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Gedolei Yisrael are not in agreement as how to respond to plans to induct bnei Torah into the IDF or national service. On Monday 1 Adar 5773, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will be meeting with potential coalition partners from Bayit Yehudi and Yesh Atid to present the new draft plan prepared by the head of the National Economic Council Prof. Eugene Kandel. The new plan is more radical than the Ya?alon model while less severe than the Yair Lapid plan while demands setting a maximum number of bnei Torah permitted to continue learning annually.

The prime minister hopes both Bayit HaYehudi and Yesh Atid will give the Kandel Plan their stamp of approval but the two party leaders, Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid have already signaled they will oppose it, the daily Maariv reports.

Despite Shas efforts to team up with Bennett?s dati leumi party to form a chareidi bloc, Bennett and Lapid appear committed to their agreement, to either join the coalition or opposition as a unit, each promising not to cut a deal with the prime minister without the other. Clearly, if the prime minister wishes to include the chareidim with their combined 18 seats in the coalition he will have to find an acceptable share the burden formula, which seems to lock out Bennett and Lapid with their combined 31 seats.

Likud appears to be heading away from the Ya?alon plan which was acceptable to Gedolei Yisrael Shlita in Bnei Brak. Some Yahadut Hatorah MKs released statements that they can live with such an arrangement, as did Shas officials. However, it appears the coalition cannot, resulting in the modified plan prepared by Professor Kandel. The new plan is more severe than the original plan in the hope of winning over Bennett and Lapid, but modified enough that Likud/Beitenu feels the chareidim will still accept it.

It appears HaGaon HaRav Aaron Yehuda Leib Shteinman Shlita is willing to accept the Ya?alon plan while HaGaon HaRav Shmuel Auerbach Shlita is unwilling to accept a situation in which bnei Torah are drafted. The new plan is just being unveiled so it is too soon to know if this will result in a change in the decision of Rav Shteinman.

(YWN ? Israel Desk, Jerusalem)

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'Argo' named best film at Britain's Oscars

George Clooney, left, and Ben Affleck arrive for the BAFTA Film Awards at the Royal Opera House on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, in London. (Photo by Ki Price/Invision/AP)

George Clooney, left, and Ben Affleck arrive for the BAFTA Film Awards at the Royal Opera House on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, in London. (Photo by Ki Price/Invision/AP)

American actor and director Ben Affleck with the award for Best Film for "Argo," at the BAFTA Film Awards at the Royal Opera House on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, in London. (Photo by Jonathan Short/Invision/AP)

Laura Whitmore arrives for the BAFTA Film Awards at the Royal Opera House on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, in London. (Photo by Jonathan Short/Invision/AP))

George Clooney arrives for the BAFTA Film Awards at the Royal Opera House on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, in London. (Photo by Jon Furniss/Invision/AP)

Alicia Vikander arrives for the BAFTA Film Awards at the Royal Opera House on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, in London. (Photo by Jon Furniss/Invision/AP)

LONDON (AP) ? Iran-hostage drama "Argo" continued its journey from awards-season outsider to favorite Sunday, winning three prizes, including best-picture, at the British Academy Film Awards.

Ben Affleck was named best director for the based-on-reality story of a longshot plan to rescue a group of American diplomats from Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and the film also took the editing trophy.

Affleck, who has made a remarkable journey from little-regarded actor to award-winning director, dedicated his directing prize for "anyone out there who's trying to get their second act."

George Clooney, a producer of "Argo," quipped: "I don't know what you're going to do for a third act."

Daniel Day-Lewis won his universally expected best-actor trophy for "Lincoln" ? the only prize out of 10 nominations for Steven Spielberg's historical biopic.

Emmanuelle Riva, the 85-year-old French film legend, was named best actress for Michael Haneke's poignant old-age portrait "Amour." It also was named best foreign-language film.

Made-in-Britain French revolutionary musical "Les Miserables" won four prizes, including best supporting actress for Anne Hathaway. James Bond adventure "Skyfall" spied some elusive awards recognition, winning trophies for music and best British film.

The British awards, known as BAFTAs, are increasingly glamorous ? despite a well-earned reputation for dismal weather ? and ever-more scrutinized as an indicator of likely success at the Hollywood Oscars. In recent years they have prefigured Academy Awards triumph for word-of-mouth hits such as "Slumdog Millionaire," ''The King's Speech" and "The Artist."

This year they spread their honors widely, with multiple trophies for "Life of Pi," ''Silver Linings Playbook," ''Amour" and "Django Unchained," as well as "Argo."

Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden thriller "Zero Dark Thirty" was shut out of the prizes, despite five nominations.

This season's movie with momentum is crowd-pleaser "Argo," which has been building steam with big prizes at ceremonies such as the Golden Globes, the Producers Guild and the Directors Guild of America Awards.

It is now considered a front-runner for the best picture award at the Oscars on Feb. 24, even though Affleck was not nominated for best director.

"Argo" marks a change for Affleck, whose first two features as director ? "Gone Baby Gone" and "The Town" ? were set in his native Boston. In "Argo" he stars as Tony Mendez, a CIA agent who poses as a sci-fi filmmaker in a risky plot to rescue Americans in Tehran.

"I wanted to get as far away from Boston as I could," Affleck said. "I ended up in Iran."

"Skyfall," the highest-grossing film in the Bond series' 50-year history, was named best British film ? rare awards-season recognition for an action movie. Thomas Newman's score also won the best-music prize.

Director Sam Mendes said he was accepting the trophy on behalf of the "1,292 people" who worked on "Skyfall."

"We all had high expectations for this film and it's fair to say all of them have been exceeded," Mendes said. "Here's to the next 50 years."

Quentin Tarantino picked up the original screenplay award for "Django Unchained," and Christoph Waltz was named best supporting actor for playing a loquacious bounty hunter in Tarantino's slave-revenge thriller.

Waltz said his victory was entirely due to Tarantino ? "you silver-penned devil, you."

Tarantino also revealed that he plans another film that sets out to right an historical wrong, after anti-Nazi saga "Inglourious Basterds" and "Django Unchained."

"I think there is something about this that begs a trilogy," he said. "I don't know what the third one's going to be yet."

Hathaway said she was "overjoyed" at being named best supporting actress for her brief but powerhouse performance in "Les Miserables." She said she was so taken aback that "I almost walked past George Clooney without hugging him."

She also expressed sympathy for co-star Eddie Redmayne, who had been due to present an award but ? co-presenter Sally Field informed the audience ? was vomiting backstage.

"Feel better," Hathaway said. "I mean I'd be holding your hair back, but, you know..."

Writer-director David O. Russell won the adapted screenplay prize for "Silver Linings Playbook," a comedy about characters confronting mental illness.

"Les Mis" also took trophies for production design, sound and makeup/hair, and "Life of Pi" received honors for cinematography and visual effects.

Before the ceremony, stars including Clooney, Affleck, Hugh Jackman, Samuel L. Jackson, Amy Adams and Bradley Cooper braved a chilly rain that turned to snow outside the Royal Opera House.

For once it was hair, even more than frocks, that drew attention ? many stars opted for dark colors, though Marion Cotillard defied the dull weather in a canary-yellow gown. Beards were de rigeur among male stars including Clooney, Affleck and Cooper, while Helen Mirren turned heads with a pink 'do, sported in honor of breast cancer awareness.

Sunday's ceremony also saw director Alan Parker receive a BAFTA Fellowship, the academy's highest honor, for a career that includes "Midnight Express," ''Fame" and "Mississippi Burning."

Associated Press

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The 3 Elements of light inside a Camera | Travel and Leisure

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For those who have just bought a Canon DSLR camera, then it?s probably you?re more serious regarding your digital photography than most other people. To get the most out of your camera, it?s very useful to know and understand the basic physics behind it, what impacts specific settings of the camera have and so on. Photography is really a rewarding hobby and profession, but it?s hard to master, and just with lots of practice and no how would you get anyplace by using it. So, the very first thing you should have bought together with your Canon DSLR is definitely an SD card, a skylight filter for the lens (for defense), and a spare?Canon Lp-e6? battery.

On the other hand, there are 3 very important ideas that you must realize, and these are typical to each digital camera. These principles are essential to enabling light into your camera for capture of your shot, and utilized incorrectly will lead to some really wild final results. Hence, even for a novice, I recommend ignoring all automatic and aid settings on your camera, and jumping at the deep end and setting it to M, for manual. It really is involved at first, however in the long run become familiar with and understand how your camera performs much faster.

The 3 elements affecting light to your camera are:

1. ISO

In old film cameras, this handled the rate from the film. For bright sunny days, you would want to use 100 ISO film. For inside photography, you would have to have 400 ISO. It is related in a digital camera, however it now determines the sensitivity to light of the sensor (which has replaced the film).

In fundamental terms, if you?re shooting outdoors on the vibrant day, you should set your ISO to 100. If shooting inside, once more a higher ISO is required, however this can go nicely beyond 400 ISO, most cameras permit as much as 1600 ISO, but some newer ones go beyond even this. This eliminates the requirement for flash in lots of situations, and even though the results can be grainier, today?s technology is even eliminating this.

two. Aperture

The aperture is essentially your window into your camera. It?s a hole that may be enhanced or decreased based on what conditions you?re shooting in and the amount of light. It controls the amount of light entering the camera.

Basically, if you?re shooting a landscape, you may need a little hole (high f stop number), because there will be a lot of light. If shooting a portrait, then a large hole (tiny f cease number) is needed. Aperture also controls depth of area.

3. Shutter Speed

The 3rd and final method to handle light entering your camera is thru the shutter. This is the period of time the shutter is open.

In standard terms, if you want to freeze action crisply and cleanly, then use a very fast shutter speed. If you wish to show motion and blur, then a slower shutter speed should be applied (using a tripod).

The 3 affect each other, and for a properly exposed photo, should you adjust a single, you have to change the other. Practise and being attentive to your settings will help you understand this improved.

But when you visit practice, always remember to take a spare Canon Lp-e6 battery along with you.

Source: http://travelandleisure.tk/2013/02/10/the-3-elements-of-light-inside-a-camera/

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Winston Salem Chronicle ? Rams to honor local breast cancer ...

Winston-Salem State University will do its part to raise breast cancer awareness during its Saturday Feb. 9 home basketball games against CIAA foe St. Augustine?s University.

Both the Rams and Lady Rams will take on St. Aug squads, beginning with the women?s match-up at 5 p.m. Fans are asked to wear pink ? the international color of breast cancer awareness ? to the games. During halftime of the men?s game, local breast cancer survivors will be honored.

WSSU is one of many schools nationwide taking part in Play 4Kay (formerly WBCA Pink Zone), an effort dedicated to former N.C. State Head Women?s Basketball Coach Kay Yow, who died of breast cancer in 2009.

Yow, who had coached at NCSU for 32 seasons, was first diagnosed with the disease in 1987. She had successfully fought off two pervious bouts.

WSSU is inviting local breast cancer survivors to take part in the halftime event. Those who would like to participate are asked to contact Brian Murrill at 336-750-3365 or murrillb@wssu.edu.

Source: http://www.wschronicle.com/2013/02/rams-to-honor-local-breast-cancer-survivors/

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Health officials: Worst of flu season may be over

NEW YORK (AP) ? The worst of the flu season appears to be over.

The number of states reporting intense or widespread flu dropped again last week, U.S. health officials said Friday.

The season started earlier than normal, spiking first in the Southeast and then spreading. But now, by?some measures, flu activity has been ebbing for at least?four weeks in much of the country. Flu and pneumonia deaths have been dropping for two weeks, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.

"It's likely that the worst of the current flu season is over," CDC spokesman Tom Skinner said in an email.

It's been nine years since a conventional flu season started like this one. That was the winter of 2003-04 ? one of the deadliest in the past 35 years, with more than 48,000 deaths. Like this year, that season had the same dominant flu strain, one that tends to make people sicker.

But back then, the flu vaccine didn't protect against that bug, and fewer people got flu shots. The vaccine is reformulated each year, and the CDC has said this year's vaccine is a good match to the types that are circulating. A preliminary CDC study showed this year's version is about 60 percent effective.

So far, the season has been labeled moderately severe.

The government does not keep a running tally of flu-related deaths in adults, but has received reports of 59 such deaths in children. The most ? nine ? were in Texas, where flu activity was still high last week.

On average, about 24,000 Americans die each flu season, according to the CDC.

Flu vaccinations are recommended for everyone 6 months or older.

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Online:

CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/index.htm

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/health-officials-worst-flu-season-may-over-181554425.html

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Evolution of Business Presentation Technology [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Business presentations have come a long way. Now, presenters have a wide array of presentation creation and delivery tools. Here?s a look at how business presentation technology has evolved over the last two centuries.

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