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Shell fired by Gaza terrorists hits Eshkol Regional Council; man evacuated to hospital with light injuries
Ynet reporters
Published: 12.09.10, 00:00 / Israel News
Ynet reporters
An Israeli man sustained light wounds Wednesday night when a mortar fired from northern Gaza exploded in the western Negev's Eshkol Regional Council.
A resident living in one of the communities hit by the mortar shells said: "We were in the middle of watching 'Big Brother' when suddenly the mortar shells hit. We couldn't tell where they'd hit exactly so we starting making phone calls. That's when we realized the head of security was injured. Now the entire community is on lockdown, the residents are in fortified rooms. We're not too stirred up by all of this but on the other had we're not taking this lightly, we know it's dangerous. No one expected the shooting will end, we can still hear shots."
Head of the Eshkol Regional Council Chaim Yalin said: "The shooting doesn't surprise anyone. With all the peace and quiet the government promises Palestinian communities – this is what we get."
Earlier Wednesday, a mortar fired from Gaza landed near a kibbutz in the western Negev, damaging a home. There were no reports of injury.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi told paratroopers from the 202nd Battalion on Wednesday that "the situation in Gaza is volatile these days."
"We've witnessed a deterioration and the planting of numerous bombs along the border," he said. "There will be more incidents here; the fighting near the security fence will continue and we must be prepared, perhaps to operate on a broader level.
"The next round (of fighting) will be extensive and it should end in such a way where there is no doubt as to which side triumphed," the army chief told the soldiers.
In the early hours of Wednesday morning Israeli aircraft bombed
a weapons cache and an arms smuggling tunnel in south Gaza. The army said direct hits were identified. There were no reports of injuries in the strike.
The army explained that the attack was a response to the firing of rockets and mortar shells into Israel in the past two weeks, saying it viewed Hamas as solely responsible for the situation in Gaza.
Ilana Curiel and Hanan Greenberg contributed to the report


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I have a PS script that kicks off every 5 minutes to check for newly dropped folders and move them. Problem is that sometimes items within the folder are still being written to, in which case the script errors with:
Move-Item : The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. [Move-Item], IOException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MoveDirectoryItemIOError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.MoveItemCommand
I've tried the following try/catch block but it still errors on the same "Move-Item" line. Any thoughts to what I'm doing wrong here?
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Title: What you know about the Bermuda Triangle?
The basis of this lesson is for students to form a connection between the importance of geometry as it relates to the Bermuda Triangle. Students should think about the geographical locations and how they form a particular type of triangle. Within the triangle exists a relationship between the angles and the length of the sides. As the students reflect prior concepts and skills should come to mind to help them solve the problem. The ideas presented here can be used as the final lesson in a unit on triangles to summarize all that students have learned. Alternatively, the main problem from this lesson could be used as a final assessment activity for a unit on triangles.
This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.
Standard(s): [MA2015] GEO (9-12) 10: Prove theorems about triangles. Theorems include measures of interior angles of a triangle sum to 180o, base angles of isosceles triangles are congruent, the segment joining midpoints of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side and half the length, and the medians of a triangle meet at a point. [G-CO10]
Title: Quadrilaterals
This is an inquiry lesson used to review Algebra 1 objectives by applying them to geometry concepts. Students explore the properties of quadrilaterals and classify them by definition. This lesson can be use in geometry classes. Students in geometry classes can apply theorems and definitions of quadrilaterals rather than as an inquiry lesson.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science, GEMS Project funded by the Malone Family Foundation.
Standard(s): [MA2015] GEO (9-12) 1: Know precise definitions of angle, circle, perpendicular line, parallel line, and line segment based on the undefined notions of point, line, distance along a line, and distance around a circular arc. [G-CO1]
Title: Location, Location, Location
In this Illuminations lesson, students use a dynamic geometry applet to investigate the relationship between the distances from a point inside a regular polygon to each side. In addition, there are links to online activity sheets and other related resources.
Standard(s): [MA2015] GEO (9-12) 39: Use geometric shapes, their measures, and their properties to describe objects (e.g., modeling a tree trunk or a human torso as a cylinder).* [G-MG1]
Title: Pinwheel
In this Illuminations lesson, students create parallelograms from square sheets of paper and connect them to form an octagon. During the construction, students consider angle measures, segment lengths, and areas in terms of the original square. At the end of the lesson, the octagon is transformed into a pinwheel, and students discover a surprising result. There is also a link to a related activity sheet.
Standard(s): [MA2015] GEO (9-12) 34: Determine areas and perimeters of regular polygons, including inscribed or circumscribed polygons, given the coordinates of vertices or other characteristics. (Alabama)
Title: Discovering Pick's Theorem
This reproducible worksheet, from an Illuminations lesson, leads students through an investigation of Pick's Theorem using geoboards.
Standard(s): [MA2015] ALC (9-12) 11: Use ratios of perimeters, areas, and volumes of similar figures to solve applied problems. (Alabama)


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VINTAGE BATMAN COMIC BOOK!! FEB 1965 No. 169
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Greetings from p6321955! Up for auction this week is a fine original Batman comic book. This is issue number 169 from February 1965 by DC Comics, "Partners in Plunder" issue. The condition of this comic book is quite exceptional for a used book! The colors are still vibrant and the paper is supple. The staples are not rusted but t is a bit of a crease at the upper staple. The outside corners are still quite sharp and the spine is only very slightly worn. (this comic book was graded by the auction house, w I bought it, using the Overstreet Standards) This comic book has been kept in a sealed plastic sleeve with a cardboard insert. PAYMENT TERMS: Payment is expected within 7 days of the end of the auction unless other arrangements have been made. Insurance (not available on Air Letter Post shipments) is highly recommended as I will not be responsible for lost, stolen or damaged articles. "Buy It Now" is NOT an option on any of my auctions, please don't ask! For everyone, especially those who are new to my auctions: The items I list are from auctions and estate sales. I do clean things up before I list them but t is no telling what lingering odors will crop up after the item is packaged for shipment. If you are terribly allergic to smoke, pet dander, musty scents, then you should take this into consideration before bidding. I cannot guarantee that any item has come from a smoke-free/pet-free home! (I am very sensitive to musty odors and have stopped buying ephemera for this reason!) I am not an expert in this items field nor am I a professional photographer. I describe the item to the best of my abilities and try to take good pictures. Please feel free to email any questions including requests for additional pictures. I will do my best to help and provide you with what you need to bid. With that said, this item is sold "as is" with no warranties. I use "Shipping Calculator" to determine the fairest and most accurate shipping cost. I have added, depending on item size and weight, to this shipping cost to cover packing material, labeling and labor. I package the items I sell as if I am sending a piece of fragile china to my mother, 600 miles away, to insure that it arrives in the same condition as when it left In light of that, UPS and Economy Letter/Parcel Post are not an option unless the package is too large to go any other way. If you are bidding on more than one of my auctions and the auctions end within a week of each other, I will happily combine orders to save on shipping and handling costs. I will NOT be responsible for items lost in shipping. I do expect payment within 7 days of the auction's end. With all that said and done....most importantly......enjoy!!! p6321955


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The Castles we challenged you to make this month have been built and its time to vote on the one you think deserve to win this months challenge.
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CORNELIUS – Ryan Wydra is a proven tennis winner in singles and doubles.
This season, as a junior at Hough High, he won the singles championship in the I-MECK 4A conference.
Last year, he teamed with Collin Black to win the conference doubles title (players must choose to play singles or doubles in the postseason). As a freshman in 2011, Wydra won the conference singles championship.
He is the Herald Weekly Boys Tennis Player of the Year.
Bad news for opponents: Wydra has one year remaining as a Husky.
"I like the accountability of playing singles," he said. "I like that aspect. What you put into it correlates to the success you get out of it."
Wydra was Hough's No. 1 singles player all season. He roared through the I-MECK 4A conference tournament, and beat Lake Norman High's Greg Dow 6-0, 6-1 in the championship match. Wydra didn't lose a match in the regular season.
He advanced to the finals at the N.C. 4A West Regional. At the state tournament, Wydra won his first-round match before being eliminated in the second round.
In the team aspect of tennis, Wydra was doubly valuable. He helped the Huskies finish second in the I-MECK 4A conference (to Lake Norman) and qualify for the N.C. 4A dual team playoffs. Wydra teamed with his brother, Sean, a freshman, to be Hough's No. 1 doubles team during the regular season.
"Ryan's game has a lot of topspin and he has gained experience through the year to methodically set up the point," Hough coach Alice Hansen said. "He has an awesome kick serve, but he also can change up his serve much like a pitcher changes up each pitch."
"Ryan moves fluidly on the court. Since playing for me at Hough I have watched his game become more technically correct and his physical condition has greatly improved. But what I am most impressed with is he's mentally become tougher. So he has matured both physically and emotionally and to play tennis well you need both of those traits."


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Shruti asks,
I wanted to ask, that I am a gym regular, I've been working out good for the last 4 months (watched diet too), but I haven't seen any change. Though I did lose weight easily before that, seems I have hit a plateau. Also I don't feel like going going to the gym anymore (lack of motivation), hence, I am considering getting a personal trainer.
Given that personal trainers are so expensive and I'll be shelling a good chunk of my paycheck on him/her, I wanted to ask if getting one is worth it? Would be great if you can share from your personal experience, other MissFit members/readers, also please share.


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I can't believe the weekend is almost over. Nothing seriously exciting has happened in the last week. We have all been recovering from a little cold. McRuger has a bone spur in his heel that has been bothering him. Cadet has had a few rough days of dysregulation. But, all-in-all, things have been normal.
I heard from MissS once more earlier in the week. It was a simple text saying: "I promise to take care of babygirl". I mailed off the baby clothes and supplies to MissS, and it felt good to get that taken care of. Our lawyers have been returning various deposits, and it is really wonderful not to have to fight for it.
Our FBI fingerprints expired recently and so McRuger and I made the trip to get those re-done, which prompted a conversation about home study updates and what comes next. Which culminated in a dinner of pho and not much progress on "what happens next"…besides just more waiting.
In this middle of this week, I got an e-mail from Lawyers A and B. They wanted to extend their gratitude about how "gracefully" we've "handled" the adoption falling through. I'm not sure what they were expecting….as if tears, angry phone calls, or threats would change anything. MissS decided to parent her child. While I can be disappointed, I certainly don't have the right to be angry about anything. The e-mail went on to say that they are excited about the future and what it holds for us.
To be honest with you, this week has been hard. Cadet has been under the weather, which has lead to some dysregulation for Cadet. Cadet's dysregulation episodes are tough to handle sometimes. We actually had to cancel one of his speech therapy sessions because he wasn't in a good space. I've spent a lot of time snuggling with him, calming him, and re-directing his energy. I think he was pretty upset with my trips to State X and being gone so long. His OT and I agree that it will probably take some time to get him back to normal.
However, with him being sick (trip to the doctor tomorrow), it will take him even longer to feel normal…sigh….
We've been watching some of the Olympics, which has been lovely. Even though McRuger isn't a huge fan, I have fond memories from childhood and college of watching the games. So far watching the ice skating team competition was pretty amazing! Although the biathlons, slope style, and skiathalon have been cool to watch!
In writing news, I'm making progress on my romance novel. I've sent out a few chapters to three people at this point. I've had some good and constructive feedback. It was scary to put myself out there, but I've been encouraged by the response. I've made McRuger read it a few times, and even he was impressed! So the work continues.
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The Witches of Oz
The Witches of Oz follows the exploits of the grown Dorothy Gale, now a successful children's book author, as she moves from Kansas to present day New York City. Dorothy quickly learns that her popular books are based on repressed childhood memories, and that the wonders of Oz are very, very real. When the Wicked Witch of the West shows up in Times Square, Dorothy must find the inner courage to stop her.
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Young Einsteins
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The unnamed hospital in City Hall, Algonquin, Liberty City is a hospital featured in Grand Theft Auto IV (including Episodes from Liberty City) and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.
Located on a sloped lot bordered by Liberty Lane, Emerald Street and Union Drive West, the City Hall hospital is based within a massive skyscraper that forms part of the district's skyline around City Hall's delta-shaped park. The hospital serves as a respawn point for the player if they die the nearest to the hospital (only after the player unlocks Algonquin), in southern Algonquin.
The eastern and southern sides of the building give no indication as to the nature of the building, while the northwestern side of the building houses a parking lot containing Ambulances and back entrances into the hospital. Because of this, the hospital could sometimes be confused as a regular skyscraper when only viewed on the eastern and southern sides.


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Rumored work at Congo Square forced the second annual Congo Square Festival to be moved to Bayou St. John in Mid-City this year.
Saturday was a great day to be outside and an even greater day to see some great music and Mardi Gras Indians.
The day started with a drum circle led by Alfred "Uganda" Roberts.
I thought it was pretty clever that most of the music highlighted on Saturday was bounce music and DJs. Names like Big Freeda and Sissy Noby, D.J. Jubilee, Fifth Ward Weeble, Partners In Crime and Miss Tee, Dizzy with DJ Raj Smoove, to name a few.
Donald Harrison Jr. with special guests Hollywood, Ses 45, Truth Universal and Jimi Clever showed the future of hip hop with a live band.
A craft section set up with locals. Ernie K-doe was out in his white suit selling hot sauce.
Got to see Cupid perform the Cupid Shuffle with the To Be Continued Brass Band closing out the long day on the bayou.
Started off the day with the Family Ties Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs 2nd line parade.
After a bar-b-cue pork chop sandwich (with the bone) from Mr. Lester I checked out the start of the second line. Saw Kermit Ruffins had the same idea of catching the start before heading to Bayou St. John where he is scheduled to play at 5 o'clock.
Headed back to the bayou for a little bit more of the Congo Square Festival. After a bowl of red beans, I decided to leave early since I had drive to Houston.
Not a bad weekend.
On a side note, I went to check the work that was being done. All I saw was a homeless man sleeping on a bench and barricades around a manhole cover. Let's hope that for the third year of the festival we can get it back to where it belongs.
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This is a great comfort food soup. The summery taste of home grown sweet corn really pops out. I substituted lean ham for the bacon, and I added some thinly sliced baby carrots. I would definitely make this again. It actually tasted better to me left over and reheated the next day.
This is an excellent recipe. This one will be in my rotation for sure.
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A lot can change in a decade. For Vanessa Carlton that's meant transforming from a bubbly pop princess into a soulful songstress. Although Carlton's newest album doesn't come out until early 2014, her latest single, "I'll Wait For You," gives listeners a taste of what's to come. Carlton's voice is ethereal, yet haunting—a welcome departure from the singer's pop roots. Thu 8 p.m.


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Lesson 1 - Puzzle (Level 3)
Complete the puzzle by clicking on individual pieces then dragging them to the correct location.
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The increase in heroin use has led to a growing number of grandparents raising their grandchildren, according to The New York Times.The parents of these children are dead, in jail...Read more
While economic downturns have been linked previously to increased suicide risk in the United States, new research from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs sheds light on the role...Read more
Congress is focusing on expanding treatment for opioid addiction instead of restricting access to painkillers in its efforts to address the opioid epidemic, The New York Times reports.Legislators seem to...Read more
Last year 15 percent of American adults smoked, down from 17 percent in 2014, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The decrease was the...Read more
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Inked Girls: Carolina Torres
Myself in a sentence: I believe I am a very outgoing person with a bubbly personality, I'm caring and supportive, I'm a very hard worker, I love exploring and learning new things, I always give 1000% no matter what.
Occupation: Document Control Staff
Hometown: Portland
The design and themes of my tattoos: lettering,skulls,memorial,stars,chinese,religious
My favorite tattoo and the story behind it: my favorite tattoo has to be the portraits on my right arm. They are my grandfather and my mothers face who is no longer living. I decided to get there faces on me so I can look at them and have them with me not only spiritually but visually , they were like my parents that is why this tattoo has so much meaning to me.
My next tattoo: my next tattoo will be my father's portrait, simply because he has always been so supportive and has never doubted me , he is the only man in my heart.


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Rank and organization: Captain, Company A, 140th Pennsylvania Infantry.
Place and date: At Gettysburg, Pa., 2 July 1863; At Reams Station, Va.,
25 August 1864.
Entered service at: ?.
Birth: Green County, Pa. Date
of issue: 5 April 1898.
Citation: While a sergeant and retiring with his
company before the rapid advance of the enemy at Gettysburg, he and a companion
stopped and carried to a place of safety a wounded and helpless comrade;
in this act both he and his companion were severely wounded. A year later,
at Reams Station, Va., while commanding a skirmish line, voluntarily assisted
in checking a flank movement of the enemy, and while so doing was severely
wounded, suffering the loss of an arm.
This data was extracted from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. Senate, Medal of Honor Recipients: 1863-1973 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1973)


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Leap second: Linux can freeze
The leap second that was inserted on Saturday night can cause permanent high CPU loads on Linux computers. Among other examples, the behaviour is documented in the blog of the Mozilla Foundation, where strange peak loads on one Mozilla server were observed from the time the leap second was added. The developers said that the problem is easily solved by resetting the date or rebooting the system.
Leap second: Linux can freeze - The H Open: News and Features


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Top 10 Hottest Reality TV Men: David Cook
David Cook rocked his way to the top on last season's American Idol and proved to be on of the most innovative artists on the show to date. He's gone on to be one of the most successful idols ever and that combined with his rugged good looks have landed him a spot on our list.
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Thor Begins Swinging His Hammer
By Josh Tyler 2010-01-12 00:21:30 comments
Marvel Studios announced today that Thor has begun principal photography. I guess the loss of Stuart Townsend wasnt exactly a crushing blow. If only theyd replaced him with Viggo Mortensen.
Nearly as hilarious as Townsends last-minute departure from yet another movie is the one-liner delivered by Dark Horizons head honcho Garth Franklin while covering this same story on Twitter: Thor Begins Principal Photography - sadly no pics of Portman 'feeling the thunder' as it were. If only.
Heres the full, official press release from Marvel announcing the start of most marginally anticipated upcoming superhero movie:
Marvel Studios has commenced principal photography on the highly anticipated feature film THOR directed by Kenneth Branagh. In THOR, Chris Hemsworth portrays the title character with Tom Hiddleston in the role of Thors brother Loki, and Natalie Portman as Jane Foster. Additionally, the studio has cast Academy Award® winning actor Anthony Hopkins as Odin, Renee Russo as Frigga, Ray Stevenson as Volstagg, Tadanobu Asano as Hogun, Josh Dallas as Fandral, Jaimie Alexander as Sif, Idris Elba as Heimdall, as well as Colm Feore, Kat Dennings and award-winning actor Stellan Skarsgård. The film is slated for release in theatres domestically on May 6, 2011 via Paramount Pictures which will also release the film on a worldwide basis.
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So I am very inexperienced in the biking world (in fact, just learned a little less than a year ago) and I just bought my first bike rack. I have a woman's bike with a sloping bar, so when I mount it, it looks sorta odd. I want to know if thats how its suppose to be.
There's w/o the bike so you have an idea of how the bike rack is on its own...
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Oh this is going to be good. Timmy sounds like my first dungeon master. (I was 14 at the time, prior to that I was always the DM)
Okay, this month is purely for laughs. i'm not trying to win it, i just want to have a good time and myabe make a few folks grin. i'll let the dungeon master who is creating the map take the reigns.
My name is Timmy, and i'm 13 years old. i just got the basic set, and i want to be the DM. so i found these random dungeon tables and went about trying to make them work. i think it will be a small dungeon because i only want a few encounters. i know one of them is going to be a spider lair because i have a tarantula and i like spiders because spiders rock! then i want a cave with a elf in it because il ike elfs too.
then i'm going to have a few maze like passages and lots of secret doors because my players always look for them and i want to have a lot. and i want some in the maze because i like mazes too.
and these mazes were made by ant monsters too. not just big ants, but ants with intelligence. okay, so that's it. i'll start on the map tomorrow.
Oh this is going to be good. Timmy sounds like my first dungeon master. (I was 14 at the time, prior to that I was always the DM)
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So this is my dungeon. i rolled on the random charts in the old Dungeon Master Guide my uncle JP gave me. i like this book better than the edition i have. this one has a lot more tables and charts but its hard to read because the type is so small. but the artifacts and all the really cool magic items are neat. and the picture on the cover is kewl. it even has a dungeon map but it only describes the first three rooms so thats not really helpful. and they have a spider in that one too. and thats neat because i like spiders.
anyway, i rolled up this dungeon and drew it in pencil and then traced over it. i like to make lots of notes on my map to make sure i don't forget anything. so if it is a little hard to read that's my fault.
i looked at some of my uncles old maps and saw he did the cross hatching around the edges so i decided to do the same thing. i think it looks neat so i'll do that on all my maps from now on.
since the random rolls make it look wierd i figured the caves were built by the formian workers in room 5 and then somebody came and put up the doors later. maybe Helvar the Elf in room 1.
i hope you like it. i worked all day on it.
Okay, TM, you already won one Challenge--let the rest of us have a chance, will ya?
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So hi Timmy,
I've brought my character for today's game.
*adjust glasses; sniff*
And some empty sheet I create with daddy new commodore 64 computer, in case someone forgot his sheet.
*He he he (my dad's better than yours)*
I'm ready to kill some dragon or demon bug with my Robin Hood char.
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okay Alu, i'll take your character but you have to explain to me why you have a 16 comeliness and a 5 charisma. there's a negative penalty of 3 for your charisma, so if you rolled a 19 on 3 dice, i would like to know how this happened.
oh, and i'll let you adjust your hit points back up to full. if you are going into my dungeon, you're going to need it. bwa ha! find some other players and you're on. we need a wizard and a thief for the secret doors and traps. and maybe a cleric would do. i don't have any undead in the dungeon but you might need it for healing.
and change your character's name. i think legolas would be better. you would end up knowing the king aragorn in my campaign world. my sister wants to play a dwarf thief with a short bow. she hasn't played ever, so i'm going to be teaching her.
i guess i'll have to bring in a wizard, theodorus the wise, my 18th level character i made last week. he rocks. he'll help you fight the bad guys in this map.
i only have a couple of miniatures that my uncle gave me so your character will probably be represented by the yellow sorry game piece. and i don't have dice. i just have chits in a plastic cup my mom gave me.
(anyone remember the days of chits?.....)
don't worry don. if i win i'll be surprised. there's so many others that are so much better. i can't wait to see all the entries. this one is going to be a tight race. there's so many out there that are better than mine. yes, i'll be honored if i win, but come on.... i've got nothing on some of the others. i probably won't even vote for myself, the others are just that good.
Holy carnie corn, Alu--that was a freaking riot (and tm's response only iced the cake!) hahahahaa
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Back again,
I made some changes to Lego(tm) Last:
- first I let him sleep at an inn to get is HP back.
- second in town he saw a little person call Tassleoff of something like that, who sold him is +2 dagger for 5 gp + the map of our last dungeon.
- third I readjust the THAC0 for the sling so it use the Dex attack no-bonus.
- Fourth, You should remember that elves got +2 to comeliness due to sharp magical look and their funny hears.
Lastly, daddy doesnt want me to use is computer again this week (a little bit of jus on it, so what...).
So you will have to do your sis char and the other player from the guild will have to take 10 minutes before the game to redo their heroes.
Hope to see them soon in case there is some errors. Did U call Pyrou & ana, to come and play, since they talked to you about this senario.
Aru jr.
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Tennessee has a favorable schedule against both the run and the pass. They have nine above-average run matches with only three tough games – CAR and HOU (X 2). On the passing side, the Titans face four top passing teams – ATL, NO, and IND (X 2). They have 10 games against below-average passing teams.
The Titans allowed the second-most rushing yards (2,195) with 17 rushing TDs. Teams gained 4.3 yards per rush, which is about the league average. Their lack of success against the run game was due to the most rushing attempts per game allowed (32.2).
Tennessee has one elite defensive end – Jurrell Casey. He has played well over the last two years, which has resulted in 16 sacks, 22 QB hits, and 67 hurries with neutral value against the run. The nose tackle position is wide open with Sammie Lee Hill, Al Woods, and Angelo Blackson competing for the job. I don't think any these players will offer an impact. DE Ropati Pitoilua is coming off his best season defending the run with no value in the pass rush. Pitoilua was signed as undrafted free agent in 2008.
Their top linebacker is Derrick Morgan who was drafted in the first round in 2010. His strength is rushing the QB (seven QB sacks, eight QB hits, and 34 QB hurries). They have two weak middle linebackers – Wesley Woodyard and Avery Williamson. Both players offer below average skills. The best upside at the position will come from LB Zack Brown (second round in 2012) and LB Zaviar Gooden (third round in 2013). LB Brian Orakpo will offer plus value rushing the QB with talent stopping the run game.
Last year Tennessee had 39 sacks, which was the league average total. They allowed 28 passing TDs with 12 INTs with league average passing yards allowed (3,773).
Jason McCourty is their top cornerback, but he allowed the second-most receiving yards (1,041) in 2014 with three TDs and three INTs. In addition, CB Perrish Cox finished ninth in passing yards allowed (830) with three TDs and five INTs. S Da'Norris Searcy played well in both run support and pass coverage.
Overall, this defense has three strong players and two CBs with more upside that can place more pressure on the QB. They have a chance to be league average against the run if their offense can keep the defense off the field. I see them as a value backup fantasy defense with upside in the right matchups.
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http://www.infinality.net/blog/infinali ... e-patches/
Also did a style update on the main site, to make it have a more similar look to this forum. Please create a new post if you run into a problem for which another post doesn't already exist.
Here is the Changelog, which is also at the top of the patch.
Changes for 2011-11-17:
- Added a post-render, pre-lcd-filter filter that attempts to duplicate windows
sharpness / graininess. Controlled by
- Added a fringe filter, intended mostly for autohint (but still effective
for certain cases of TT hinting). This attempts to remove gray fringes that
sometimes occur on horizontal stems and angled serifs and doodads
(Times, Segoe '1', etc.)
- Added a grayscale filter.
- Added brightness/contrast filter.
- Substantial improvements in the stem alignment algorithm! Wow!
- Stem alignment now also happens on grayscale antialiased fonts (rgba=none).
Fixes / Tweaks:
- Changes inside of local.conf, which are documented there.
- Removed an artificial shift of 1/8 pixel to the right on stem aligned glyphs
which should result in sharper looking alignment.
- Added XFT_SETTINGS into infinality-settings.sh. This means it will require
less configuration on the end-user side.
- Fixed code to not touch bold, thin, narrow or italic faces for scale or
alignment (until they can be properly accounted for).
- Added -lm dependency to the code again. (It seems to sneak off now and then)
- Changed autohinter horizontal stem stem snapping from on/off to use a value
between 0 and 100.
- Functions getenv() and system() were crashing evince in _lcd_stem_align()
at odd times. A workaround has been put in place.
- Moved _lcd_stem_align and all other filters into ftsmooth.c, which is a better place.
- Use malloc() in _lcd_stem_align for allocating structs and arrays of structs
instead of what I learned in C++ class 10+ years ago. Should prevent abiword
from crashing with large pt sizes like 3000. (A workaround has been put
in place to automatically skip alignment on any ppem > 100. This will
prevent the crashes until the real solution can be figured out.)
- Fix some compiler warnings. Some are still present.
- Added "m" control to alignment algorithm. This will cause all stems to m
(or other 3-pronged glyphs) to get aligned to pixels. It still needs a bit
of work, as it makes the best looking glyph size change. This is because
the glyph now needs to snap stems to only even or odd pixels, not single ones.
- Added rules to allow "compatible widths" (i.e. widths if the font were being
bitmap TT hinted) on a glyph by glyph basis and tweaked certain fonts like
arial, verdana, times new roman, segoe ui, and trebuchet to use them.
- Don't stem align anything below 9 ppem because it is not consistently good.
- When doing stem alignment, automatically align stems to center of pixel or
start of pixel when necessary. When horizontal stems start snapping to 2 px,
so should the vertical ones in order for it to look nice.
- A Verdana 12 hack to make it render more like Windows. This notoriously
poor looking ppem now looks as good as Verdana 13 without needing fontconfig
- Courier New now looks good, and possibly better than Windows rendering, with
TT or autohint rendering. By the way, the hinters of Courier New should
either be commended or executed.
- Improvements in overshoot artifact and fringe correction- Freesans at large
ppem looks nice now. Overshoots on letters like 6, g, s, 3, etc. will
now be rounded to integer pixels.
- Wrap all infinality code within a macro that is set in ftoption.h:
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fontconfig matrix (they SUCK at it... *cough* Chrome *cough*).
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08/08/2012, Indian Ocean
My big project for today was cutting a hole in the wood work to install a new switch panel for some lights in the cockpit area. Now we can switch on the gas grill light and the, soon to be fabricated , wind vane light. At our next stop Ill add a lazarette light over the steering gear so we can see how all of that is working without the need of a flashlight.
Shawn did some more laundry and cleaned up the cabin. I had already cleaned up the sawdust in the pilot house and in the process of doing so discovered that our vacuum cleaner is dead. It was a DeWalt shop vac that has given us good service. I bought it during the outfitting stage of this adventure before we left the states. I was going through a period when I was cutting a lot of holes in the boat and making lots of saw dust.
It was working fine when we left so we brought it with us even though it took up a lot more space than we wanted. So, as I said to Shawn today, "We have come into some new storage space". We have to be sure to fill the space before we leave or stuff will be shifting all over the place as the boat rolls.
Back when my brother Jim was accumulating our purchases for the care package he mailed to Darwin I started looking a smaller vacuums on Amazon.com and was quickly bewildered by all the choices and by trying to keep the reviews straight. I got so distracted by the shopping process that I never ordered anything.
A lot of the rechargable ones got good reviews but we need one that recharges of 110 volts since that is the AC power we have on the boat. So buying a rechargeable one here in Oz is not an option for us.
I also read a couple of good reviews for 12 volt dust buster sorts of appliances but I had a couple of those in the past and they all behaved like they had asthma.
But our friend Brian and Claudia on Skylight had a 12v shop vac that Claudia credited with the immaculate condition of their boat. So Im back in vacuum cleaner shopping mode and will listen to and appreciate any advice.
Unfortunately cheaper appliances do not tend to come with multi voltage chargers. I have had the same problem with electric screwdrivers. I suppose that when a manufacturer is working on products where pennies count the cheapest power supply possible for every market is the right choice.
Shawn went snorkeling today and said the clarity was a lot better since the phosphate loading had been stopped for a couple of days.
We took the dingy ashore for hot showers at the harbor masters office building.
That was our big adventure for the day. Nobody cleans the mens room on the weekend and some kids must have had a wet TP fight in there. It was a mess, not really dirty, just a mess We also had to chase a crab out of the shower. I hope it was not one of the endangered ones. It was actually very beautiful. The water was hot which made up for a lot of the shortcomings.
This afternoon the Navy got on the VHF and announced that they were having live fire practice not too far from the island. Now there is a navy warship doing doughnuts outside of flying fish cove so I guess they are giving driving lessons to someone. \ There was another load of refugees brought in this morinng. They were on one of the Customs Service boats named Triton. We had run into triton at Ashmore reef where they were donating some wraps to the cook on the Ashmore Guardian. Now they are out here rounding up refugees.
They had built a shack on the foredeck on the boat (ship?) and there was an awning outside the shack. The refugees were standing under the awning. There were probably only about 30 of them (only one bus on the pier to transport them after they were landed). They brought the Triton right into the cove and off loaded the refugees into tenders to get them ashore.
Tomorrow we should be able to use the internet again. We also need to get fuel and a few groceries. Our plan is to take care of those chores tomorrow and them take it easy on Tuesday and depart on Wednesday.
08/08/2012, Indian Ocean
Between yesterday and today we have pretty will handled all our boat projects here at Christmas Island.
This morning I finished putting locktite on all the threaded connections in the wind vane attachment system and Shawn got another batch of laundry done and dried.
We replaced the dacron control line for the wind vane with some spectra line I bought in Darwin. That turned out to be a lot more of a project than I anticipated. There are a couple of small holes the line has to pass through and the spectra was a lot harder to get through the holes. There are two holes in the cockpit where the control lines pass below deck. For obvious reasons we want that to be a reasonably tight fit. The other place is where the lines must pass through some holes in a stainless steel quadrant on the wind vane. In both cases the spectra line as a lot harder to work with.
Maybe a diversion is in order to explain why we want to use spectra line in the first place.
The control lines from the wind vane take the entire load of the steering efford (and probably a lot more at times) and even the little bit of stretch that dacron has can make the steering effort sloppier than we would like. Spectra is a high tech line that has very little stretch. It's also a lot stronger than dacron but that is not really an issue for this application where the size of the line we use has more to do with what is easy on our hands that the strength required.
Anyway, the problem we encountered was that spectra line does not behave the same way as dacron line when cut with a hot knife. Dacron melts as its cut and the outer cover of braided dacron fuses with the inner core of more coarsely braided dacron so the cover does not slip on the core. When I cut the spectra line with a hot knife both the spectra inner core and the dacron outer cover cut just fine but they dont fuse together so the cover is free to slip back along the core.
When we tried to push the spectra lline through the tight spots the core would slip through and the cover would remain behind.
There may be a more sophisticated work around for the problem but without internet access I came up with a solution that worked for us today. After I cut the line I took out my handy speedy stitcher and sewed the cover to the spectra core. Then I took the thread through the end of the spectra line and used it as a messenger line to pull the spectral line through the tight spots. Taking a file to the holes in the cockpit also helped.
So a project that I expected to take half an hour took two hours. But it's done. The new blue spectral line looks very pretty and clean compared with the old dacron line it replaced.
The whole effort was made a lot easier because Shawn was able to get down in among the steering machinery and thread the line through a few places that are very hard for me to reach.
Everything looks nice from below decks but the proof will be in the steering on the next leg of our Indian Ocean Adventure.
Once we were finished with the wind vane project we got to put all the plastic boxes of stuff back in lazarette. It is amazing what a positive impact clearing the deck of all that stuff has on my attitude. I always feel like we look like "Sanford and Sons of the sea" when we have the contents of the lazarette on deck.
After we finished that job and had lunch I took a look at the next thing on my todo list and said "screw it" and we went snorkeling.
Someone had told us that the water clarity was better on the windward side of the phosphate loading station so we took the dingy over there but did not find the visibility any better and there just was not much to see.
So we took the dingy back to the boat and snorkeled around the area near our mooring. The guides say this is some of the best snorkeling on the island. That's too bad. It's not very good.
The visibility is not very good, probably because of dust from the phosphate loading station and the coral is not all that interesting or healthy looking. There is a distinct band just down wind of the phosphate loading station where there is a lot of dead coral. Our guide to us that the phosphate plant had no detectable impact on the coral. Im skeptical.
I also noticed a thick layer of dust on our solar panels. We have only been here for a couple of days so I would have to assume that on an annual basis the phosphate operation must be dumping tons of dust onto the water here in flying fish cove.
I'll get some pictures of the solar panels tomorrow morning.
The phosphate operation employs about 115 people. That does not seem like enough jobs to justify the damage the operation is doing to the marine environment to say nothing of the large areas of land that are stripped clean of all vegetation so back hoes and bull dozers can harvest the phosphate. Apparently the upper managers gave themselves half million dollar bonuses last year. That caused a strike because they did not give bonuses to the workers. If there is enough profit in the phosphate business to allow those sorts of bonuses its easy to understand why some folks want to keep this operation going.
The only remaining chore of any significance is taking on fuel. That is something we wont be able to do much about until Monday so tomorrow will just be little projects and goofing off.
08/08/2012, Indian Ocean
We spent the entire day on the boat dealing with maintenance issues that we want to take care of before we head across the Indian Ocean.
On top of the list was determining what the problem was with the wind vane. As it turned out the problem had an easy fix. A bolt that attaches the control lines to the steering quadrant backed out of the eye nut and let loose. The threads were fine and the fix was easy. Used some locktite on the threads and expect it will hold for a long time.
I also pulled some wires for our new switch panel that Ill install near the hatch into the pilot house. The new panel will let us control the gas grill light, a new light for the wind vane, and the switch for the wind generator.
I also found a secure place for our backup battery.
Shawn did some laundry to make sure we had clean tee shirts and bedding for our crossing.
It was a very uninteresting day but we got a lot finished which always feels good at the end of the day.
I was too tired at the end of the day so I started the diesel to make hot water for showers instead of taking the dingy to shore. the swell is bigger today that it has been. Its not so bad that I could not work on projects but landing the dingy would have been a little more difficult that on previous days.
I also called Australian Immigration to see if we could get a short extension on our visas so we could stop at cocos keeling on our way to Mauritius. I was supposed to get a call back from someone in the office at Perth but never got the call. I had to stay on hold for almost half an hour to talk to someone. I guess Ill have to do that again on Monday. Its a long shot but would sure take the edge off the 3000 mile passage if we could do the first 500 miles and then get a couple days rest at cocos keeling before pushing on . It would be good to fill the water tank there, too.
Im tired this evening so Ill cut this a little short today.


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When watching a documentary with colourized WW footage,
I came across something which struck me as rather odd in the D-Day episode.
A light aircraft being unloaded from a transport ship on one of the Normandy beaches?
Why didn't they fly it across, and save valuable shipping volume? If you don't have airstrips to land on yet, you can't take off either, right?
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Over the two weeks leading up to Oscar, indieWIRE will be republishing a series of interviews and profiles on the nominees for the 81st Academy Awards.
A trio of naked soldiers stride slowly through the sea past a floating corpse toward a Beirut of high-rise buildings luridly lit by orange flares. This hallucinatory image repeats like a leit motif throughout "Waltz with Bashir," an animated documentary by Israeli Ari Folman about war and memory. At last year's Cannes no one was busting down doors to watch a handful of Israeli soldiers reconstruct their experiences in the first Lebanon War of the early 80's, an event barely familiar to most Americans -- though the informed will recall the genocidal massacre of Palestinians that occurred in the Shatila refugee camps. Yet "Waltz with Bashir" was instantly hailed as an original, mesmerizing work that borrows the style of underground comics to explore the intersection of dream and historic fact.
Once you get the reference, the title is a gut punch in itself. The opening salvo: a man is pursued by a pack of ferocious dogs -- reminiscent of fantagraphic novels - yet can't identify his "crime." In a bar one night he tells his friend Ari Folman that he suspects this recurring nightmare is linked to his military service in the first Lebanon War. The admission propels Folman, who's needled by his own memory lapses about his army stint, on a quest to discover the truth of that period by interviewing fellow soldiers. Rather than a parade of talking heads pondering the fog of war, Folman offers a grunt's-eye, absurdist view of combat -- notably free of theorizing -- that uncovers through dream logic and imagery the terrible events that haunt these soldiers. And rather than the rotoscopic wobble favored by Richard Linklater, Folman offers hand-drawn portraits that render his subjects uncannily vivid. "Waltz" is trippy, appalling, sexy, funny, wary of neat conclusions, and unlike anything you've seen.
indieWIRE: Did you always intend to do "Waltz with Bashir" as an animated documentary?
Ari Folman: Yes. I had the basic idea for the film for several years, but I was not happy to do it in real life video. How would that have looked like? A middle-aged man being interviewed about events that happened 25 years ago - and without any archival footage? SO BORING! But if it could be done in animation with fantastic drawings, it would capture the surreal aspect of war. If you look at all the elements in the film - memory, lost memory, dreams, the subconscious, hallucinations, drugs, youth, lost youth - the only way to combine all those things in one storyline was drawings and animation. You know, the question most frequently asked since Cannes is "why animation?" And it's a question that's absurd to me. I mean, how else could it have been done?
indieWIRE: In the film you seem to conflate war and masculinity, as if war were a proving ground for Israeli soldiers. In fact, I was reminded of how Eytan Fox tweaks the image of the macho Israeli.
AD: It's much more complicated than just masculinity. A lot of war - when you're really young -- has to do with proving that you're more of a man, what do you think? It's not for ideological reasons that people go to fight. Men go to war usually for the wrong reasons -- the wrong ideological reasons as well.
iW: For the character named Carmi war seems to have erotic overtones. He hasn't had much success with women --
AF: Oh, he does now.
iW: -- and then gets on a battle ship he calls "the love boat" and dreams he's floating in the sea on top of a giant naked woman.
AF: ["Waltz"] is a very erotic film. I got some extreme reactions to it from one journalist in France. It was embarrassing, a really disturbing interview ...
iW: Do you think it's mainly women who react that way?
AF: I can tell you that it appealed to a lot of women in Israel. They said it was the first war movie - at least in Israeli cinema -- in which they could understand the meaning of war. Partly it's the design that contributes to the erotic quality. The drawings, colors, the characters - everything.
iW: How does the design add to the erotic quality of the film?
AF: Look at the motion. People don't walk in reality like they walk in this film. It's a different kind of walk we developed, slow and awkward. We had problems in animation creating this slow movement. It's much easier to make action scenes. So we decided to turn the problem into an advantage. The repeating scene in the water is sexy because it's not a realistic style of movement.
iW: Is sexiness a bit incongruous in a film about a mission ending in a massacre?
AF: To tell you the truth, the erotic was not something that was intended, it just happened in the making of the film. War is a lot of terrible things. It can be like a really bad acid trip. You think, It can't go on any longer, and then it does. I wanted to give that feeling in the film. And the vicious dogs at the beginning get you right into that kind of language.
iW: Why include that scene from a porno movie?
AF: The most common shared memory of people who came back from Lebanon was it was the first time we ever saw porn. We didn't have VCR's in Israel in 1982 - not until 1984. The army invaded a different country and in each house there were VCRs and movies on big cassettes. A lot of people told me, yeah, it was the first time for me to see a porn movie, so I thought I should include it. We had a censored version of the porn scene for the U.S. but these guys here [at Sony Classics] decided not to use that version. The censored version is funnier. Remember that Mark Spitz speedo with stars and stripes? We put stars and stripes on everyone in the porn scene, including the dog.
iW: Can you describe the animation process used in the film?
AF: "Waltz with Bashir" was made first as a real video based on a 90-page script. It was then made into a story board, and drawn with 2300 illustrations that were turned into animation. The animation format is a combination of Flash animation, classic animation and 3D. I want to emphasize that this film was not made by rotoscope animation, meaning that we did not paint over the real video. We drew it again from scratch with the great talent of art director David Polonsky and his three assistants.
iW: You've said you were not influenced by the rotoscope animation of Richard Linklater. So what were your models?
AF: Graphic novels - not something like "Persepolis," but Joe Sacco, Jason Lutes, Chris Ware.
iW: How did your experience making documentaries for TV prepare you for "Waltz?"
AF: I made an experiment in my documentary TV series "The Material That Love is Made Of." Each episode opened with a three-minute animated scene introducing scientists talking about the "science of LOVE." It was basic Flash animation. It worked so well that I knew a feature length animated documentary would eventually work. I think you get enormous freedom with animation and illustrations. It's a really great language for me, the best. You can imagine everything. It can be done if you have the right people, with their own perspective on things. Illustrators are brilliant.
iW: Much in "Waltz with Bashir" is deeply personal, yet it appeals to people very broadly. Do you have a theory about why?
AF: I think that in general it tells you about repression (of memory). And that has universal resonance. Everyone has gone through some event in life that they chose deliberately to forget. It doesn't have to be such an extreme event as war, it could be a broken heart, a loss of family when you were young. You could go down in the street and choose anyone at random, and something occurred to him in life, and he decided, I don't want to deal with it, I'll just go on. Which is probably good.
iW: I've seen your film twice and would go back a third time just for the sound track. You use classical music at unexpected moments.
AF: Yes, the Bach Piano Concerto # 5 repeats three times. And the Schubert sonata opus 959 is transformed into different styles - and plays over the whole ending [live archival footage revealing the Shatila massacre]. Then Max [Richter, a German-born Brit composer] made some electro Schubert for the ending titles. Max writes a combo of classic and electronic music, and performs on a computer with a band and strings. It's pretty cool. He's totally responsible for the music. One song written specially for the film is called "Good Morning Lebanon." In the opening scene with the dogs it's techno, electronic music.
iW: And in the scene on the tanks, when the soliders are firing away, you use a sonic background sound to manipulate - in the good sense - the viewer.
AD: It's the back sound of the film all the time. They invented that sound in the studios, they went in search of it. Putting in the sound is the best part, you're just having fun. We did the mixing in a studio in Berlin that used to be the gym of the Nazi leadership. The foyer was donated by Mussolini. The building and sound facilities were incredible. I was there for six weeks with all these talented German guys and a guy I brought from Tel Aviv. In the dog scene we had 98 tracks that we reduced to 5 tracks on a big mixing console.
iW: Why did the Israeli Left object to the film?
AF: Because they thought it didn't place enough national blame for the massacre.
iW: Well, why didn't you hold the leadership more to account? Sharon was complicit, after all, he allowed the massacre to happen.
AF: I didn't want to make any statement about the leadership. I wanted to recreate the world of the ordinary soldier. There was a commission that found Sharon guilty, he was banned from office for life, then he came back as Prime Minister, came back as a hero, think of it. Those things happen in Israel ... Bottom line, for me it was not a revenge film against Ariel Sharon. As for why he didn't stop the massacre, he's asleep now, so we can't ask him. The whole plan for Lebanon was so sick, to my mind. What the master plan was nobody really knows.
iW: Rather than presenting an argument, this film unfolds with dream logic. How did you structure it?
AF: I'm always on the verge between reality and fantasy and dreams in whatever I do.
iW: You mean, right now, just sitting here?
AF: Yep, but especially when I write. This borderline between reality and dream really blows my mind. For me it's natural. That's why animation is so natural for me, you can go from one dimension to another. This film has a very strong structure in the screenplay -
iW: -- of a quest.
AF: Yes, and all the other elements were just supporting. But if you look at the future, probably films will change completely, even if the basic story and storytelling will stay the same.
iW: What's your next project?
AF: I've optioned a novel by Stanislaw Lem, a Polish author who wrote "Solaris." It's called "The Futurological Congress." It's fiction but it's going to have a leading American actress in it playing herself. The present will be live action, the film's future time will be drawn.
iW: As a young draftee, you had your own demons to exorcise regarding the war in Lebabnon. Was the making of "Waltz with Bashir" therapeutic for you?
AF: I'd say the filmmaking part was good, but the therapy aspect sucked.
"Waltz With Bashir" is nominated for best foreign language film at the 81st Academy Awards


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Oprah Gives Away a Car on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and We Miss Her Again (VIDEO)
Growing up in the 90s, we didn't have much to do after school but plop down in front of the TV and watch talk shows. One particular host that we could always count on to deliver the most gut-wrenching real stories or the most painful hysterical laughs was Oprah. We were genuinely sad to see her show end, but her recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live brought back one of our fondest memories of childhood.
Oprah appeared on Jimmy's show to promote the film in which she makes her triumphant return to the silver screen alongside Forest Whitaker: The Butler. The 59-year-old television mogul plays the part of Gloria Gaines, the wife of a long-serving White House butler (Whitaker) who served 8 presidents, but as she's talking about her experience working with the Oscar Award-winner, she suddenly cuts herself off.
"Hold on," Oprah says as she holds a hand up at Jimmy. "I just got that feeling again."
"What feeling?" he asks.
"You know, that feeling. I get that feeling, you know?"
"Should we stop or something?"
"No no no no no no no. I really didn't want it to happen here!"
"Are you alright?"
Oprah takes the opportunity to call a random woman down from the audience to sit beside her on the cushy show set. After asking the woman's name, Oprah finally relieves her tension in the only way she knows how:
"You get a car!" Oprah screams into the face of the young, unsuspecting woman. Again, so many memories.
Confetti rains down, Oprah hands the woman a set of keys, and she is taken behind the studio to where her new Ford Fusion Hybrid is waiting. This woman just won a freaking car and all she had to do was request a free ticket to a show taping and show up.
After the show, Oprah tweeted about her recent interview: "THAT was fun! I don't know what came over me! #yougetacar"
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New Guidelines for Preventing MigraineWednesday, April 25th, 2012
Preventive treatment of migraine is the focus of updated guidelines 1,2 co-published by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) and the American Headache Society. According to data presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the AAN, few people with migraine use preventive treatment—although many different preventive strategies are available. The AAN last updated its prevention guidelines in 2000.
According to data cited in the guidelines, migraine is both underrecognized and undertreated. According to data cited in the published guidelines, 38% of people who suffer from migraine could benefit from preventive treatments, and less than a third use preventive treatments.
Unlike acute treatments, which are used to relieve the pain and associated symptoms of a migraine attack when it occurs, preventive treatments are typically taken every day to prevent attacks from occurring and to lessen their severity and duration when they do occur. Some studies show that migraine attacks can be reduced by more than half with preventive treatments.
The guidelines reviewed all of the available evidence on migraine prevention for prescription, over-the-counter, and complementary treatments. The review did not address the magnitude of any given agent's efficacy—only the strength of evidence backing their superiority relative to placebo. The guidelines do not include any evidence related to lifestyle changes.
Among the prescription drugs, three seizure drugs (divalproex sodium, sodium valproate, and topiramate) and three beta-blockers (metoprolol, propranolol, and timolol) were effective for migraine prevention and should be offered to people with migraine to reduce the frequency and severity of attacks. Frovatriptan, a statin, was found to be effective in the prevention of menstrual migraines. Of note is that the seizure drug lamotrigine was found to be ineffective in preventing migraine.
The guidelines also reviewed over-the-counter treatments and complementary treatments. The guideline found that the herbal preparation Petasites (butterbur) appears to be effective in preventing migraine. Other treatments found to be "probably effective" are the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs fenoprofen, ibuprofen, ketoprofen, naproxen and naproxen sodium, subcutaneous histamine and complementary treatments magnesium, MIG-99 (feverfew), and riboflavin.
The guidelines note that while people do not need a prescription from a physician for over-the-counter and complementary treatments, they still should see a healthcare provider regularly for follow-up. Because migraines can get better or worse over time, people should discuss these changes in the pattern of attacks with their doctors and see whether they need to adjust their dose or even stop their medication or switch to a different medication. In addition, people need to keep in mind that all drugs, including over-the-counter drugs and complementary treatments, can have side effects or interact with other medications, which should be monitored.
According to the AAN, migraines led to more than 3 million emergency room visits in the United States in 2008, the last date for which data are available.
- Silberstein S, Holland S, Freitag F, Dodick DW, Argoff C, Ashman E. Evidence-based guideline update: pharmacologic treatment for episodic migraine prevention in adults. Neurology. 2012;78(17):1337-1345. Abstract available at: http://www.neurology.org/content/78/17/1337.full. Accessed April 25, 2012.
- Holland S, Silberstein F, Freitag F, Dodick DW, Argoff C, Ashman E . Evidence-bsaed guideline update: NSAIDs and other complementary treatments for episodic migraine prevention in adults. Neurology. 2012;78(17):1346-1353. Abstract available at: http://www.neurology.org/content/78/17/1346.full. Accessed April 25, 2012.


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It's been a little while since I last posted anything, mainly as I've been busy with my new flat and my day job! But I'm happy to be finding at least a little bit of time to focus on some drawing – this weekend has been very productive and I've finally finished a design I've been working on for a few months.
Here you can see a few draft ideas, and the finished version, It'll be on my Etsy shop pretty soon, I'm looking forward to seeing it in print! Hope you like it. xx


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Ive ridin a Diamondback Hybrid Bike for a 7.5 mile uphill ride and just recently moved to Nevada and was in search for a new bike. I have had my eye on road bikes but just uncertain if I am up to par to ride such an intense looking bicycle. My current job is only 4.5 miles away, not much hills to it either, but was wondering which would be better. A hybrid or road bicycle?
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Henry suspended for substance abuse violation
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR has suspended crew chief Charles J. Henry for violating the substance abuse policy.
Henry, who goes by Jerry, is crew chief for RSS Racing in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. He crew chiefed for Chris Jones on the No. 38 truck last weekend at Texas.
The suspension is indefinite.


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1. Bring water and 1/8 teaspoon salt to boiling in small saucepan. Add potato and garlic; boil gently, uncovered, for 15 to 20 minutes or until potato is tender. Mash potato and garlic with water until creamy. Stir in 1/2 cup Parmesan. Transfer to large bowl. Let stand until potatoes come to room temperature. 2. Stir in chicken, egg yolk, parsley and lemon juice. Beat egg white in small bowl until stiff but not dry peaks form. Fold into chicken mixture. Form into 8 elongated patties. 3. Combine bread crumbs and remaining 2 tablespoons Parmesan cheese in shallow pie plate or on sheet of waxed paper. Dredge patties in crumb mixture; place on plate. Refrigerate patties, covered, for at least 1 hour or for up to 3 hours before sauteing. 4. Heat oil in large skillet over moderate heat. When oil is very hot, add patties; cook until golden brown and crisp, about 3 minutes per side. Serve with lemon wedges, if you wish. Makes 8 patties. Notes: One cup of leftover mashed potatoes can be substituted for the cooked all-purpose potatoes in Step 1. Add just enough hot water, about 1/4 cup, to loosen potatoes and make them creamy. Continue with Step 1 in recipe. Can be halved or doubled. Nutrient Value Per Serving 328 calories, 25 g protein, 20 g fat, 12 g carbohydrate, 471 mg sodium, 114 mg cholesterol. Chicken Pattie Make-Ahead TIP: The patties can be prepared up to 3 hours ahead through Step 3 and refrigerated, covered. Source: The Family Circle Cookbook, New Tastes for New Times Typos by Brenda Adams
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The Competition Commission has ordered airport operator BAA to sell Stansted and either Edinburgh or Glasgow aiport, once it has completed the sale of Gatwick. The commission has been looking into BAA's dominance of airports in Scotland and England's south-east for two years and decided that the lack of competition between airports has been detrimental to passengers.
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Smashing up BAA – an improvement for passengers?
When the government established the British Airports Authority in 1965, its aim was to make airports more flexible and profitable. Profitable they may have been but flexibility is not something that Britain's larger airports are renowned for.