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In case you were wondering who would be the next former Cowboys to be inducted into the famed Ring of Honor, Jerry Jones all but let us know on Thursday night.
In the pregame show on CBS 11, Jerry Jones was interviewed by Bill Jones and Babe Laufenburg and amid speculation of who the next might be, Bill Jones told Jerry to just "talk to him" and let him know who it would be, in a joking manner — probably not expecting an answer.
Instead, Jerry, audacious as always, all but answered it.
He said something about "OK, we're talking now" and then said Larry Allen is a name to be on the lookout for.
Allen was an absolute beast and a stalwart of the dominant Cowboys offensive lines of the early-mid 1990s in the glory days.
He played guard and tackle, and he did it all — a consumate professional.
The play I'll always remember Allen for was when he chased down a defensive back after a turnover, running at a perfect angle across the field, and caught him just before he got in the end zone before the defense kept the opponent out of the end zone.
I can hear John Madden now, raving about this guy who I wasn't really familiar with yet after he'd just run down a defensive back.
He was a mountain of a man, and if you believe Jerry, he'll be a mountainous figure in Cowboys history soon enough.


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Burn This Playing one of the most incendiary, original characters in modern drama, Pale in Lanford Wilson's 1987 oddball romance drama, Bernardo Cubria sets Silver House Theatre's small stage afire. Let's hope Unhinged Productions carries insurance. Cubria lights up the place and the overwrought script with a blazing characterization that borders on the sublime. There's so much life in Pale, such volatile conflict and raw emotion, that he immediately fascinates and mesmerizes, not that we'd ever want to meet him when drunk or after a few lines of blow. He sucks all the air out of the room and leaves you breathless -- and charred. He also frightens Anna (Jennifer Farley), who's in mourning for her dead gay roommate, Pale's younger brother, as well as in mourning for her inability to have a life. These two, of course, are destined for each other, even though Anna repeats her mantra, "I don't want this," while edging closer to Pale. Two others are entwined in Wilson's heated but circuitous pas de quatre: Anna's rich, spoiled boyfriend Burton (Mat Boudreaux) and her bitchy other roommate, gay Larry (Christopher C. Conway). All four are clueless in regards to making satisfactory connections, and the more they try, the deeper they are mired in grief and loss, which is mandatory Wilson territory (Hot L Baltimore, Fifth of July, Talley's Folly). But no matter how life keeps these sad, desperate people adrift without a harbor, far out on the horizon gleams a small beacon called hope. It may be elusive; it may also be a mirage; but for Anna and Pale, it's a lifeline. And for us, there's always Cubria, who burns as bright as any acetylene torch. Through March 10. 1107 Chartres Street, 713-547-0126.
The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) Take Shakespeare's entire oeuvre, add great quantities of British pantomime -- outlandish drag, boob humor and silly slapstick -- gloss it with lowbrow Benny Hill and the higher absurdity and wit of Monty Python, add healthy doses of uppers and caffeine, and then just sit back and laugh yourself stupid. This sidesplitting reduction of Shakespeare, fully entertaining via a trio of madcap guys at Texas Repertory Theatre Co. (the original played for ten years in London), not just takes down the Bard, but first spins him overhead before bouncing him off the ropes and head-butting him to the ground. While dissing the Great One, this zany whirl respects him, too, if only subliminally. So, for example, all the histories are played as a spirited football game with the English crown being tossed down field; the comedies are encapsulated in the whacked-out, ridiculously plotted "The Love Boat Goes to Verona"; the tragedy of Othello is animated with uptown rap; and the surreal, gory Titus Andronicus is parodied as a TV cooking show. The second act is devoted to Hamlet, and if their initial telling is not funny enough, which it most surely is, then you get to see the boys perform it faster, then fastest, then backwards. Even a passing knowledge of the plays will not deter your admiring laughter. The ultra-talented trio boasts Craig A. Miller, Steven Fenley and Ryan Schabach, who stop at nothing to get a laugh, for which we thank them heartily. Through March 3. 14243 Stuebner Airline, 281-583-7573.
Fools Neil Simon's comic fable was a big fat flop when it appeared on Broadway in 1981 and ran for 40 performances. Although apparently written in his sleep and savaged by critics, this tissue-paper-thin little comedy has plenty of Borscht Belt charm and Catskills know-how in its incessant one-liners, easy-on-the-brain story and characters whose main purpose is to be stupid. What's easier for the master of comedy than put-downs? Leon (Kevin Dean) is the new head schoolmaster in the remote Ukrainian village of Kulyenchikov. Eager and earnest about his job, he has stumbled into a place that's been cursed with stupidity for 200 years. The shepherd (Cliff House) constantly loses his sheep; the butcher (Ric Hodgin) sweeps dirt into his house; the doctor (Orlando Arriaga) offers up any prescription because "some people like prescriptions"; the postman (Chip Simmons) can never find the right address. Leon discovers he has 24 hours to lift the curse -- which entails the lovely but dumb-as-a-stump doctor's daughter Sophia (Jessica Lewis), with whom he's fallen hopelessly in love, and the pompous Count (Jeffrey McMorrough), who proposes to Sophia twice a day. Pitfalls and verbal pratfalls hound Leon in his quest to educate the girl, but this being simple Simon, the outcome's never in doubt; nor could it be, or this fragile comedy would blow away. A.D. Players, under Marion Arthur Kirby's snappy direction, plays this vaudeville as if it were vintage Sid Caesar, which adds a sprightly and soothing naturalness to the time-worn routines. If exchanges like the following set you aglow, you'll find Simon's merry Russian village much to your liking -- Sophia: "Would you like to kiss me?" Leon: "With all of my heart." Sophia: "No, I mean with your lips." Through March 18. Grace Theater, 2710 W. Alabama, 713-526-2721.
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Interior Roach (Philip Hays) hunches on his thin futon, flipping pages of his diary but not reading. He stares into the void in his sterile, white-tiled underground bunker. He sleeps fitfully. He eats powdered food out of plastic bags. He plays chess against himself and is jubilant when he wins. He sprays his reading lamp with astringent when he feels dust, then sprays his hands afterward, when not wearing medical gloves. Time goes by in fleeting little scenes. He checks his scanner for evidence of noise from above. Through the static, is that a voice? Supplies low, Roach is running out of time. The water tastes metallic. Maybe the filter's gone bad. He confesses to us his hopes, fears and growing paranoia. He may be the lone survivor of some holocaust above. He sees bugs. He rants at the scanner to talk to him. Then a bang from below, and in a grand coup de thaatre, his hallucinations materialize through the floor tiles as the Intruder (Salvador Chavez) -- or the Intruder's head -- pops out to confront him. "Come on, man," the disembodied head needles Roach. "Pull it together, work with me. What specifically is causing your problem?" Needless to say, Roach freaks out. "I think I'm losing my mind," he says presciently. "Maybe I should have built a spaceship." Later, the provocative head pops up again to ask what's real, while the voice on the scanner becomes more distinct. People have survived up above, but they need his help -- and his food, for the sick. We wait for the head to reappear, but Roach fades into helpless, hopeless insanity before that happens. Playwright Clinton Hopper channels Rod Serling's Twilight Zone for this one-acter from Nova Arts Project, but whether Serling would ever have written in a sassy head from the basement is a more pressing question than what happens to crazy Roach in his bunker. Through March 10. Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex, 2201 Preston, 713-623-4033.
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Parade This rich, darkly atmospheric, poignant musical is one of the finest Broadway creations -- undeniably, one of Masquerade Theatre's capstone productions. The story's a boiling maelstrom of community prejudice, legal corruption, religious bigotry and the worst kind of yellow journalism, which leads to the railroading and ultimate destruction of an innocent man, all rendered more incomprehensible and horrible by its being true. Based upon the infamous 1913 Atlanta trial and subsequent lynching of Jewish Leo Frank (Luther Chakurian) for the murder of "little Mary Phagan," a poor young girl employed in the pencil factory where Frank was manager, the musical, by Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry, ironically, tragically contrasts Frank's downward public spiral with the emotional deepening of his marriage. In heart-wrenching counterpart to all the brutal ugliness, he and wife Lucille (Kristina Sullivan) become a true loving couple the more they're forced apart. Sumptuously produced and elegantly directed by Phillip Duggins; abetted by ravishing costumes by Stephanie Bradow and Beth Hempen, deft choreography by Kristin Warren and sweeping musicality from conductor Paula Smith; and superbly sung and acted by the entire gigantic cast, this shattering, powerful modern work gives the lie to the death of the Broadway musical. If anything, through Masquerade's thrilling and intelligent rendition, Parade is its resurrection. Through March 4. Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, 800 Bagby, 713-861-7045.


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wow. its the 3rd time i was ignored. why?
Hi, sorry for this, but I dont provide support for customization or third party plugins.
Hi indonez, why title post of the blog is
Hi, not sure what you mean, could you please provide me your site url regarding your issue?
ok friendly, my site is www.solarsud.it I have basically two problems: The first concerns the map, I wanted to have the possibility of a text field is different from the google map. Let me explain: one for writing in the cloud of the map. And one to put the addresses above, because I have the need to enter multiple addresses company without the map disappears. and write each address on one line. The second, the ability to insert a widget in "our client", to fill in the blanks. Thanks for the support and sorry for the bad English.
1) unfortunately there's no for multiple google map marker for the address, it's only support one point marker address
2) did you tried to place epsilon – client list widget in available predefined widgets place from Appearance => Widgets menu?
ok solved, last question then the site will have to work for the company: D I need to remove the default menu pages to the sidebar because I have to install the plugin "advanced sidebar menu page" to get the parent category in the menu.
<?php if ($children) { ?>
<?php echo $children;?>
ok resolve, thanks for help me. the last thing I do not understand why css validator gives me an error on the site custom_style.php www.solarsud.it. I just wanted to know if 'is a problem or I need to change something. Thank you for your help.
error is "Errore sconosciuto org.w3c.www.http.HttpInvalidValueException: Invalid content type."
The portfolio category are just showing 4 portfolio items and I need to show more than 4. Can you please tell me where I can modify this variable? i have search this problem in the comments but you response only from email.
did you tried manage this from theme options => portfolio options => Number items to display per page option?
I do not mean the main page of the portfolio but its categories that have up to 10 items for page
ok, you can manage this from Settings => Reading => Blog pages show at most, set your number there.
Good morning I can not change the $ symbol by €. and also I can not change the annual weekly payment? Thank you.
for font problem, Epsilon theme used cufon font and by default did not support some foreign language accents and speecial character, if you want to replace the cufon font, you can try search the cufon font at http://www.cufonfonts.com/ and place your new cufon font at js/fonts folder of epsilon theme and activate from theme options => styling options cufon font.
be sure you have managed your billing cycle from theme options => product options => Billing Cycle option.
Hi Indonez, can You please tell me how I can chance the order of the slideshow items. It does not work with the date of publishing. Thank You!
Hi, did you tried to manage this from epsilon theme options => Slideshow setting => Slideshow Items Order option?
A client of mine purchased the epsilon theme, and it's going okay—but I'm having a problem with the home page.
Before we purchased and installed the theme, my client had created a page called "Home" and put some content in it. So now, instead of getting the epsilon home page, we're still getting the content she put in.
But then when I deleted that page from the list of pages, we get an error that the page is not found.
So what do we need to do so that the epsilon home page will come up?
Hi, epsilon theme does not require to your homepage as static front page in Settings => Reading options, just leave all options as WordPress default.
Thank you very much.
How can I make the client boxes be change to just the full images in the "Our Clients" section in the home page?
You place a wiget in Homepage Column 3 widget place to replace default client section.
How can I change the sign-up text or just remove it completely?
to remove this, please open header.php file, find and remove the following code :

 <?php echo __('Sign up','epsilon');?>| <?php global $user_ID; if ($user_ID): echo ''.__('Logout','epsilon').''; else : echo ''.__('Login','epsilon').''; endif; ?>

Is there a support forum website, where i can search for questions that have probably already been answered a million times? -aw
Hi, you can post your questions in our support forum at http://support.indonez.com
Hi indonez, sorry for my english, but i needed change color red for blue how i doing
Hi, you can manage this from epsilon theme options => styling options => Switch to Business Style? option.
Hi indonez, howto change Quick Contact number??
Hi, can manage this from epsilon theme options => contact info tab => phone field.
Hi! I've created a child theme but when I activate it I get a 500 error. The child theme just have style.css whith the import line. What's the problem?
Thanks. (My wordpress version is 3.6 and the theme version is 1.4)
For now the theme does not support for child theme, I will update the theme add support for child theme.
Greetings, the theme is great. However, I am trying to change the red button color on the homepage with no luck. I have already read all the comments regarding this, and still have not been successful. Can you provide something a bit more detailed?
fyi, I have already tried replacing the color in the here in the css, but only half of each button changes color:
.button, .button-red { background-color:#aa2328; -moz-border-radius: 4px; /* Firefox / -webkit-border-radius: 4px; / Safari, Chrome / -khtml-border-radius: 4px; /Linux browsers/ border-radius: 4px; /CSS3*/ background-image:url(images/bg-button.gif); background-repeat:repeat-x; color:#fff !important; margin-right:10px; padding:8px 20px 10px 20px; font-size:16px; display: inline-block; }
Thanks in advance,
... my apologies, please refer to my site to see what I am talking about.
Thanks again
you can replace the default button css code with the following css3 code :
a.button { font-size:12px; padding:3px 15px; display:inline-block; color:#fff; cursor:pointer; -webkit-border-radius: 3px; -moz-border-radius: 3px; border-radius: 3px; text-decoration:none; margin:0 0 10px; border: 1px solid #555555; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2) inset; -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2) inset; box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2) inset; text-transform: uppercase; background-color:#ff5c00; background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #ff7b31, #ff5c00) !important; background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #ff7b31, #ff5c00) !important; background: -o-linear-gradient(top, #ff7b31, #ff5c00) !important; border: 1px solid #c2612b; }
Hi. I need to translate some of the words that are automatically inserted such as "Started from", "Details", "Sign up"...
Where can I find them?
Found them. Spread in index.php and business-homepage.php
ok great!
Hi again,
This I can't find. Where can I modify the width of the Main navigation's sub-menus (drop down menu) area so that the items (pages) could fit in a single line?
Thanks in advance
Hi, ok try to add the following css code in theme options => styling options => custom css :
#menu ul { width: 200px}just replace 200px with your own value to fit your sub pages width
Yeah, It works well… almost. The area gets wider but, unfortunatelly, text isn't aware of this extra width and is stucked in their own column width. Could you please let me know the css code for that? Thank you
Hi, could you please provide me your site url first regarding your issue?
Sure. http://www.liberar-moviles.pro/ As you can see, the items in the drop-down menus 'Productos' or 'Legal' doesn't fit. For example 'Liberar Samsung' or 'Liberar Blackberry' should be in a single line.
try to add the following css code in theme options => styling options => custom css :
#menu li ul a, #menu li ul a:visited { width: 200px;}
Excellent!!! Thanks a lot
you are welcome
I want to change the links at the top where it says login/signup, but they pop open a new windows with the wordpress signup no matter what the link points to. How to I turn that popup off?
Hi, to turn off the popup windows, please open js/functions.js file, find and remove below code :
/* Popup Form */ $(".signup-form").colorbox({width:"465px", inline:true, href:"#signup-content"}); $(".login-form").colorbox({width:"465px", inline:true, href:"#login-content"});
to modify the login and signup login form action, you can edit from popup-form.php file.
Hi, is there a way to change the looping option of the slider to loop to the first slide without showing the slides in between?
Thanks, Diane
Hi, please open header.php file and find the following code :
jQuery(document).ready(function($) { var numImgs = $('#slideshow').find(".header-image img").length; if (numImgs > 0) { $('#slideshow').bxSlider({ speed: <?php echo ($slideshow_speed) ? $slideshow_speed : "700";?>, pause: <?php echo ($slideshow_pause) ? $slideshow_pause : '3000';?>, auto: <?php echo ($slideshow_auto) ? $slideshow_auto : 'true';?>, pager: <?php echo $slideshow_pager ? $slideshow_pager : 'true';?>, controls: <?php echo ($slideshow_controls) ? $slideshow_controls : 'true';?>, infiniteLoop: false, mode: 'horizontal', hideControlOnEnd : <?php echo ($slideshow_hidecontrol) ? $slideshow_hidecontrol : 'false';?> }); } });replace false to true in infiniteLoop value.
Hello, I can´t to chance the logo.
I need help.
Hi, you can manage this from epsilon theme options => general settings tab => Custom Logo option, just upload your logo there.
Hi, How can to change the style font of body?
and How to can to chance the 3 columns Services / Products Features box?
Hi buddy,
I want to buy this amazing theme, but could you tell me it is works on wp3.7.1?
Hi, yes it's compatible with WordPress 3.7.1, we have tested this.
1st. How i can change this article (Why choose our services) in home page right side and also (Quick Tour).
2nd. where i can modify Testimonials.
1) you can place a text widget and epsilon quick tour widgets in homepage sidebar widget place
2) you create a testimonials category post and add some post items there.
but i want to modified the existing one, how
OK i have replaced the gif acceptance payment gateway in product page but once you hover to another product the icons disappear
please respond quick
is it possible to set some products monthly and some products yearly billing cycle.
Hi, you can add your own content in text widget and use another widget if you don't want to use default widgets there.


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Dachau, city, Bavaria Land (state), southern Germany. It lies on the Amper River, just northwest of Munich. First mentioned in 805, it remained a small market town until the 20th century, attaining civic status in 1934. Dachau is situated on a hill, on the summit of which are the castle of the Wittelsbachs and a parish church (1625). The city's picturesque natural setting has long attracted landscape painters. Industries include the production of paper, cardboard, electrical equipment, textiles, and ceramics. In 1933 the first concentration camp set up by the Nazi SS (Schutzstaffel) was opened on the site of a former ammunition factory on the outskirts of Dachau. A museum and memorial chapels were opened in the 1960s. See Dachau (concentration camp). Pop. (2003 est.) 39,474.
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The armed bandit who robbed more than a dozen North Texas banks wearing an elaborate disguise and fired at an officer on Saturday is the owner of a Tyler funeral business, police say.
Richardson police identified the "Handsome Guy Bandit" as Steven Ray Milam.
On Saturday, Milam -- in his "Handsome Guy" mask -- robbed the Compass Bank in Richardson, police said. As he ran off, he fired a gun at an officer multiple times, hitting a squad car.
Police say they recovered a mask, gun, money and his car on Saturday, but have not found the suspect.
Milam, 44, was dubbed the "Handsome Guy Bandit" because of his professional, realistic-looking mask that covered his entire head. The disguise costs about $800 and is used for special effects.
Milam lived in a well-kept Tyler home on a quiet street with his wife and young son, neighbors said.
"We chatted with them on a few occasions," said neighbor Kathy Ghrist. "We didn't have any idea that he was dangerous or that he was a criminal."
Milam also founded a discount funeral business in Tyler called "Monumental Memorials." His picture appeared on its website. FBI agents searched the business on Monday.
"Sometimes he's nice, sometimes he hasn't been nice," said Shawn Robinson, who runs a fancy car business next door. "As far as seeing a customer, i don't think I could ever say I saw one customer."
Milam has a criminal record dating back to the 1980's, but few in Tyler apparently knew of his past.
He appeared in at least one local television news report promoting his funeral business.
Robinson said in recent months Milam appeared to stop selling caskets and instead marketed miscellaneous items people left in storage containers.
Officials believe Milam is armed and dangerous.
Anyone with any information about Milam should call Richardson police at 972-744-4801.


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I'm trying to set up Coalition in WordPress and am finding it very difficult to add pages to the menu. I know its a one page site, but how do I add sections to it? Also how do I edit the existing menu items to read Home, residential etc.
Sorry if I'm a little vague, but a video tutorial on setting this theme up would have been a life saver.
Create a test site then Import the dummy data. Check the One Page Template, see how it works.
Basically, One Page Portfolio is made up of two elements. First is the Page Section element, then the Page/Post Content. You can also add elements like Text/Area, HR etc. Page Section will automatically create a menu on the sidebar after the name you specify under "Link and Section Name". "Section Link Behaviour", can be set to Default or you can link it manually to another page. Create as many Page Section as you like. On Coalition > Theme Options > One Page Portfolio or Basic WordPress theme?, select "Run as One Page Portfolio".
Hi Ismael,
Many thanks for taking the time to help. I really appreciate it. I'm getting the hang of creating the pages by dragging and dropping.
However, I have two questions: How do I reduce the amount of white space between the different pages? How do I insert a footer after each page section so I can put name and contact details in?
Again, many thanks for your help.
Hi Jon,
The spacing would have to be changed with css either for all elements or if its specific ones we would need to target those divs specifically. It depends on what exactly you want.
To add additional content after a section you just need to add a new element into the template builder after that 'page' content.
Thanks Devin.
understood.that's great.
Thanks very much for taking the time in replying.
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JACK Irvine laments that his children will not have a vote in the independence referendum because they no longer live in Scotland (Letters, December 18).
My answer is, so what?
Mr Irvine points out that they can vote in European Parliament elections. Quite true, but those are Europe-wide polls. If his children have moved to London then they vote in the London regional constituency. Indeed, if they move to another EU country then under EU law they vote in that country in elections to the European Parliament. The Scottish independence referendum, on the other hand, is a Scotland-only vote and hence, just like Scottish Parliament elections is for those living in Scotland.
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The argument that Scots outside of Scotland should vote amounts to an attempt to stack the deck against independence. If the vote is to be on nationality rather than residence, however, not only do we open the door to the toxic doctrine of exclusive nationalism but we also end up in a situation where non-Scots living in Scotland should not be allowed to vote.
Do we want to say that those of our English neighbours that have chosen to move to Scotland should not be allowed to vote in the referendum? Even worse, do we want to tell them effectively that an independent Scotland is not a place that will welcome them?
I certainly hope not.
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Airlines Cancel Fees for Travel Agents
Swiss and Lufthansa will officially notify travel agents that they will no longer pay them for selling their tickets.
Two airlines are starting a travel revolution today: Swiss and Lufthansa will officially notify travel agents that they will no longer pay them for selling their tickets. This will likely make overseas flights more expensive.
This is a dramatic step, since until now all airlines paid agents 7% of the ticket price. The two airlines are now inaugurating the "zero fee" ticket, a first in Israel.
The new plan will take effect in about half a year, to allow travel agents to prepare for the change.
Other airlines, such as British Airways, Air France and KLM, are expected to make the change during 2008, too.
El Al is also expected to cancel its travel agent fees, but only at a later stage, even though it has denied planning to do so for now.
The official letter from the airlines notifying travel agents of the move will go out today, after a long series of meetings between the CEOs of Swiss and Lufthansa in Israel and the heads of the large travel agencies. Travel agents objected to the move.
In place of the fees from the airlines, travel agents are expected to charge customers "handling fees" for issuing tickets. The amount of the new charge has not been set yet, but it is expected to be around $50 per ticket. However, the fee may vary depending on the type of ticket and the amount of work put in by the travel agent.
Also, travel agents who meet the airlines' sales goals will also receive bonuses.
The low-cost airline Jetairfly, part of the Belgian TUI Airlines group, will be the first regularly scheduled airline to compete with the existing carriers.
The airline will fly the Liege-Tel Aviv route three times a week, starting in spring 2008.
Currently, both El Al and Brussels Airlines fly the Brussels-Tel Aviv route.
The civil aviation authorities of the two countries recently signed a new agreement allowing the additional flights.
This is another step by TUI to expand its operations in Israel. Its British Thomsonfly subsidiary started direct flights to Israel from London and Manchester in November, and its Corsairfly has requested permission to fly the Paris-Tel Aviv route.
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This vera is a special GNU edition of V.E.R.A., a list dealing with
computational acronyms. This is a dictionary converted from the
original one into JIS X 4081 format (that is a subset of EPWING V1) by
FreePWING. So it can be used by EPWING viewer on Unix and the other OS
(e.g. Windows or MacOS). URL for this converted dictionary is
WWW: http://openlab.ring.gr.jp/edict/fpw/
make generate-plist
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/japanese/vera-fpw/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install ja-vera-fpw
cd /usr/ports/japanese/vera-fpw/ && make install clean
pkg install ja-vera-fpw
PKGNAME: ja-vera-fpw
SHA256 (vera-1.8-fpw1.0.3.zip) = e6fad5a1ee06b027df299cce07d7599c137fc48393efbb9abf9ef813c103b093
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Modest forest plan limits will remain in place
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FRISCO — A federal judge in California this week upheld a plan that limits off-road motorized use in the Tahoe National Forest. Motorized users had challenged the rules as too restrictive, but conservation advocates said the plan strikes a good balance, enabling motorized access on much of the forest, but protecting sensitive areas.
Several conservation groups, represented by Earthjustice, intervened in the lawsuit in defense of the plan, arguing that there is no way to adequately protect a forest while allowing motor vehicles to trammel all over the forest with no restrictions or limits.
"This is a good decision that strikes a balance to give Tahoe National Forest some necessary, basic protections. One thing both sides of this case agree on: Tahoe National Forest is a stunning, special place," said Earthjustice attorney Greg Loarie, who argued the case. "With millions of people visiting Tahoe National Forest each year and the rapid increase of motor vehicles throughout the forest, we need some basic limits on motor vehicle use to make sure that we don't love this place to death. It's in all of our interests to preserve and protect Tahoe National Forest so that we all can enjoy it."
"This decision sends a clear message … The days of allowing destruction of our national forests from uncontrolled and unregulated off-road vehicles are at an end. We all have a right to enjoy our public lands, but no one has a right to destroy them," said Karen Schambach, of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.


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It's not always easy to find good-looking products for organizing paperwork and when we do, they often come with a hefty price tag. These crates are a great example of how a little bit of resourcefulness can produce boutique-worthy containers for less than $5 each!
Designed and built by Kit from DIY Diva, the crates were assembled using wood from old pallets. The vintage labels were made using a photocopy of a design transferred onto the crate with a blender marker. File folders hang on bars made from aluminum strips that slide into notched grooves at each end of the crate.
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Guillermo del Toro Dishes Details on Developing 'Justice League Dark'
by Ethan Anderton
April 1, 2013
Source: ComingSoon
Just last fall, we learned that Guillermo del Toro had another developing project in his ever-growing future slate that would bring him back to the world of comic books. Along with Hellboy 3 being a possibility, del Toro has also been developing a project once called Heaven Sent, though it's more commonly being referred to Justice League Dark. As comic book fans might deduce, the film would bring DC Comics characters like Deadman, The Spectre, Swamp Thing, Constantine Hellblazer, Phantom Stranger, Zatanna, Zatara, Sargon and Etrigan the Demon all together in a single film. Thankfully, a fan at WonderCon asked del Toro about the project, and he dished some details on the characters and story.
When asked about Justice League Dark (also called Dark Universe), del Toro said:
On 'Justice League Dark,' or 'Dark Universe,' what we're doing is we finished the bible. Then we're going to start the screenplay with a writer we hope we can announce very soon.
What I'm doing is the lead character that guides us through that is Constantine. Blonde. He is basically trying to recruit these guys. On Etrigan, I'm using Jason Blood in the time of Merlin. We get to their origin through the story. We don't make the origin story at the top. We find it out as they each have mysteries to solve. Swamp Thing is at peace with who he is, but Deadman still needs to figure out who shot him. It's all woven in. When I was a kid, my two favorite characters in the whole DC Universe were Etrigan and Swamp Thing, so I'm in heaven.
If you didn't follow some of that, ComingSoon clarifies, "the story would feature Jason Blood's history with Merlin and the Knights of King Arthur, bringing a threat to present day." And that's John Constantine, a slightly different version than the one Keanu Reeves' played, recruiting this team to save the world from this threat. And what might that threat be? Well, it seems interesting that del Toro says that he's in heaven, because Superhero Hype has an interesting theory on how the story might play out. They reference a specific storyline from one of the Justice League Dark members' comic history and it ties pretty well into what del Toro said at WonderCon. Here's their explanation of a potential plot for the film:
In June of 1985, issue #37 of the award winning and ever popular "Saga of the Swamp Thing" was published. Written by a quite hairy and hermit-like man named Alan Moore, the comic introduced a character that would go on to be the longest running Vertigo series and the focus of a feature film, John Constantine Hellblazer. This issue also planted the seeds of a monstrous storyline that Moore would tackle down the road. Throughout the course of the next eleven issues, Constantine would meet with the Swamp Thing to discuss his full potential as an avatar of the green, to show him the things he is capable of doing, and to make him see how much bigger the world around him really is.
This "Swamp Thing" storyline took place during a comic book event called "Crisis on Infinite Earths," which saw the destruction of many different planes and universes. The destruction of all these worlds is the catalyst here and is what a continuously mentioned cult called "The Brujería" use as their opportunity to awaken "The Great Darkness." Still with me? Remember back to when this Del Toro project was first rumored and it was called "Heaven Sent"? Guess what the target of The Brujería and The Great Darkness actually is? It's not Earth like what Swamp Thing first thought, it's Heaven. The cult plans to destroy Heaven.
This is why the team is formed. Constantine and Swamp Thing spend much of the set-up issues wandering the world (both the physical and other worldly planes) locating and convincing characters to help them stop The Brujería. Along the way they recruit Deadman, The Phantom Stranger, The Spectre, Etrigan the Demon, Dr. Fate, Zatanna, Zatara, Sargon the Sorcerer, Dr. Occult, and Mento to help them (of which most of these have been mentioned by Del Toro as being a part of the cast). Together they all band together as a group of unlikely heroes charged with saving Heaven, and with a band of angels in tow they are indeed "Heaven Sent."
That sounds pretty damn epic, and perfect for someone like del Toro to bring to life. In addition, the greatest part is that we don't get the traditional origin stories for all these characters like we're used to seeing on the big screen. Instead we learn about their past as this big even unfolds and they have to work together. This is something DC has been struggling with as they attempt to get the regular Justice League off the ground without more than half of the team members being introduced on the big screen yet. However, before everyone gets too excited, del Toro did say they're just getting ready to start writing a script and that he will direct Crimson Peak as his next project. Either way, we can't wait to hear more. Sound cool?
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The United States is still behind other countries in the world in terms of bringing broadband Internet access to its citizens. That's the results of a new study announced on Friday by the Federal Communications Commission. The study says that the US is 12th out of 33 countries that have households with broadband connections. It's also ninth out of 29 countries for mobile broadband adoption.
The reports claims that 26 million US citizens still do not have access to broadband Internet services, mostly in rural areas. However more interesting is the fact that a third of US citizens still don't subscribe to broadband Internet services even though such access might be available to them. The FCC states, "This suggests that barriers to adoption such as cost, low digital literacy, and concerns about privacy remain too high." There's also a limited amount of broadband access in schools and libraries in the country, according to the report. The FCC says this situation is a "further indicator that broadband is not being reasonably and timely deployed and is not available to all Americans."
There is good news on this front, however. The FCC report states, "Despite the difficult economy, the private sector continues to invest tens of billions of dollars in broadband infrastructure each year - $65 billion in capital expenditures in 2010 alone - expanding capacity, increasing speeds on fixed networks and rolling out next-generation mobile services like 4G." Having more and better broadband access can help generate more jobs, according to the report. The FCC states that over 200,000 jobs can be created "through investment in 4G wireless technologies alone"


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Officers responded to a report of a shooting at a house in the 400 block of Hichborn Street on the city's west side at about 5:20 p.m.
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David Cameron is continuing his tour of Africa today and is — according to the New York Times — 'boasting a sheaf of commitments to new partnerships in the fields of defense, counterterrorism, intelligence-sharing and military training'. He was in Tripoli yesterday, where his approval ratings ought to be sky high having been instrumental in the operation to depose Gaddafi. He was urging a no-fly zone at a time when even the Pentagon was mocking him for the idea.
Last week, he upped the stakes and spoke of a 'generational battle' in Mali. The PM is turning into quite the hawk: after Afghanistan and Libya, the decision to contribute C-17s and 330 troops to the French effort can count as his third war in just over two years. The decisions he is taking, and the speeches he makes to justify them, are reshaping British foreign policy. I look at this in my Telegraph column today. Here are the main points:
1. Cameron has changed his position on foreign affairs. George W Bush famously scorned the idea of nation-building before he became president. Cameron began seeing foreign policy as a series of trade missions, and embassies were instructed accordingly. This was a rather tawdry policy, that meant he was in the Gulf with a bunch of arms dealers when the Arab Spring kicked off. It was not a good look. During that trip — in Egypt — Cameron was taking swipes at Blair saying he was not a 'naïve neocon' who thought you could 'drop democracy out of an aeroplane at 40,000 feet'.
He was right: the Tomahawk missiles he ordered just three weeks later cruised at 400 feet before hitting Tripoli — and, yes, ushering in a new democracy. Cameron was being cheered in Liberty Square in Benghazi just a few weeks later, and went back to Martyrs' Square in Tripoli yesterday as a follow-up. He is visibly warming to all this.
2. All this is personal for Cameron. You can hear more his voice in more than any other area of government policy. Even the military chiefs were anxious about Libya (and still are about Mali) but Cameron is simply giving voice to a policy decided by a committee. He is leading, something that doesn't happen enough. His European speeches may have an elephantine gestation period, but his foreign intervention declarations trip off the tongue. He's going with his instinct, and the foreign policy is being formed in the process.
3. So let's look at the Cameron doctrine, in his own words:
'Together with our partners in the region, we are in the midst of a generational struggle against an ideology which is an extreme distortion of the Islamic faith, and which holds that mass murder and terror are not only acceptable but necessary… We must frustrate the terrorists with our security, we must beat them militarily, we must address the poisonous narrative they feed on, we must close down the ungoverned space in which they thrive, and we must deal with the grievances that they use to garner support.'
This is not a doctrine you will find in any Foreign Office document. It declares that France's struggle against Islamic tribesmen should be regarded as Britain's struggle. It states as UK objective the defeat of the Saharan jihadis and commits Britain to 'close down' an 'ungoverned space' as big as France itself.
4. Cameron is volunteering Britain's services as a roving African policeman ready to track down Islamic jihadis in this 'generational struggle'. And God knows there will be more opportunity to do this, as the Arab Spring will create more opportunities for the Islamic nutcases whom the old dictators threw in jail. You can think Cameron's wide brief is a good thing or a bad thing (I'm in favour) but it does have implications about the use, and the budget, of the British military.
5. There is nothing in Mali that directly threatens Britain. This 'al-Qa'eda in the Islamic Maghreb' (AQIM) is a scary name given to what started out as an Algerian insurgency (rather than a Bin Laden offshoot). The current lot, 'Those Who Sign In Blood', used to make a living a bunch as smugglers and kidnappers. They grew stronger and richer when the French were dumb enough to pay up.
So AQIM is not like al-Qa'eda in Yemen, whose key asset is an innovative bombmaker who made the printer bomb (found in East Midlands Airport) and the metal-free underpants bomb (which malfunctioned on a flight to Detroit). The Yemeni division of al-Qa'eda spend their time thinking of how to blow up aircraft, etc. There is no evidence that the Saharan lot — or the leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar — have much any interest in anything in Europe. Belmokhtar, an Afghanistan veteran, avowed himself to al-Qa'eda in 2006 creating lots of headlines (which is what it's all about) but later fell out with them. His four wives are from Mali, hence the links. But the Tuareg will work for the highest bidder: they are mercenaries, not jihadis.
During the Algerian gas plant siege Belmokhtar asked for the release of the Blind Sheikh in America which was taken by some to indicated that he did have global ambitions and that Mali was the new Afghanistan. But this demand can be better-understood as laying a claim to grandeur. A bit like the bit in Die Hard, where Hans asks for the release of members of Asian Dawn in Sri Lanka – he just wanted to give off the vibe of having an international agenda. But there is no evidence of any links between AQIM any British terror cell, or anything in mainland France.
That doesn't mean such links may not be built, that Belmokhtar has his Islamists are not truly evil (read this report about what the Islamists did to Timbuktu for proof of that) or that he does not threaten British interests (i.e. expats and factories) in Mali.
But it's important to draw a distinction between the opportunistic Belmokhtar and, say, the badlands of Pakistan (still the no. 1 threat to the UK) where there is much more traffic to the UK and there are still terror camps that train jihadis to strike back here.
6. The ghost of Bosnia. When trying to understand why Cameron feels so strongly about this, one ought to remember Bosnia. The last Conservative government failed to act — in common with other European powers and the pathetic UN — and the result was the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. A striking number of those in No. 10 have either worked in Bosnia or know it well. William Hague's special adviser came to Britain as a Bosnian refugee. So yes, deploying the military has its risks. But sometimes, the consequences of failing to deploy the military are even greater. This was the lesson of the mid-1990s. It's seldom mentioned but the ghost of Bosnia still haunts the Conservative Party, and when Gaddafi was getting ready to move into Benghazi one argument being deployed was that Britain cannot stand back and witness another Srebrenica.
7. Cameron and Osborne have swapped sides. In 2003 when they were prepping Michael Howard for PMQs, Cameron would tease Osborne for being a 'neocon' his enthusiasm for the war on terror. But now, I gather, Osborne is the one nervous about Libya and Mali. He regards war as a huge expense that doesn't win votes (Libya cost about £200 million). To Cameron, it's about the national interest — and hang the cost.
8. But Cameron needs to fund the military to meet his ambitions. When he was deciding the latest military budget, Cameron said at one point 'We've had enough pain — what about some fudge?' And there was fudge aplenty, especially in the odd plans to double the size of the TA when they can't even fill it to its 15,000 strength right now.
9. Cameron wants an army that can fix problems from the Hindu Kush to the Sahara. And one that can voluntarily join countries like France in missions that don't affect Britain because Cameron thinks it's he right thing to do. This is a noble position, quite in line with Britain's traditions and role in the world. It is almost pointless deciding foreign policy before entering office — it is decided by world events and the PM's response to them. Cameron has responded quickly and (I think) brilliantly. His decision is that Britain is a country that tries to shape the world, rather than be shaped by it.
10. Cameron has surprised others — and perhaps himself — in the decisions he has taken about foreign policy. He spoke about a generational struggle the same day that Obama said 'a decade of war is now ending'. Of the two, I think Cameron is being more clear-sighted while Obama is being too dismissive. But the lack of American interest means a lack of American arms: already the French are going begging for equipment (C-17s, drones) and if this is the new world then it will be even more expensive.
Tony Blair caused great damage to the UK military by over-stretching it. The victims were not just the soliders who died from lack of proper protection but the people of Basra who lived (and in many cases died) under the Shi'ite death squads because the UK presence there was too small to protect them. Blair was so lucky that the media didn't really pick up on this. I've long argued that the way we left Iraq, not entered it, was Blair's real war crime.
In opposition, Cameron rightly lambasted Blair for fighting two wars on a peacetime budget. In office, he cannot very well fight three on even less money. His decision to cut the MoD budget by as much as he increased the aid budget was bizarre, for a PM already at war. If he was going to ignore Mali, he could perhaps have justified the military cuts. But he wants an army capable of solving problems Sangin to the Sahara — and rightly so. The Spending Review comes in June. Cameron has decided what sort of military he wants. Now, he has to pay for it.
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Cece took me and Terri to her home town of Juneau Alaska. It was really fun. She took us to the glacier to look for bears! I was dissapointed that I didn't see any but she said maybe next time. There were too many people around.
Cece played a joke on John when we were up there. She told him that we fell in the water at the dock and were swallowed by a killer whale. Cece and her mom thought that was funny but John was really worried about us.
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On Sep 20, 2006, at 6:39 PM, John Dalbec wrote:
OK, "install-2.4 ramdisk_size=13000" worked. Now I need to figure out how to get X and the network set up. I have an nVidia GeForce 2 MX. I have an original AirPort card and a DLink wireless router using WPA.
Has anyone been able to use WPA with an 802.11b (original) AirPort card? I don't see any applicable drivers when I run wpa_supplicant. I have airport, orinoco, and hermes in my "lsmod" so I guess hermes would work, but how do I get those drivers? Do I rebuild the kernel? A pcmcia package? The wpasupplicant package? I thought I also saw something about orinoco drivers but now I can't find it. Do I need kernel 2.6? Does kernel 2.6.16 handle USB probing better than 2.6.8? I tried booting 2.6.8 but it froze at the hardware detection step.
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I also need an IPSec/L2TP client. Oh, and I also need to set up my Bluetooth Mighty Mouse (via DLink DBT-120).John On Sep 19, 2006, at 10:33 PM, John Dalbec wrote:I tried the regular install. The keyboard selection step hung (khubd was in uninterruptible wait). I got around that by killing processes. I omitted the usb-storage module but a later HW detection step still tried to load it. I had to kill another process. The final installation report HW detection also hung and I had to kill a process. The box rebooted for phase 2 and the boot hung with: Detecting hardware: drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: ctrl urb status -2 receiveddrivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: usb_submit_urb(ctrl) failed I haven't tried install-2.4 yet. John-- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to email@example.com a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact firstname.lastname@example.com


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In size, the vertebr of this enormous sea-serpent exceed those of mosasaurus brumbyi.
This suborder includes mosasaurus and its allies, a group of enormous extinct marine reptiles found in beds of Cretaceous age.
In respect to the Crocodiles, the mosasaurus resembles them in so far as they all belong to the same class of Reptiles.
In the sea swims the mosasaurus; Molluscs, Zoophytes, and other animals peculiar to the period are seen on the shore.


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Bob and Joy Schwabach ON COMPUTERS
Published Sunday September 23, 2012 at 6:00 am
When a 13-year-old relative of ours asked for a copy of Nero video editing, we thought that maybe it wasn't too techie for us after all.
The new Nero 12 makes you feel like a big shot film editor. For example, the program turned a shaky scene of a girl running toward her mother into an impressive slow-motion sequence like a movie. To get that effect, you drag the slow motion icon (it's a little square that says "slow motion") over the video clip. Another icon removes shakiness. You can apply a special effect-like slow motion to just a few seconds of your movie or all of it. If you want to make a 3-D movie, you can do that too.
We could take a movie on our computer and move it to a smartphone, iPad, Kindle Fire or other tablet. But here's where a bit of the techie stuff creeps in. The screen presents you with two choices: "Decode Discs" and "Convert Media Files." Both choices do the same thing, but one does the whole disc and the other just single files.
You can transfer streaming video as well. Anything you see on your computer can be streamed to other devices, such as a Roku player, Google TV, Playstation, etc., as long as your devices are connected to the Internet. You can also download video from the Internet and use it in your movies.
There's still room for improvement to make this thing more user-friendly. For instance, "rotate video" isn't listed in the "help" index. Yet this is pretty basic: Every video we've received recently was shot sideways. It turns out you hover over a video clip and click the "FX" link to get "rotate clockwise."
The standard version of Nero 12 is $99 and the platinum version is $129. Do the free trial first and see what you think.
Fixing computers that have serious problems has become a big business. If you happen to be the one who created the problem in the first place, you are ideally positioned to fix it. Here's how it works:
A pop-up ad appears on your screen and tells you: "Your computer is infected. Click here to clean it." This triggers a program that automatically loads some seriously infected software onto your computer and then charges you to fix it. To protect yourself, what you need is common sense and a slow trigger finger, or a free program like Anti-Malware from Malwarebytes.org.
Anti-Malware has more than 150 million users and adds about a million new ones each month. We have the "pro" version, and it works very well. The nice thing about the pro version is that it protects you in advance, blocking the malware before it hits. New this month is an "enterprise" version for business. The enterprise version can be deployed on each computer in a company.
DavidRumsey.com has more than 34,000 antique maps, including the one that explorers Lewis and Clark made while exploring America from the Mississippi to the Pacific.
Go to the National Geographic website for a huge collection of maps, both old and modern. NASA has great space photos and some galactic maps. Remember, though, as the semanticist Count Alfred Korzybski said: "The map is not the territory."
LD.org is all about learning disabilities. A recent National Center for Learning Disabilities report found that:
•55 percent of Americans wrongly believe that wearing glasses can treat learning disabilities.
•22 percent incorrectly believe learning disabilities can be caused by too much TV or video game time.
•31 percent believe it's all caused by a poor diet. (Who knows? Maybe it is.)
•24 percent believe the cause is childhood vaccinations.
•33 percent feel it's appropriate to ask a job candidate about learning disabilities. (However, it's against the law.)
•43 percent think people with learning disabilities have low IQs, though there seems to be no correlation there.
The new $99 BackupPlus from Seagate holds a terabyte of storage in a drive that can fit in a shirt pocket. It works with both Windows and Mac and you can go back and forth between them. It automatically backs up all your files and the photos and videos you share on Facebook and Flickr.
The whole idea of a terabyte still stuns us. This is technology! A terabyte is a thousand gigabytes; a gigabyte is a thousand megabytes. A megabyte stores around 200,000 words. This column runs once a week and typically uses about a thousand words; so four years of columns would use up just a little more than a megabyte. It's enough to make a poor electron gasp.
The drive uses USB 3.0 or 2.0 connections on a Windows machine or the speedy Thunderbolt and Firewire on a Mac. If you haven't cottoned to the difference between USB 2.0, which has been around for several years now, and the new USB 3.0, it's around three times faster; a 1.2 gigabyte file transfers in 15 seconds.
A "Protect Now" button copies all the files of your Windows computer over to the drive. Another button lets you download all your photos from Facebook. This excited some reviewers, but not us, because a free program, SocialFolders, does the same thing.
We couldn't find a tech support number on Seagate's website or in the manual, but Google comes through. This, by the way, is one of the most important things we have ever had to say to readers about answering questions and finding information — just Google it. If you type "Seagate tech support phone number" in the Google search bar it comes up right away and so does a Facebook support page and "Live Chat."
By the way, this drive did not work when we first plugged it into our computer. We got a message saying, "This drive is corrupted. Would you like to reformat it?" The drive was indeed corrupted, but reformatting it made everything come out all right.


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When YouTube launched their new design back in December 2011, including a new homepage and new channel design, the YouTube community had their reservations (after all, in general people don't love change). But now that the new design has been out for a few months and users are getting used to the new look, YouTube has released some statistics that show that the new YouTube not only looks nice, but it's also effective.
The YouTube team announced yesterday that since the new design launched in December, "daily unique visits to channels have increased by 60 percent" and "daily net subscriptions are up 50 percent." Not too shabby, eh?
Along with this news came the announcement that yesterday the new channel design went live for everyone. If you hadn't updated your channel yet on your own, YouTube has now done it for you, so don't be surprised if you head over to your channel today and things are looking a bit different. You'll have a little bit of setting up to do, as you now have four channel template options to choose from. We've put together a helpful guide to help you get set up with your new YouTube channel design.
The YouTube team also pointed out some new features that have been added to the channel design since it was updated in December:
– A Featured tab has been added to let users display feature content more prominently
– Favorites have become more accessible and are now a customizable part of your channel
– You can now link to your +Page or Google+ Profile directly from your YouTube channel
Have you set up your new YouTube channel yet? Have you noticed a boost in channel visits or subscribers since the new design went live?
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Megan O'Neill is the resident web video enthusiast here at Social Times. Megan covers everything from the latest viral videos to online video news and tips, and has a passion for bizarre, original and revolutionary content and ideas.


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If your Dday is anywhere near your registration date, you're at the very beginning of this nightmare rollercoaster of healing. Buckle up. It's a wild ride.
Check out the Healing Library. Yellow box on the left. Also check out "How to Help Your Spouse Heal from Your Affair". Short read. Packed with info.
There is no magic fix. This doesn't change on 2 weeks, 2 weeks, shoot sometimes 2 years. The "suggested" timeline for healing from infidelity is roughly 2 - 5 years, if there are no new hurts. To be honest, for most people it's closer to 5 years. Not trying to discourage or scare you. Just shooting straight.
Time. Consistency. Patience.
Good luck.
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Supermarkets should give wasted food to the needy
It costs the industry to get rid of its surplus anyway
There was something deeply hypocritical about Tesco's announcement yesterday that it has discovered that a lot of its food goes to waste. Who'd have thought it? It's as if they've just woken up to something that has been blindingly obvious to the rest of us for years.
The plain fact is that supermarkets build waste into the system; they make sure that whenever we go shopping, even late in the evening, there are fresh bread and salads waiting for us . When the shopping day ends, the excess is tossed out of the back door. Meanwhile, buy-one-get-one-free deals inevitably lead to further waste.
Has Matt Simister, Tesco's food director, only just discovered this amazing fact?
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Cassidy Turley, a leading commercial real estate services provider, has named Gerry "Spud" Dick a "Rising Star." One of 24 individuals given the designation… Read More
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Floyd Roland is talking about darkness, and cold, and not just any old cold but minus-30 or -40 degree cold, and not just any old darkness but a darkness that, once it settles over the town of Inuvik, Northwest Territories, in early December, stays there, like a blindfold or a backpack full of lead.
Weighing down an otherwise chipper and sane community of 3,500 souls who, for about 30 days each year, drag themselves out of bed in the morning to head off to work in the dark and cold so they can head home in the dark and cold eight hours later.
"Let's just say the 24-hour darkness can wear on you," says Mr. Roland, Inuvik's mayor, and former premier of the Northwest Territories. "For some of us, from about October, we start to get a little more grumpy because we know the dark is coming. I find myself like an old bear, in the winter dark, when the alarm goes off and I [growl]."
This week, the town is throwing a seven-day celebration of the sun's return, after a full month's absence, with a parade, a dance, and a bonfire.
Grousing about winter is the Canadian way. From Halifax to Vancouver we moan, southerners, in our cushy mega-cities, about our version of the cold and the slush and the slogging through the snow and the slippery driving conditions and diminished daylight hours.
But diminished is nothing compared to disappearing altogether, as the sun does from Inuvik. The flipside for the Land of the Midnight Sun are the Days of the Noontime Darkness and, if you haven't experienced them first hand, you may not want to. Understand that Inuvik residents walk their dogs at 10 a.m. on Christmas morning wearing headlamps and reflective clothing — parkas are now designed with reflective material to address this particular issue — to avoid getting lost or hit by a truck.
"Therapy lamps," to combat Seasonal Affective Disorder — the medical term for the serious winter blues — are not uncommon. The mayor switches his on every morning to steel his spirit as he sips his morning coffee.
The darkness has gotten harder to deal with as I have gotten older
"The darkness has gotten harder to deal with as I have gotten older," he says. "A lot of us who grew up here always took the sun's return as natural, and we didn't do anything for it.
"But 25 years ago the town and people who weren't from here said we can't have a fireworks display in summer — since it is 24-hour daylight, and all you get is a bang and a puff of smoke — so why not do something to mark the return of the sun?"
So they did, and still do, and did again — last weekend — when the sun winked above the horizon mid-afternoon Sunday. To celebrate there was a pancake breakfast, a food fare featuring sampling trays of Arctic char and muskox, a square dance, a snowmobile parade and the showstopper on the Saturday night: a bonfire made of 1,000 wooden pallets and discarded Christmas trees.
Gordon Simms, the deputy fire chief, tossed the first match. Mr. Simms enjoys the weeklong "Sunrise Festival" fuss. But the fuss over winter — and the local dread of the dark — is something he has never understood since moving to the community from St. Anthony, Nfld.
"St. Anthony is right on the ocean and we might get two to three weeks of summer, and by summer, I mean, above 20 celsius a year," he says. "In winter it was minus-40 with the wind chill and we'd never get less than 30 km winds. I laugh at the boys here. I tell them, it's not even cold — the cold in St. Anthony was a dagger through your skin.
"What I find hard to deal with isn't the cold or darkness but the 24 hours of daylight. You wake up, it's daylight, you go to sleep — it's daylight. There is no darkness at all."
Floyd Roland left the darkness this year to spend Christmas in Powell River, B.C. He felt out of place, he says, and oddly sympathetic for us poor schleps in the Canadian south.
"Powell River is located on the Sunshine Coast," he says. "But it's not the Sunshine Coast in the winter. It is grey and drizzling. From the 24th of December to January 1st, I may have seen the sun for four hours.
"But up here, in the darkness, I can jump on my snow machine and go wherever I want."
He can zoom, into the darkness, with a reflective parka on and a headlight showing the way to a horizon, where the sun waits, readying for its return.
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Terra Lycos trims losses
Shares in Spain's Terra Lycos, one of Europe's biggest internet firms, rose 2.3% on news that the company had cut its losses in the second quarter.
Terra Lycos, which is controlled by Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica, unveiled a second-quarter loss of 65m euros ($57m; �40m), 10m euros less than in the first three months of the year.
The firm's revenues came in at 180m euros, up by one-third compared with the second quarter last year.
The revenue figure beat expectations. Earlier in the year, Terra Lycos said second-quarter sales would be 165m-170m euros.
Big business
Terra Lycos is Europe's third-biggest internet service provider, and operates popular search engines and web portals in the Spanish-speaking world and beyond.
The company was formed last year after Telefonica's Terra Networks merged with US-based web portal Lycos in a deal then valued at $12.5bn.
Through a mixture of acquisitions and expansion, Terra Lycos is now operating in 41 countries and 20 languages.
The firm recently announced a push in the US market, but its strategy has been hampered by a plummeting share price.
Terra Lycos's shares have already fallen by one-third this year, after dropping by 80% in 2000.
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However, the leading business body expects the UK economy will grow 1% in 2013, less than its previous estimate of 1.4%.
It warned of the potential for a new "flare-up" in eurozone tensions, which would hold back confidence and keep growth in check.
But a rise in job vacancies and an improvement in business sentiment since its last forecast suggested the economy would avoid another recession and grow 0.3% in the first quarter of this year.
CBI director-general John Cridland said: "We are beginning to see the return of organic growth, with clear signs that firms offering the right products into the right markets are growing sales and expanding.
"Recent business surveys also give grounds for cautious optimism about our forward prospects."
Hopes that Britain will avoid another recession have also been boosted by recent surveys which showed the services sector returned to growth and manufacturing output rose at its fastest pace since September 2011, in January.
The CBI is forecasting that inflation will edge higher until mid-2013, but will fall back in the second half of the year, and will be close to the Bank of England's 2% target throughout 2014.
On Tuesday, official data showed the UK consumer price inflation had remained unchanged at 2.7% for the fourth consecutive month.
On another positive note, it said UK exports will be stronger this year, with the global economy likely to grow faster as growth in China picks up and the US economy continues its "relatively solid, if unspectacular recovery".
But conditions will still be difficult for households in 2013, given weak growth in household spending power and unemployment at around 7.8%.
It believes unemployment levels are unlikely to change significantly over the forecast period, at 2.5 and 2.42 million in 2013 and 2014 respectively.
Next year, the CBI is expecting growth of 2%, unchanged from its November forecast, whilst quarter-on-quarter growth is expected to be modest at around 0.5-0.6%.


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The notion of playing professional soccer until age 38 hardly seemed plausible to Brian McBride.
"Someone asked me how long I was thinking of playing when I was 30 and I said that 35 would be awesome," said McBride, who is retiring from Major League Soccer at the end of the season. "To make it this long has been a good surprise."
After training with the Chicago Fire ahead of his final home game, Saturday against visiting D.C. United, McBride chatted with reporters via conference call Friday. McBride was a charter member of M.L.S. and was the first player selected over all, by the Columbus Crew, as the new league prepared for its first season in 1996.
After several seasons in M.L.S. and a couple of loans to English teams (Preston North End and Everton), McBride landed a full-time gig with Fulham, in London and in the Premier League. He became the rarest of Americans abroad — a bona fide threat at striker to score goals. That was unlike so many of his compatriots who jumped the Atlantic, mostly goalkeepers and defensive role players.
"I think a lot has changed and that the stigma that goes with being and an American," he said. "With soccer being so worldly, you go in and show what you can do and you'll get respect. It doesn't matter where you're from. There were plenty of times at Fulham where I was not as sharp as I needed to be, but it's a matter of staying focused. It wasn't a not a revelation, as you said, but just putting work in and doing things right so your teammates respect you."
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The 1970s brought us the happy face and around that time, people began saying to one another: "Have a nice day."
And nice is, well, nice.
But what about having a great day? One of those days where things go so right, when we accomplish something that makes us feel really good about ourselves, and we connect with people in meaningful ways. A great day is a day we experience joy.
Of course, not every day can be a great day, but the following 10 tips can transform what might be an ordinary day into something that verges on great:
1. Start off with a plan.
Ask yourself what one thing you can do that will build toward creating a great day.
I often encourage my clients to write down the five things they want to accomplish the next day.
By completing this list the night before, allows your brain to focus. Then, the day will go smoothly.
2. Be mindful.
Throughout the day, be present in all that you do.
3. Prioritize.
Do the most important things first. Many times this may be tackling the least favorite item first so it gets done.
4. Spend time with those you love.
If you can't be together in person, call or write a letter or email. Connect.
5. Lighten up!
Find time to play and enjoy yourself.
What is it that you feel a little "wicked" about taking time to do?
This is exactly what you need to do. Take that very important time to reward yourself for just being you.
6. Give yourself something nice.
Eat something you love for lunch. Gift yourself with a bunch of flowers or a massage. Take a walk in the sun.
7. Learn something new.
That new thing could be read a couple chapters in a book of value, taking a painting class, attending a new exercise group.
8. Complete one thing.
Do something you've been meaning to do, finish a project or a task.
Completing one thing can be breaking it down into bite size chunks. Hugh projects can be so overwhelming that it stops you before you even get started. Completing one part of the overall project can be such a great step.
9. Do something good, or give something to someone, anonymously.
10. Be, instead of Do.
Allow yourself time without needing to fill it. Be a human Be-ing, rather than a human Do-ing.
Have a Great Day!
Tyler resident Joyce Buford is a life coach and founder and CEO of SecondWind Speaking, Training and Coaching.


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