanies a franchise four films in, Wahlberg told an audience at the CinemaCon convention this spring that there's "a bit of pressure to step into the shoes of the other cast" but that he decided to go ahead because Bay had assured him "we'd be able to do our own thing and it'd be pretty much a stand-alone movie." (He couldn't resist a playful Wahlberg-style boast that the film is "bigger and better than the other three combined.")
Yet even with the more human stakes and a widening of the mythology, it's an open question if some filmgoers might find in all the explosions more of the same, leading them to ask if in the end this franchise comes down to rooting for one piece of metal to beat up another piece of metal.
Tracking, at least, suggests a strong opening. The film could reach the magic $100-million mark for the three-day weekend, with some estimates even nearing $110 million.
That would offer reassurance for Paramount, which has counted "Transformers" among its most lucrative series as other brands, such as "Star Trek" and the Jack Ryan movies, have hit some choppy air. (Over its three movies, "Transformers" counts a global box office tally — $2.7 billion — larger than the GDP of many small island nations.)
More broadly, a big opening would be a welcome development for the movie industry, which has seen no film reach $100 million on its three-day opening weekend so far this summer and a number of lackluster second weekends from brand-name franchises to boot. "'Transformers' is really one of the last chances we could have a $100-million weekend, which is quite remarkable," said Bruce Nash of box office site the Numbers. If it fails, 2014 could turn out to be the first summer without a $100-million domestic opener in 11 years.
But then, it's not just about U.S. audiences. International moviegoers will come out to a series much later in the game; the fourth "Pirates" film was actually the series' highest grossing internationally. "Transformers" has had a similar arc: 2009's "Revenge of the Fallen" saw overseas box office nearly double even as U.S. numbers fell.
Seven years ago, "Transformers' started a craze in Hollywood development circles for movies based on toy lines, at least indirectly spawning Warner Bros.' "The Lego Movie" and Paramount's own "G.I. Joe," also in conjunction with Hasbro, among plenty that haven't seen the light of day. It remains, at least in the commercial sense, the standard by which all license-centric movies are judged.
But that doesn't mean the franchise has always been an unstoppable juggernaut. The last "Transformers" film seemed poised to exceed $100 million on its opening weekend but wound up falling just short, with $98 million. And despite the belief that it could finish atop the box office heap for the year, the movie ended up being bested by the last "Harry Potter" film several weeks later. When it comes to "Transformers," what seems solid can start to morph before our eyes.


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Posted: Thu 10 Feb 2011, 17:52
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That is true but they do say it is 915/945 at times, maybe they mean these two got related somehow?
Ah and you can get internet with Greenpup? I have atheros AR8132 ethernet. and most of the old very small puppies fail to get internet on them.
Maybe you use the wifi thing and use wine and ndiswrapper?
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though
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IIRC, ndiswrapper was what I recommended for you
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Posted: Fri 11 Feb 2011, 00:08
Post subject: pulp 0.1
Subject description: modifications
Since I don't like mice, I edited /root/.jwmrc by
copying the rxvt line to the top (Alt-F1, down arrow,
Enter, type in the program name). I will look for
a way to start rxvt along with x (.xinitrc?).
I made a script opera to run opera 11. .
Opera 11 does not use gtk or qt.
To eliminate the blue rounded buttons, I edited
GTK2 with /bin/gtk-chtheme (and put that into the menu
after the MU-Gtk-Themechooser link) and changed GTK1
GTK2 from aqualight and aquaX to 'mist', which I hope
will let metab between buttons and see what I am doing.
Almostanything besides AquaX and Gnome ought to work except
for some unreadable color combinations (black on black).
Polite, Puppy basic, Puppy original.
While trying to do this without first exiting Opera,
in 96MB RAM, I got into an endless loop of some sort
swapping continuosly to disk (out of RAM?)
and hit ctrl-alt-backspace to exit X, then xwin.
gtk-chtheme uses gtk2 and must take a lot of RAM.
It was quite slow to start. I see why gtk 1.2
programs are preferred for pulp.
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Location: Ann Arbor MI USA
Posted: Fri 11 Feb 2011, 00:54
Post subject: pulp 0.1
Subject description: swapfile
I am used to Puppy 4.31 making a 200MB swap file when first
saved to disk. Opera 11 has been getting up to 115% RAM (top) and
then exiting abruptly, so I made my own 128MB file and Opera is fine now.
dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024K count=128
mkswap swapfile
swapon swapfile
What file do I edit to swapon swapfile at startup?
I am used to a general-purpose /etc/rc.
The buttons in the mouse setup dialog work fine
without a mouse now that I changed gtk to 'mist'
instead of 'aqua'.
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Posted: Fri 11 Feb 2011, 01:06
Post subject: pulp 0.1 and flash
Subject description: Opera 11 and Seamonkey 1.1.19 don't have it
pulp appears to have Flash 9 but both Opera 11 and Seamonkey 1.1.19
(not pets, but regular downloads in separate directories) say I
don't have flash and to download it. How do I make them work with
flash in pulp?
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Posts: 2621
Location: UK
Posted: Fri 11 Feb 2011, 09:25
Post subject: Re: pulp 0.1 and flash
Subject description: Opera 11 and Seamonkey 1.1.19 don't have it
sindi wrote:
pulp appears to have Flash 9 but both Opera 11 and Seamonkey 1.1.19
(not pets, but regular downloads in separate directories) say I
don't have flash and to download it. How do I make them work with
flash in pulp?
1. Find the file libflashplayer.so
2. Copy or symlink the original libflashplayer.so file (probably in /usr/local/lib/mozilla/plugins) to other similar directories.. Such as:
and so on...
That might work for you, if flash is indeed installed..
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Location: Ann Arbor MI USA
Posted: Fri 11 Feb 2011, 12:50
Post subject: Pulp
Subject description: flash player plugin
Thanks. Opera and Seamonkey are not 'installed' to /usr/
anything, but are in their own directories.
/opera-11*/lib/opera/plugins etc. I will symlink.
I am still using Basiclinux because I compiled a framebuffer
kernel for it and the text looks 500% better in framebuffer 800x600
than in an rxvt or a pulp 80x25 terminal. I will attempt to compile
the pulp/puppy431-retro kernel with framebuffer support for vesafb.
Or does one already exist?
Besides the framebuffer text looking better, Xfbdev uses
less RAM than Xorg, same as Xvesa.
Except for browsers, I rarely use X, and I see that pulp has
lots of useful CLI programs (plus I will be able to
use all the programs from Basiclinux in pulp since I have a frugal
install to the same partition as Basiclinux.) nano, dbclient
There is a framebuffer pdf viewer, an image viewer, and links2 can
theoretically be compiled to run in framebuffer mode, and netsurf.
Stuck with X for javascript.
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Location: Ann Arbor MI USA
Posted: Fri 11 Feb 2011, 20:21
Post subject: pulp and chrome
Subject description: no cups, how to install pets?
I tried to install Chrome and dependencies in pulp 0.1 by typing
petget filename.pet did not work, and instead I got a list of lines that terminated.
How do I install pets?
I manually copied the files to where they belong, and chrome wants libcups, which pulp does not have (nor does it have cupsd). I did find the print setup wizard. Good idea not to be running cupsd all the time. Does pulp actually print? I am only familiar with ghostscript or netbpm used CLI to print.
I can copy missing files from Puppy, but probably should not run Chrome on a computer with 128MB total RAM, where I just installed pulp. Firefox 2 is working nicely here. Opera 11 should do fine too, and Seamonkey 1.1.
I already had a pupswap.swp here made by puppy, which gets auto swapped on at startup. It might help other people to get a reminder at startup to make a swap file, with a script to do that, since pulp is for low-RAM computers.
Sound works perfectly (high-end onboard DELL speaker), as does networking (3com).
No need for gtk-chtheme - the other gtk theme chooser was able to change gtk1 and gtk2 themes if I chose 1+2.
The CLI programs might look nicer with font specified for rxvt.
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Location: the Western Reserve
Posted: Sat 12 Feb 2011, 03:12
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Subject description: it's a trend *|*
@sindi - dunno about 001, but in 003 Rox is there (just not on menu, type "rox" in console or return it to menu by making a new .desktop file), rox does dotpets and opens some other files more easily (but it is a bit 'heavier' for general file mgr duties if it also does the desktop pinboard &etc) .. Another way to do dotpets is to replace/rename the .pet extension with .tar.gz and simply extract it
the dotpet is not too complex (some need special pinstalls &etc). Gr8 that you're keepin' 'em flying - good pr for Opera <3
1st look at p412, PULP003 <drivel enthusiastic>
Wonderful. Great having tcl/tk back (it's a bit of a 'retro' look, like the gtk in this pup). Fast and responsive on older hwr (mine's going on 11 years old and I don't plan on new anytime soon). Good finds in siag (xfiler and xedplus). Not real comfy with this emelfm, but that'll change (I usually go a bit heavier with xfe) and rox is rox. Haha, the d'n'd pinboard could be used but personally I don't miss it.
The ui may be a bit scrunched/hard to see on smaller displays or for those with 'bad eyes' but it's compact and efficient. It feels
snappy with jwm, even with lots of windows up.
Oh - if you ever wonder why a few .desktop items don't show, strip the trailing space(s), for some files it's important
geany taught me that in a more obvious manner some other place. Fine point for bling (iconified menu&etc), the nice icons may be scattered about (like in /usr/local/share/siag/common/bitmaps dir..), here's one I cobbled for
A bit odd going back to the older drivename protocol (but of course they're not 'drives' so much as fs, something that still trips me up occasionally), that may be a tidy-up for different types of install with some if they switch back'n'forth with newer kernel'd pups.
</drivel> It's going to be interesting..
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Location: Gatton, Queensland
Posted: Sat 12 Feb 2011, 07:44
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@sindi and 'f00 -
your awesome efforts and expertise with zenfunk's "Incredible Pulp" make facinating reading and I look forward to seeing how far you push the envelope here -
Many Thanks!
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Location: Ann Arbor MI USA
Posted: Sat 12 Feb 2011, 13:42
Post subject: pulp 0.1
Subject description: rox petget .jwmrc .tar.gz/.pet
I found rox. Can be typed in an rxvt.
To add to menu I edit /root/.jwmrc - what is .desktop?
Does jwm (like icem) have some way to start menu items
from keyboard (Alt-t etc.)? Or can rox be used (without
making icons first) to start programs with keystrokes?
How would I get an rxvt at startup? I prefer to start
programs with keystrokes not arrow/Enter (or mouse).
I clicked on a .pet file with rox, petget started up
and told me I need 80MB free space and to enlarge my save file.
When I tried to use petget CLI it just gave me some error
message with a line number and 'terminated'. Can it normally
be used CLI if there is enough space for the program?
Petget started via puppy package manager could
download and install zedit. Petget was set to Puppy 2.
Is this intentional?
tar -zxvf program.pet will unpack the files, no need
to rename from pet to tar.gz. I installed Chrome pet
in puppy 4.31 this way - you can just run it from
where it is unpacked.
On this laptop, my Linksys v3 orinoco_cs card
prevents boot and if booted without it then pushed in,
pulp freezes. Have not tried the card in regular puppy
or with another laptop and pulp or puppy. The airo_cs
card works properly. The Linksys works here in another
linux. Pulp got stuck with Call Trace, Code: cc cc cc..
and prism2_hw_init error. Yesterday it sometimes worked.
Today it still worked in the other linux. Bug?112
Terminal-based programs might look better with different
fonts, but a big improvement comes just from Alt-F10
to make them fullscreen with larger text.
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Posted: Sat 12 Feb 2011, 14:06
Post subject: pulp 0.1
Subject description: petget does work
petget packagename.pet does work (if you have enough space to install to).
dotpup brings up the package manager.
The line numbers and 'terminated' are not error messages, just progress reports.
gtk2 programs take 5 sec or more to load at 233MHz in 96MB RAM.
Does puppy 2 use gtk 1.2?
Enlarging rxvt does not enlarge the font, just gives more characters.
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Location: the Western Reserve
Posted: Sat 12 Feb 2011, 15:39
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Subject description: ..
Edits in /root/.jwmrc may be considered only as temporary - edit the template in /etc/xdg/templates/_root_.jwmrc xml file if needed for toplevel menu and base with a few other items like includes.. my /usr/share/applications/rox.desktop is merely a copy and replacing some values of an extant file in that dir (like emelfm.desktop), if you use rox refresh the view and the file changes state in the rox window to look like the other .desktop files (these are the files that control the individual menu entries and behavior for load from menu). After any editing of these, run "fixmenus" in a console and reload jwm to check your edit on the menu itself.
Keybd use in jwm may be a bit different, your personal config in /root/.jwm dir should have a file or two besides the current selected jwm theme. Only high-priority key bindings are in that file for simplicity and not to interfere with other keybindings found throughout the system. I'd imagine Joe Wing's jwm page would have much more info on a standard setup.
Haven't used petget, but yeah increase your savefile/reboot if needed (some progs expand considerably more than the actual .pet filesize). Cool unpack on context menu (faster than xarchive), used it myself to help redo some personal sfs from saved tars for compatibility with p412 (I hope)
Mmhm, getting consoles the way you like can take a little trial and trial (errors are operator opportunities), most consoles go by rowsx#characters rather than pixel for overall size geometry and usual fonts are like 8x13 or 9x15 etc. Lots of info scattered about (like Bruce B's sticky in the ../housetraining/users section here in the plmf)
A few puplets based on the 2 series, like ttuuxxx's (but not sure what he used for engines) and 3 series has some nice offshoots since the original official offering.
I have to try out shinobar's pupsaveconfig utility..
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Posted: Mon 14 Feb 2011, 13:41
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Subject description: make that 149 posts on topic..
'envelopes' is tasty :9
I'd almost forgotten how easy on the eyes the 'vintage' gtk could be (like the forest theme with its welcome relief from that nasty too bright bg in rox present in most gtk2 - very light values are ok in good ambient light but almost painfully contrasty in dim to my eyes but others may need the stark contrast especially with displays that don't have a full range of value)
Interesting choice in 'outpup' I made to backup the savefile and check Zenfunk's sfs (saw something odd which might help explain an anomaly..) - good ol' boxpup p413 (hi Gray) with that *very* nice vbar (hotbar?) drive/mount utility
funny how I settle on certain wms in certain pups (here it was afterstep
Ohhkay, /root/.jwm has
.jwm subdir and a third (final) .jwm subdir of that (it can happen and I've done it too when doing too much copy work or etc) - just junk excess but the chosen/'active' themes are/were different (maybe the personal too but it's just a slip). Kind of shows why it's a good idea to always show hidden and other stuff but yeah, /root/.jwm is not all that much traffic so sure..
link to big 198k screenie
Oh boy, the wmplus.sfs seems to have loaded just fine (wbar was mia - missing some 'standard' icons haha). Whether it's all functional may take a little flipping about - good thing I got a handy utility for that
hsetroot looks to be good for bg extravagance
link to PULP3 work-in-progress fulldesk 506k screenie
. Onwards.
I 'cheat' on pulp, though - the hwr is almost overkill even if it is 11 yr old it never had
roblems on it, let alone blissta nor whatever patch is latest in that empire, win2k would be cool though
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Posted: Mon 14 Feb 2011, 15:33
Post subject: pulp 0.1
Subject description: linksys orinoco card, editing jwm menus
Yes .jwmrc was temporary. /etc/xdg/menus could be edited to make
changes to the menu as well as etc/xdg/templates (to add submenus).
icewm lets you edit everything at once (from the main menu). I would rather not deal with menus anyway.
Can you edit key bindings in jwm to let you type Ctrl-T for an rxvt terminal? Or some rc to start up X with an rxvt?
My Linksys WPC11 v3 card crashes pulp during boot (or if inserted after boot) in both my Thinkpads 560X and 770E with something about prism2, but aironet card works. The Linksys card works fine in Puppy 4.31, The crash appears to be while loading pcmcia module The same kernel and modules (same sizes) work in Puppy 4.31. What else changed between 4.1 and 4.3? Any plans to make a 4.3 based pulp?
Wireless scanner button at top also finds no networks but the Network Wizard finds them.
I read that the 22.214.171.124 kernel already supports framebuffer but you need fbcon module to use framebuffer console and it is found in Pebble which has something to do with initrd.gz....?
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After strong sales, deal for Beats and new OS features, Apple gears up for another stock-market run See full story.
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While many companies doled out seven-figure raises for their top brass last year, they were far more stingy with the rest of their employees — as they have been for decades now. See full story.
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Contractors say, on every building or renovation project, people always want three things: inexpensive, fast and good. At Re-Nest, we always say that projects should also be eco-friendly. The answer to this is recycled rubber. Versatile and abundant, rubber can be used for everything from roofing to flooring and many things in between. Read more...
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As mobile Internet access is becoming more popular, telecom carriers worldwide are all facing difficulties providing sufficient mobile data services to meet user demand. Solutions considered include canceling unlimited service plans, or establishing small cell base station or Wi-Fi networks to offload traffic.
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Profiles Of Jovan Belcher Ranging From 2008 Through This November Depict Him As An Underdog Story And Model NFL Citizen
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The player who shot himself is fourth-year linebacker Jovan Belcher, 25, Kansas City police have confirmed. There are no other known injuries at the Chiefs facility.
The Chiefs released a statement saying: "We can confirm that there was an incident at Arrowhead earlier this morning. We are cooperating with authorities in their investigation.''
Later in the day, team owner Clark Hunt issued his own statement, reading: "The entire Chiefs family is deeply saddened by today's events, and our collective hearts are heavy with sympathy, thoughts and prayers for the families and friends affected by this unthinkable tragedy. We sincerely appreciate the expressions of sympathy and support we have received from so many in the Kansas City and NFL communities, and ask for continued prayers for the loved ones of those impacted.
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The Chiefs (1-10) are scheduled to play at Arrowhead Stadium Sunday at noon CT, against the Carolina Panthers (3-8). One league source in the NFL office said officials were still trying to decide Saturday morning whether the game will be played on Sunday as scheduled. He said his guess was that the game would not be postponed or canceled, due to the complications of when to re-schedule the game in the remaining weeks of the season, or how a cancellation might affect the other 30 teams in the league in terms of competitive fairness.
"There is a ripple effect,'' the source said. "It's not simply two teams affected here. I'm not sure in recent history we've ever just canceled a game. But what's under consideration are all the factors involved if they don't play, when do they play? It's a pretty tight schedule to try and make a game up at some later point. These things have to be thought through. Nobody wants to play a football game right now if you're a Kansas City Chief, but what does that do to the other 30 teams? It gets a little complicated from a schedule standpoint and a competitive standpoint.
The league source said the NFL did not feel it was mandatory to make a decison in regards to the game before Carolina boarded its mid-day flight to Kansas City. "If the Panthers have to fly back from Kansas City without having played the game, it's not that big of an issue to deal with,'' the source said. "We'd rather take the time to think through all the ramifications.''
Kansas City mayor Sly James said that he's spoken with the Chiefs, who believe Belcher was a fourth-year linebacker who went undrafted out of the University of Maine in 2009. He signed with Kansas City as a collegiate free agent after the draft.


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Life in Christian County, Kentucky... More About Trees and Plants... The Rural Life...
Across Christian County, and indeed, across America, another wheat crop is well underway. In Christian County, virtually all wheat is winter wheat. It is planted in October, and the seeds sprout and grow until the weather gets cold.
The wheat goes dormant when the cold days of winter arrive. It begins growing again when the warmer weather of early spring rouses it. Farmers usually apply some nitrogen fertilizer in February.
By June or July (depending on the variety and the weather) the wheat is mature and ready for harvest. Combines gather the grain from the wheat stalks, and trucks transport the grain from the field to a drying and storage facility, either on the farm or at a grain elevator.
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Horrible: New Orleans Police Officers Plead Guilty To Firing At Unarmed Katrina Survivors Looking For Shelter!
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Doug is survived by his children: Lucenda and Aaron Woodard, Raymie and Joe McKeon and Isaiah and Megan Ward; and by his five grandchildren: Jace Woodard, Brendon Woodard, Kilee Woodard, Dayson Ward and Elizabeth McKeon. Doug is also survived by his two brothers, Jerald and James Ward, and sister, Sharon McElhaney.
Doug was an incredibly devoted son, father, and brother. He was a wonderful friend, member and server in the community and member of the First Baptist Church of Moab.
Papa Doug is known for his joy of serving others, wild adventures, love of photography, and his amazing smile.
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He has blessed the lives of all who knew him, and even though we know he is happy and where he wants to be, he will be very missed.
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An archpriest is a non-monastic priest elevated with an honorific rank, equivalent to the monastic archimandrite, though ranking one position lower. Archpriests are styled Very Reverend.
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The term protopresbyter (or protopriest) is equivalent to archpriest in Greek practice, while in Slavic usage, a protopresbyter is a rank separate from and higher than archpriest. Sometimes the protopresbyter is styled as Right Reverend. Also, there are usually only a handful of protopresbyters in a given Slavic national church at any one time.
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NEW YORK — For the first time in their 29-year history, the MTV Video Music Awards were broadcast live from Brooklyn, N.Y., on Sunday night, but as to whether the event showcased all the borough had to offer — well, you can fuggedaboutit.
The setting — the shiny new Barclays Center arena in downtown Brooklyn — may have lent the awards a veneer of hip, but homegrown talent such as Jay Z was scarce among the evening's winners and performers. Instead, MTV offered up "California Gurl" Katy Perry boxing in front of the Brooklyn Bridge and doled out prizes to Justin Timberlake, Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.
But what the evening lacked in outer-borough authenticity it made up for in the kind of manufactured spectacle that has defined the event since Madonna writhed around the Radio City stage wearing a trashed wedding dress during the network's inaugural broadcast in 1984.
Lady Gaga got the show off to a rousing start with a performance of her current single, "Applause," demonstrating her quick-change skills in a succession of outré ensembles. The singer, who had been sidelined for much of the year with a hip injury, took to the stage in what looked like a surreal nun's habit and exited in a thong and a pair of strategically placed clamshells.
And yet Gaga's set wasn't the oddest of the night. That honor belonged to former "Hannah Montana" star and twerking enthusiast Miley Cyrus, who shimmied provocatively with R&B crooner Robin Thicke and a legion of dancers dressed as teddy bears.
It was a memorable evening for another former Disney kid, Timberlake, who delivered a rousing marathon medley of hits and, as rumored beforehand, briefly reunited with his 'N Sync bandmates before accepting the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award.
The singer also took home the night's biggest prize, video of the year, for "Mirrors."
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BEIJING -- Strong showings by domestic films drove China's box office in the first half of 2013 to $1.79 billion, up 36% year on year, official statistics released Wednesday showed.
Domestic films accounted for 62% of ticket sales, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television said. Imports accounted for 38% of sales, or about $690 million, representing a drop of 21% compared with the first half of 2012.
At this pace, China's box office could top $4 billion for the year, since second half revenues typically exceed the first half. China's box office revenues reached $2.7 billion in 2012, making the market the world's second largest, passing Japan.
The North American market remains the leader by far, with $10.8 billion in revenue last year.
Domestic films performed extremely poorly in China in the first half of 2012, accounting for 36% of box office.
Since then, their performance has improved, thanks in part to the authorities' decision to schedule some imports in head-to-head competition slots and deny prime holiday release times to others.
The top three films in the first half of 2013 were: "Journey to the West," a Chinese adventure comedy, with $208 million; "Iron Man 3," which featured a couple of extra scenes with Chinese actors, with $125 million; and the Chinese romantic comedy "So Young," at $120 million.
Rounding out the top 10 were "American Dreams in China," "Finding Mr. Right," "The Croods," "Skyfall," "Star Trek: Into Darkness," "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" and "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey."
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Good morning, good God!
I offer you my thanks
for your divine imagination,
your playful wisdom shaping
earth, its seasons and their beauty...
Who first knew your plan
for shorter days and autumn chill
to sap the summer's chlorophyll
from leafy, shady boughs?
A gift of longer nights,
these hidden hues now bared
expose on every branch your hand
waving blessings on October's breeze...
I see revealed in summer's loss,
in each tree's seasoned death,
a glory of gold and russets
rustling purple patches, crimson crowned
and fall's late light filtered
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When my hope's summered green
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I offer you my thanks
for every leaf that sighs and falls
and pads the path I walk
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megan, even when we don't think we know what we're doing...even when the path may not be well marked, we encourage one another when we open the door just a crack and share the "how" of what we do. You never know who God directs into your path and how He uses exactly what you had to say/share as a blessing to others. I hope YOU are lifted up today by comments, reviewing the pictures of the lovely environment you've created, the minds and learning of your children, and the blessing of having them home - all for Him.ReplyDelete
Just know that I am praying over this with you, for you, every week. God supplies, no matter how awkward or ill-equipped we feel. HE will accomplish for you. (((you)))ReplyDelete
- Anonymous27 March, 2012
megan, thank you for sharing your heart and your home. both beautiful. keep living in love and grace and truth. all shining through. a.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous27 March, 2012
that was me. andrea@flourishingmother!ReplyDelete
let's have some awesome homeschooling talks in May!!! i can't wait!!ReplyDelete
and you space looks calm and clean...good work, mama.
i have about a 1000 things to ask and say but the most important is this...this post is such an encouragement to me. thank you.ReplyDelete
i am staggering through this first year of home school with a 8 & 10 year old...barely making it through the days and weeks and wondering what God was thinking and what next year could possibly hold. thanks you for the gentle reminders.
I think you are a rock star. Anyone who can teach their children at home deserves a medal in my book. You are doing awesome.ReplyDelete
First, I found you through your home tour, which was mentioned on Under the Sycamore a while back and fell in love with your comfortable, vintagey style.ReplyDelete
I am also a homeschooler. I don't usually admit that because of the thoughts it seems to conjure in people's minds. Really, I'm just keeping my girls home with me because I felt like their lives and mine were stuck on fast forward and I was afraid I would miss something important. Or worse, not know my kids when I look up someday to find they'd turned into adults. Anyway, I feel what you're feeling on a weekly basis. Especially this time of year. When I feel like we are wasting time or not sticking to the plan, I try to convince myself to just enjoy their presence. That's when I see it. They are beautiful and every day I am getting glimpses into their hearts that I wouldn't have otherwise taken the time to notice. That is invaluable to me right now and I am so thankful to God that I have it.
Thank you so much for posting such encouraging words. :)
I absolutely completely passionately understand what you are feeling. I muddle through my days feeling all those things. You are a rock star. : ). In my book anyway. Thanks for the post. I love sharing and receiving with you my friend!ReplyDelete
Love you. Hang in there! - j
i love your school room, A LOT!ReplyDelete
would you mind sharing more of the timeline with me?
it looks fabulous!
and girl, home school can be quite the trip, huh?
but in the end, it will be SO worth it! :)
Hi Megan: I'm with Mary--loving your homeschool room and very curious about that timeline. That's the thing I haven't wanted to tackle in our school room. Thanks for your honesty too--so freeing for others.ReplyDelete


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