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"Come here and help us by making no airplane and jets. On the ground, we are here, we are fine," says Abdullah al-Gasem, an engineer turned fighter who spent most of the last week in Ras Lanuf before Gadhafi's troops pushed him back. "Do you taste freedom in your life?" he asks a foreign journalist. "I have tasted it for the first time, here. That's the true freedom… Muammar Gadhafi didn't want any freedom for Libyans. We need more help."
Few people here fear that Gadhafi has enough troops to recapture Benghazi or Tobruk. But the two million or so people living in eastern Libya fear the regime they hate so much will once again extend its tentacles into their cities, either by bombing from the air, targeted attacks, frontal assaults, or threats.
Gadhafi has waged a psychological war on the people he ruled for nearly 42 years, sending text messages to people in Benghazi and Tobruk warning them his forces were coming, dropping leaflets in Ajdabiyah urging residents to throw out opposition fighters, even shutting down the entire phone network in eastern Libya for three hours, adding to the fears of isolation.
In the face of such threats, people in this region show fatalism -- "he's going to come house to house, I know he will" -- but also determination born out of the rapture they have felt since Feb. 17.
Abdul Kader -- 15-year-old Fatma's father -- says the city of nearly one million has been transformed "like magic" since the revolution, with people free of fear. Where people were willing to litter before, they now help sweep the public square. Where there was apathy toward the rest of the world, there is now sympathy for victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Where there was terror of being picked up by one of Gadhafi's police, there is now pride in free expression.
Banks loan people money on zero credit if they are not receiving their salaries, and volunteers direct traffic.
Nobody here will give that up without a fight.
"He cannot rule us again," Gader says, thumbing the four cell phones he uses to ensure communication with the media. He is a professor, not a spokesman, but he has made it his work to help foreign journalists. "If Gadhafi ever wants to rule eastern Libya again, it will be over our dead bodies."
That defiance is echoed even by those who have paid an unbearable price.
Osama Bensadik alternates between inspiration and despair when he speaks of his oldest son Muhannad, shot on the front lines over the weekend. He says he has received calls from people in the capital Tripoli who describe how Muhannad's story has inspired them to fight. The 21-year-old Muhannad, a U.S. citizen, could have evacuated Benghazi, but chose to stay.
"Normally the father is the example of the son. But he became my example," Bensadik said today. "Gadhafi could bombard us from the sea and could use his planes to bomb us. That will not make any difference. He will never be our leader again. Never. Our children who have died in this revolution – in Zawaiyah, in Misrata, in the mountains, in Benghazi… have not died in vain. Let him hit us. Let him kill us all. The people's hearts are changed."


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A question many investors have about their investments is "How much money did I make?" They often look at cost basis to answer that question. However, cost basis isn't intended to tell you how much money you've made on an investment. Instead, cost basis is used to help determine capital gains or losses for tax purposes.
Investors have the option to purchase shares in an investment by reinvesting interest, dividends, or other distributions. Oftentimes, people consider these distributions to be part of their return. But these distributions are added to the cost basis when they're reinvested. Although money was earned on the original investment by way of a distribution, it's not considered part of the performance.
As a hypothetical example, let's say you invest $10,000 in Mutual Fund A and $10,000 in Mutual Fund B on the same day. The $10,000 investment is the original cost basis for each fund. (Figure 1)
|Figure 1: Beginning balances
|Mutual Fund A
|Mutual Fund B
|Initial investment
|Cost basis
During the first year, Mutual Fund A increases $1,000 due to market changes, and ends with a balance of $11,000. Mutual Fund B earns $1,000 in dividends that are reinvested, and also ends with a balance of $11,000. (Figure 2) Here's where cost basis and personal performance differ.
|Figure 2: Account activity
|Mutual Fund A
|Mutual Fund B
|Initial investment
|Increase due to market appreciation
|Dividends paid and reinvested
|Dividend reinvestment price/share
|Dividend reinvestment shares
|End of year account value
At the end of the year, Mutual Fund A still has a cost basis of $10,000, but since the fund increased due to the market there's a gain of $1,000.
Now let's look at Mutual Fund B. At the end of the first year the cost basis of this fund is $11,000, so when looking at the value of the investment it shows there's no gain. (Figure 3)
|Figure 3: Ending balances
|Mutual Fund A
|Mutual Fund B
|Account value
|Cost basis
|Unrealized appreciation
|Total investment returns
Why the difference? In Mutual Fund B, income was distributed and used to purchase more shares. These reinvestments are treated the same as any other investment you would make in the fund. So your basis increases, even though you didn't actually put any new money into the investment.
In the end, look at your cost basis information to help you figure out the tax consequences of selling an investment. If you want to know how much money you've made or lost in an investment, look at your personal performance.
This hypothetical example does not represent any particular investment.
Because of regulatory changes affecting the reporting of cost basis information to the IRS, we've put together a variety of resources here to help you understand what cost basis is, make it easier to select an appropriate method for your tax situation, and navigate any changes in tax filing.
What is cost basis?
Cost basis is, generally, the price you paid for your shares. This includes adjustments such as reinvested dividends and capital gains, as well as any sales commissions or transaction fees.
A question many investors have about their investments is "How much money did I make?" They often look at cost basis to answer that question. However, cost basis isn't intended to tell you how much money you've made on an investment. Instead, cost basis is used to help determine capital gains or losses for tax purposes. Learn more about why cost basis is not performance
The importance of reporting accurate cost basis information
Keeping track of your cost basis is an important step in determining your capital gains or losses on sales of shares. The IRS requires you to report your gains or losses for shares sold when you file your annual tax return.
Because of regulatory changes, which are being phased in over five years, investment companies such as Vanguard are reporting cost basis for sales in taxable (nonretirement) accounts to the IRS as well as to you. Previously we reported this information only to you. The table below lists the effective dates for the different types of securities that are covered by the new IRS rules. If you acquire shares after the effective date and subsequently sell them, your cost basis will be reported to the IRS as well as to you.
Timetable of cost basis legislation changes
|January 1, 2011
|January 1, 2012
|January 1, 2014
|January 1, 2016
|Mutual funds*
|Less complex bonds†
|More complex bonds‡
|Certain ETFs**
|Most ETFs***
|Most options
|Certain options involving more complex bonds
|Dividend reinvestment plans (DRiPs)
*Excluding money market funds.
**ETFs that are unit investment trusts (UITs) and taxed as regulated investment companies. If you're not sure whether this applies to your ETF, check with your issuer.
***Certain ETFs, such as those that invest in commodities, aren't stocks; therefore, they're not covered under the regulations.
†Generally, these are bonds or other debt obligations with fixed yield and maturity dates.
‡Generally, these are bonds or other debt obligations without fixed yield and maturity dates.
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O'Reilly went on to claim that the increase in spending has not benefited the economy, but was implemented by Obama in an attempt to appeal to Hispanic voters. Pointing to a recent Pew Research Center poll question on the role of the federal government, O'Reilly concluded, "That's why President Obama is spending the money, because he knows that a coalition of African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, organized labor, and committed liberals will overwhelm the Republican party."
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Fox & Friends Sunday hosted a small business owner to disparage the Affordable Care Act without disclosing his membership in the anti-health care reform group National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB).
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Fox News never disclosed that McArthur, who has repeatedly appeared on the network, is a member of the NFIB, a group that has spent millions to overturn the Affordable Care Act.
The NFIB was the lead plaintiff suing to overturn the Affordable Care Act before the Supreme Court. In a post titled "The Group Trying To Kill Obamacare," Salon.com's Alex Seitz-Wald reported that the group spent at least $2.9 million in 2010 alone working to overturn the law. The Huffington Post reported that the NFIB "received 10 donations totaling more than $10 million from anonymous donors" in 2010 and 2011, in addition to $3.7 million in funding from Karl Rove's Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies. The Huffington Post also reported that the organization's "multimillion-dollar independent expenditures and campaign donations have benefited almost exclusively Republicans."
This is not the first time Fox has hosted undisclosed NFIB members to criticize the Affordable Care Act.
In July 2012, Fox & Friends hosted small business owner Mike Paine to attack the health care reform law without disclosing his membership in the organization. Prior to that, NFIB member and small business owner Joe Olivo appeared on Fox News and Fox Business at least six times to criticize the Affordable Care Act, without disclosure of his membership.
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PANETTA: No.
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AYOTTE: Did you communicate with anyone else at the White House that night?
PANETTA: No.
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"DHS issued this RFI to engage the private-sector community towards driving markets and innovation through economies of scale to deliver the best cybersecurity to all of our companies and citizens," Phyllis Schneck, deputy undersecretary for cybersecurity at DHS' National Protection and Programs Directorate, told FCW in an emailed statement.
The RFI is geared to providers of managed security services, network monitoring, and other diagnostic and protective systems, and seek answers on how the NIST framework might change the business landscape and make services more accessible and affordable to small and midsize companies. Specifically, DHS asks whether a company that adopts the NIST framework might merit lower service prices, if government has a role to play in touting the value of cybersecurity products to such companies, whether there are policy or technical impediments to offering services to such companies, and whether the government should define what adoption of the NIST framework entails.
A robust market exists to provide those services to large enterprises, but it is not clear if these providers can scale their services to suit smaller companies. "DHS seeks to understand the landscape of capabilities available to SMBs and ways to encourage economies of scale so SMBs can benefit from the rapid advances in cybersecurity and technology," the RFI states.
"I think they will probably analyze the information and determine if this is an area where there is a gap, and what are the appropriate roles for the department, and how they can influence it appropriately," said Evan Wolff, a partner at law firm Crowell and Moring and a former special assistant to DHS' assistant secretary for infrastructure protection.
DHS is collecting responses to the RFI through April 20.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Batter up? More like bundle up. The Detroit Tigers open the season on Monday in frosty Minnesota, where forecasts call for temperature in the low 30s at game time at outdoor Target Field. The wind chill is expected to be around 20 degrees. So the Tigers will need all the heat they can get from Justin Verlander's 100 mph fastballs. "It's going to be cold but I've pitched in that kind of weather before," Verlander said. "I don't think about it. It's always cold in Detroit on opening day." But this cold? If the forecast holds true, it has the potential to be the coldest opening day on record in Minnesota, dating to 1961. The coldest was 33 degrees in 1963. There was plenty of debate when the Twins were designing a new stadium about building one with a roof to shield them from the elements. The first three seasons in Target Field have been mostly beautiful, with few rainouts and generally warm weather once the season began. Major League Baseball put the Twins on th...
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AboutAn exhibition to showcase work made this year by ten students from across courses at University of the Arts London. Works range from painting, sculpture, photography, video and illustration. Artists include Anna Dakin and Summer Oxley, founders of the Philosophy Society, and curators of the exhibition. Oxley has a strong interest in kitsch aesthetics and publicly accessible artwork, with a focus on fun and interesting imagery. Her work explores a variety of subject matter, which she expresses by painting and editing found objects. Dakin takes inspiration from the universe and consciousness to make abstract paintings and analogue films. She is interested in the balance of the universe and works by bringing out colour from abstract forms. Featuring work by: Gayathri Anand Carianne Annan Anna Dakin The Awkward Truth Sula Hancock Agne Kucinskaite Lana Luna Summer Oxley Philip Speakman
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Price Ceiling Set To Lower Sales
Venezuela's National Assembly has approved the law regulating the purchase and sales of new and used vehicles in an attempt to alleviate shortages in the market and ongoing price speculation. The legislation, which now passes to the President to be enacted into law, will introduce a price ceiling and fines for car dealerships that attempt to charge a higher price. It is unclear when the legislation will come into effect.
BMI maintains a particularly bearish outlook on the sector, however, as we believe that such measures tackle the result of the problem (expensive used cars), and make no real attempt to resolve the root causes (high inflation and low supply of new cars). We believe that such policies may serve to limit new vehicle sales over the next few years as imports may dry-up. Further, it may cause the price of used cars to rise as the segment is driven into the black market.
Bearish Market Outlook
Vehicle sales in Venezuela declined 16.1% year-on-year (y-o-y) in the first seven months of the year, to 65,966 units. We hold a bearish outlook for consumer sentiment, and maintain our forecast for a 19% decline in the market in 2013 ( see 'Bearish Market Sentiment Remains', August 12 ).
In this seven-month period, sales of domestically-produced vehicles declined 34.4% y-o-y, to 43,329 units, while sales of imported vehicles increased 79.7% y-o-y, to 22,637 units. This increase in imported vehicles is due to the paucity of domestically-produced cars and low-base effects. Historically, sales of domestically-produced vehicles have dominated the market. However, production in the country has curtailed significantly in recent months, creating a shortage of vehicles available to buy. We believe that, as imported vehicles constitute a larger part of the sector, the weaker currency will have a more substantive impact on sales volumes over the year as imports become more expensive.
We believe that the poor macro picture in Venezuela will continue to impact vehicle sales over the year. The government's currency devaluation in February will pose a considerable upside risk to inflation, hike interest rates for vehicle loans, and make vehicle imports more expensive, thus eroding consumers' purchasing power and affecting sales volumes ( see 'Inflation Will Remain Elevated', August 8 ). We expect this to continue to filter through to consumer sentiment over the course of the year.
We see little upside risk to sales from the government's new price ceiling, as the lower prices of cars will not attract many new consumers into the market; vehicle demand already far outstrips supply as manufacturers struggle to produce sufficient volumes and the waiting-lists for new cars are reported to stand at many months.
We highlight that a possible side-effect of the government's price ceiling for new vehicles could be to limit vehicle imports. The weakness in the currency serves to make them very expensive in local currency terms; if this is over the price ceiling, it would not be possible to sell them in the market. Were this to happen, importers could either take a loss on the cars, or stop importing the vehicles. We believe the latter outcome is more likely. This poses considerable downside risk to our sales outlook over the next few years, as a drop-off in imports would create a significant shortage of vehicles available in the country.
Currently, we forecast a 9.2% drop in vehicle sales in 2014, as we expect many of the market dynamics currently impacting the market to remain pertinent. The potential drop-off in imports may cause us to revise this downward.
Tackling Results Not Causes
The country continues to face a shortage of US dollars as people increasingly wish to keep their money abroad. This shortage of US dollars has led to a shortage of consumer goods, including cars. Indeed, throughout 2012, a number of producers faced a shortage of parts because the imports were unavailable, and dealerships suffered from a lack of vehicles. We expect this to continue as inflation rises.
BMI has long highlighted that cars are often bought in Venezuela as a store against inflation. Cars usually gain in value once they are purchased, instead of depreciating as in most markets, because of the paucity of vehicles available.
BMI believes that this new bill tackles the results of the problem (overly expensive used cars), not the causes (high inflation and paucity of vehicle supply), and will therefore do little to really resolve the issue. Indeed, BMI has long maintained that in order to see sustained growth in vehicle production, the regulatory environment needs a complete overhaul, particularly in the issuance of assembly permits and access to foreign currency. We expect to see an increase in inflation in 2013, which will exacerbate the problem. Furthermore, we caution that such policies may see the emergence of a large black market for used cars, which may even drive the cost of used cars higher than previous levels as availability decreases and such markets are dominated by criminal elements.


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The SSD can be opened up and shows a full-sized PCB with a plastic spacer that spans the drive perimeter. This 6Gbps storage unit makes use of Samsung's own MLC Synchronous NAND.
At total of eight NAND flash memory ICs can be spotted on the PCB. The NAND FLASH partition are assigned directly to the controller. All the way to the upper left you can see two ICs, these are in fact a RAM IC and the controller.
Here we can see the triple core MDX controller. This is an eight-channel controller with the ability of a possible 175~200MB/s per channel throughput, which is a really high value yet becoming the norm for enthusiast class SSDs anno 2012/2013.
In the photo above we zoom in a little at the DDR3 memory cache chip from Samsung.
As stated the MLC NAND used is 20nm in architecture. An interesting fact is that the power consumption of the Samsung SSD is extraordinary low with an IDLE rating of 0.042 watts and only 0.068 watts when active, regular SSD drives use roughly 2 to 4 watts of power when active. We can see why these SSDs end up on notebooks, as that is a much preferred power consumption.
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When someone smokes a cigarette, most of the smoke doesn't go into their lungs. It goes into the air, where anyone nearby can breathe it.
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Smoking is banned in many public places. But many people are still exposed to secondhand smoke, especially children who live with parents who smoke. Even people who try to be careful about where they light up may not protect those around them.
What Is Secondhand Smoke?
It can come from a cigarette, cigar, or pipe. Tobacco smoke has more than 4,000 chemical compounds, at least 250 are known to cause disease.
Secondhand smoke makes you more likely to get lung cancer and many other types of cancer. It's also bad for your heart.
Every year in the U.S., secondhand smoke causes about 34,000 deaths from heart disease and 7,300 deaths from lung cancer, the CDC says.
Smoke makes your blood stickier, raises your "bad" LDL cholesterol, and damages the lining of your blood vessels. Eventually, these changes can make you more likely to have a heart attack or stroke.
Dangers for Children
Kids are particularly at risk for the effects of secondhand smoke because their bodies are still growing and they breathe at a faster rate than adults.
These conditions have been linked to secondhand smoke exposure in children:
- Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
- More respiratory infections (such as bronchitis and pneumonia)
- More severe and frequent asthma attacks
- Ear infections
- Chronic cough
Smoking during pregnancy is especially dangerous to the developing baby. It's tied to premature delivery, low birth weight, SIDS, limited mental ability, trouble with learning, and ADHD. The more cigarettes a mother-to-be smokes, the greater the danger to her baby.
How to Avoid Secondhand Smoke
It's simple: Avoid being around people who are smoking, and try to convince those around you who smoke to quit. Anyone who does smoke should do so outside, as far away from other people as possible.
Your home is probably the most important place to keep smoke-free, especially if you have children. Keeping kids (and adults) far away from smoke can help lower their chances of having respiratory infections, severe asthma, cancer, and many other serious conditions.
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The lineups have been set and first pitch is fast approaching.
On Saturday a couple of area softball players will join others from around the state for the 12th Annual MAC All-Star Fast Pitch Softball Game. Representing their schools will be catcher Allie Steadman of Eupora and right fielder Alaina Hill from East Webster.
Mississippi State head coach John Cohen couldn't understand why people were asking him when the Bulldogs were going to touch down in Charlottesville, Va., today.
The Bulldogs will leave Starkville today around 3:30 p.m. for an NCAA Super Regional and will land in Charlottesville, Va. around 7 p.m.
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The Mississippi State Bulldogs don't have to look far to get their questions answered about the trip they are making to Virginia.
All they have to do is turn to their strength coach Brian Neal.
It's been roughly three months since the Starkville Academy Lady Volunteers made their run to a trio of State titles, and things are finally starting to set in for coach Glenn Schmidt and her team of champions.
The Southeastern Conference has led the way when it comes college sports.
This year was no different.
The SEC will distribute approximately $289.4 million to the 14 schools in the league as part of the revenue sharing plan for the 2012-13 fiscal year, which ends Aug. 31.
Coach Doug Wilson has identified one area where the East Webster Wolverines have to improve if they are going to be the type of improved football team they want this fall.
It's going to take speed, speed and more speed.
Football and life are the hot topics at the Starkville Sportsplex this week.
Sleepy Robinson, a former Mississippi State University quarterback, and some of his friends have been spending their time hosting a football skills and life camp at the complex.
Former Mississippi State quarterbacks Sleepy Robinson and Greg Plump have some things in common.
Robinson and Plump were roommates during their time in Starkville, they both have thrown a touchdown pass in a bowl game, both were high school coaches on the sideline at Durant.
They are together again in Starkville this week at the Robinson Football/Life Skills camp at the Sportsplex.
Sleepy Robinson, Greg Plump, Robert Young, Charlie Davidson, Eric Moulds made a name for themselves during their football careers with the Mississippi State Bulldogs.
After their playing careers were over, they all went their separate ways and are successful in various areas of their lives.
John Cohen admitted Monday night that he probably couldn't name in players from Virginia's baseball team.
The fifth-year Mississippi State head coach was so locked into the three other teams at the Starkville Regional that he didn't have time to look ahead to Virginia.
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Bournville Village Conservation Area Design Guide - Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG)
Bournville Village is known internationally as an excellent example of the English Garden City movement. To protect its special character, we first designated it a conservation area in 1971.
This Design Guide is intended to give residents practical advice and information to help make repairs and improvements to properties, whilst maintaining the character of the area.
This is particular important as the properties are affected by extra planning controls because of the conservation area status. This document therefore also lists the types of alterations you will need planning permission for.
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CLEVELAND -- Former Ohio State coach Jim Tressel has joined a local TV station as a special contributor.
Tressel, who was forced out as the Buckeyes coach after 10 years at the school by a cash-for-tattoos scandal involving players, will do a weekly report for WKYC-TV. "A Moment With Jim Tressel," will air each Wednesday during the station's 7 p.m. newscast. Tressel currently works as a vice president of strategic engagement at the University of Akron, where he began his coaching career ...
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Rossnaree (or 'headland of the Kings') is a privately owned historic country estate in Slane, County Meath, located only 40 minutes from Dublin and less than an hour from Belfast. Rossnaree House id only 2K from Newgrange and 3K from Slane Village.
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Rossnaree has been transformed into a boutique bed and breakfast, offering four luxury rooms for guests and also an original venue for special events and artistic workshops. The proprietor Aisling Law has a private collection of Irish antiques and special artefacts from her travels in India and Africa combine beautifully to give Rossnaree an individual, eclectic style.
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Too often 'Western' historical narratives consider Africans and African Diasporans as 'People Without History'. Such a notion refers to peoples who cultures do not, or possess few formally written histories. This class employs archaeological evidence in order to investigate histories of imperialism, colonialism, genocide, slavery, resistance and black nationalism, dismantling the colonial library by exploring local histories once marginalized, silenced and erased.
This course focuses on the major themes, ideas and research entailed in the historical archaeology of the Africana experience, on both sides of the Atlantic, in Africa and in the Americas. Throughout this course we will adopt an interpretive framework that draws upon the use of objects, texts and oral narratives, thereby illustrating the historical and cultural continuities between Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora. We will begin by examining archaeological evidence from West Africa, exploring the impact of the Atlantic economy on African daily social life, for example shaping settlement patterns, architecture, sociopolitical organization and sociocultural practices. We will then focus on material from North America and the Caribbean, exploring the ways in which enslaved Africans in the diaspora interpreted their conditions in the Americas, addressing topics such as social, racial, ethnic, religious and gendered identities, power and inequality, resistance and maroonage.
The focus of this course is to examine the ways in which archaeological evidence can be interpreted to understand Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora in the past. A critical component of this class will also be to understand the historical underpinnings of contemporary issues in Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora, by tracing how the past is mobilized within the present. Whilst some of the readings address archaeological findings in detail, do not worry about the methodological aspects – our goal is to engage with the possibilities, problems and challenges presented by an archaeological approach of Atlantic Africa and the African diaspora in dialogue with other scholarly fields, in order to become critical, self-reflexive thinkers concerning the production of knowledge about the Africana experience.
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Undergraduate students of various concentrations are welcome. Students are expected to attend all class lectures and complete all assigned readings. This course will combine lecture with discussions of the readings. Lectures will highlight the major issues raised in the readings as well as provide supplementary examples. Readings will be examined more fully during class discussion. Attention and participation are essential. In the classroom, everyone's views and perspectives deserve to be heard. General questions to think about concerning the readings will be provided each week in class. Come to class prepared to discuss readings thoughtfully and critically. All readings must be completed by the first class of each week. All written assignments are due in hard copy at the start of class on the assigned date. Late assignments will be marked down a third of a grade for every twenty-four hour period. No incompletes will be given without prior arrangement.
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Betty Blue is a 1986 French film. Its original French title is 37° 2 le matin, meaning "37.2°C in the morning". The film was directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix and stars Béatrice Dalle and Jean-Hugues Anglade. It is based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Philippe Djian. The film had 3,632,326 admissions and was the eighth highest grossing film of the year in France.[2]
The film received both a BAFTA and Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986,[3] as well as winning a César Award for Best Poster. In 1992 it was awarded the Golden Space Needle of the Seattle International Film Festival.
In 2005 a director's cut was issued, with about an hour of extra footage.
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Betty (Dalle) and Zorg (Anglade) are passionate, sensual lovers who live in a shack on the beach. He works as a handyman. Zorg narrates the story of their relationship; he describes Betty as "like a flower with translucent antennae and a mauve plastic heart". She quit her last job as a waitress because she was sexually harassed by her boss.
Zorg's boss orders him and Betty to paint the 500 shacks that populate the beach. In response, Betty covers the boss's car with pink paint.
During a fight, Betty accidentally discovers a series of notebooks that contain a novel Zorg wrote years ago. Upon reading his novel, she believes in his genius as a writer and tries to convince Zorg of it. She is appalled at the menial work Zorg does and his philosophical attitude towards his situation. Zorg, tries to write again, but cannot become inspired. The boss demands that Betty leave, after Zorg is late again for work. Unbeknownst to Zorg whilst he is painting, Betty packs their things. When he comes back to the shack, Betty sets fire to it and they set off to live with Lisa, her best friend in the city.
Betty and Zorg move in to Lisa's place and Zorg does handywork in lieu of rent. Betty takes it upon herself to type up Zorg's novel to have it published. Zorg tries to start writing, but again fails to do so. Worse, Zorg receives rejection letters for his novel. Fearing Betty's reaction he hides them. Betty and Zorg are offered work at Lisa's boyfriend's (Eddy) restaurant. An awkward customer complains about Betty and she stabs her with a fork. When Betty discovers the rejection letters, she takes Zorg to the house of one of the publishers where she assaults the publisher by slashing his face. Zorg protects Betty by persuading the publisher to drop charges.
Eddy's mother dies and Zorg, Betty and Lisa accompany him to the funeral. Eddy inherits his mother's piano store and the house above it, and offers Betty and Zorg the opportunity to live there in return for minding the shop. Zorg continues to eke out a living as a handyman around the new neighborhood and befriends a local store owner, Bob. One day while Betty and Zorg are in bed, Zorg stumbles upon medication Betty is taking but Betty shrugs it off. Another attempt to write is frustrated. Betty continues to be disappointed by Zorg accepting an ordinary life and failing to reach his potential. A trivial row between them leads Betty to punch a window, cutting herself.
Despite using birth control, a pregnancy test is positive, but Zorg and Betty are overjoyed. Zorg buys onesies for the baby. Betty goes to the doctor and Zorg comes home one day to find a medical note that reads negative for pregnancy. Betty disappears and Zorg comes home the next day to find Betty distraught, mentally and physically. He tries to convince Betty of his love but Betty sinks into a deep depression. She says she hears voices and fears she is going mad. Zorg comes home one day to find blood splattered everywhere and Bob cleaning it up, Bob explains that Betty has gouged out her own eye.
Betty is sent to a mental hospital and is sedated. The doctor tells Zorg that she will need extreme treatment. His frustration with Betty's condition and the doctors cause him to assault the doctor and get kicked out of the hospital. He then gets news that someone wants to publish his book. He later returns, dressed as a woman, to visit Betty. She is sedated but restraints on the bed suggest she was struggling to escape. Zorg whispers his love into her ear and swears to tell their story. Zorg smothers her with a pillow from compassion. He returns home and makes chilli as he was doing the day Betty first came into his shack. The movie ends with him finally writing his next book and hearing the voice of Betty as he did when they were happy together.
- Jean-Hugues Anglade as Zorg
- Béatrice Dalle as Betty
- Gérard Darmon as Eddy
- Consuelo De Haviland as Lisa
- Clémentine Célarié as Annie
- Jacques Mathou as Bob
- Vincent Lindon as Richard, the young policeman
- Jean-Pierre Bisson as The commissaire (in the complete version)
- Dominique Pinon as The drug dealer (in the complete version)
- Bernard Hug (in the complete version)
- Catherine D'At
- Claude Aufaure as The doctor
- Louis Bellanti as Mario
- Dominique Besnehard as Client in pizzeria
- Raoul Billerey as The old policeman
See also[edit]
- List of submissions to the 59th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of French submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
- ^ http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=bettyblue.htm
- ^ http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=6168&affich=france
- ^ "The 59th Academy Awards (1987) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
External links[edit]
- Betty Blue at the Internet Movie Database
- Betty Blue at Rotten Tomatoes
- Betty Blue at Box Office Mojo


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The BMW boxer engine requires quite a bit of starter motor torque to spin the engine past compression stroke, especially at cold start. As each piston approaches TDC during starting, the starter motor current demand increases rapidly placing increased demand on the battery and other starter circuit components.
Li FePo batteries do not respond to this rising rate demand as well as a lead-acid battery. Hence, these batteries don't perform well in engine start applications. As such, if a Li battery is used in this application, considerably more battery capacity should be chosen over lead-acid to insure reliable starting.
Also, my diesel motorhome powerplant has a compression ratio of about 15.5:1. When cold, the starter needs lots of CCAs to spin the engine successfully without overloading the starter circuit. If the batteries are not fully charged, the current diminishes as pistons come to TDC placing further demand on the starter circuit, starter solenoid and wiring.
Yes, LiFePo batteries are light weight. They are fine for applications where there is a kick starter and the battery is used for ignition such as on moto cross bikes.
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MELBOURNE -- World No. 3 Novak Djokovic and U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro kicked off their Australian Open preparations with easy first-round wins at the Kooyong Classic in Melbourne on Wednesday.
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Don't know what the trade market for players like Harang and Phillips will be this spring, but Peter Gammons' latest indicates the club might do better to make a deal now than wait until this summer.
One quick observation from the Reds and Tigers lists, the Reds have a much better set of players and contracts to move."It's going to be very important for small and Rust Belt market teams to get off to good starts," one baseball management person says. "If they get off to bad starts, in this economy, fans may lose interest in a hurry. It's going to be hard to keep people paying in Detroit or Pittsburgh or Cincinnati if they're in a building mode, at least this season."
Hence, some of the richer teams have tucked cash away with the assumption that some franchises have to move contracts.
"The problem will be that the owners and general managers of distressed teams are going to have to realize that they're not going to get valued prospects for what, for them, are bad contracts," one GM says. "They may be put in very difficult positions of having to explain to their fans that they simply have to get out from under some contracts to afford to build from scouting and development."
The Tigers, for instance, are on the hook for nearly $140 million to Magglio Ordonez, Gary Sheffield, Carlos Guillen, Dontrelle Willis, Jeremy Bonderman and Nate Robertson. The Reds are on the hook for $100 million on Francisco Cordero, Aaron Harang, Bronson Arroyo and Brandon Phillips.


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Meet Cosmo is a non-member (formerly member) land adventure. It was the third adventure available in the Adventure Base Camp. On November 7, 2013, non-members were able to play this adventure. It introduces the premise for "The Hive" and a new weapon plant, the boomseed. The player will meet Cosmo, the Koala Alpha. A player can earn a total of about (may not be exact) 10,415 Gems on the Hard Mode of this adventure.
- Cosmo will greet and welcome the player to his home.
- After watering his crops, he will set the player objectives in gathering ingredients for a new plant, the Boomseed.
- The player will also visit Cosmo's den, in which they can find two of the needed ingredients for the Boomseed.
- After clearing the way, the player must make its way to the first of two caverns. To enter, the player must replicate a pattern which is the nightingale's song on bamboo flutes (Blue, green, orange, red, and purple).
- In the cavern, the player must navigate through the maze until the key is found and free Max, the koala.
- Doing so will allow the player to exit the cave into the next area, where Cosmo will inform the player of a new danger; Phantom Sprouters, dangerous plants which will sprout phantoms.
- After dealing with some sprouters, the player must fix a bridge by trading apples and bananas for rope and timber, and then cross it to find the next cave.
- In this last cave, there is a tiger gate in both modes. It is right at the bottom of the cave where the player will spot a little hole and a place to put boomseeds. (In hard mode, after opening the tiger gate, the path will then split off into three parts: a gate for Elephants, Raccoons, and Koalas.)
Extra Tasks
This adventure has many secondary tasks that make it one of the most profitable Adventures to go on, in both Gems and Courage Points. They include:
- After rescuing Max, the koala trapped in the first cave, the player can take a carrot to Rosalind, the koala by the bamboo pipes and vine ladder, and they will give the player Gems and Courage Points.
- After rescuing Max, the koala trapped in the first cave, the player can take an orange to Liam, the koala outside the first den as the player leaves Cosmo's garden, and they will give you Gems and Courage Points.
- After placing all of the corks in the phantomized pipes, the player can return and talk to Franklin, the koala in the second den the player sees after leaving Cosmo's garden (between the two caves), they will give the player Gems and Courage Points.
- After reviving all the phantomized plants (they are all over and change places each time you play), the player can return and talk to Gregor, the koala in the first den the player sees after leaving Cosmo's garden, and they will give the player Gems and Courage Points.
- After fixing the bridge to the final cave, the player can return the Moth to Tobias, the koala in the last den the player sees who traded rope for an apple, and they will give the player Gems and Courage Points.
- After fixing the bridge to the final cave, the player can give a Rose to Zosi, the koala in the last den the player sees who traded timber for banana, and they will give the player Gems and CP.
- Phantom sprouters will spawn many phantoms. Instead of blowing the sprouters up right away, the player can let all the phantoms come out for more Gems and Courage Points.
Rewards On Normal Mode
- Top Left: 750 Gems
- Top Center: Beehive
- Top Right: Greenhouse Window
- Bottom Left: Wall Garden
- Bottom Right: Cosmo's Hammock
Rewards On Hard Mode
- Top Left: Blue Glowing Mushrooms
- Top Center: Cosmo's Stone Wall
- Top Right: 1500 Gems
- Bottom Left: Boomseed Tree
- Bottom Right: 1000 Gems
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- Fancy Top Hat (Various Colors)
- Hat and Beard (Various Colors)
- Lollipop Necklace (Various Colors)
- Heart Locket (Various Colors)
- Jolly Elf Hat
- Worn Blanket (Various Colors)
- Rare Fox Hat (Various Colors)
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Today, the Yankees finally put the whipping mule known as Chris Dickerson out of its misery.His only crime, as Mike A at River Ave eulogized, was to be a left-handed outfielder on a team laden - some might say top-heavy - with left-handed outfielders. He was dropped so the Yankees could sign Russ Canzler off the scrap heap. Canzler, jettisoned by the Cleveland Indians, bats right. That's how it works. C-Dick spent last year exiled to the New York State Thruway, eating Sbaro's microwave pizza and holding his pee between the Geneva and Syracuse exits. He hit over .300, earned a September coffee break and played well with the Yankees - 2 home runs, 5 RBIs, 3 stolen bases, in 14 at bats - not that anybody cared.This happened around the time that Curtis Granderson was turning into a blind version of Dave King Kong Kingman, chasing the elusive 200 whiff barrier, and prompting the Yankees to eye the season-long-injured Brett Gardner as a Grandish replacement. Good grief, Dickerson could ha...
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Our family transport (an enormous Chevy Suburban) is known to us as The TARDIS. If you watch the british television series Doctor Who then you'll recognize the reference. If you don't, you have my deepest sympathies and you're out of luck and will have to watch an episode to understand. The name arose last summer when I proposed that the family go visit Historic Fort Snelling for a Saturday outing. I knew, like mothers often do, that the children would really enjoy the place, but I couldn't figure out how to describe it in a way that could engage their enthusiasm. So, I lied.
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I love, LOVE scripted radio programming: book adaptations, dramas, mysteries, comedies, sci-fi, quiz shows, political humor. It's television for the mind and it's utterly brilliant. I have a vivid imagination and a odd affinity for diction and vocal tone quality. The voices and sound effects in the truly good programs paint a high-definition, technicolor image in my brain that rivals anything that modern television and film can produce.
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Just because you are paid to write doesn't mean you're better. During last week's episode of NCIS the wife of a director of a large federal criminal investigation agency offers assistance to a strange woman lurking in a car on the street at the front of the wife's house. Husband realizes it's a dangerous assasin and runs out of the front door, gun drawn, yelling at wife to get down. Long-time wife of this long-time agent turns to her husband and says...
"What?!" in a beleaguered, confused tone of voice, and making no move whatsoever to get out of the line of fire. Is it just me or is that possibly the stupidest thing any writer could have asked that character to say in that situation? Or maybe it's the director who's stupid and changed the lines. Heaven forbid that the actress actually lobbied to have her character be so utterly brain-dead. If my husband had been an FBI type agent for most of our married life and came running toward me, gun drawn, shouting to get out of the way, I'd drop on the spot. I mean honestly, how many times does one's husband come running out all upset like that. You'd think that she'd some respect for his combat skills and ability to assess dangerous situations. Never mind how stupid it was to confront an unknown individual lurking in an unknown car without taking anyone with her or letting anyone know what she's doing. Even I mention that to my husband before I go out to check on something and he's not any sort of law enforcement agent.*snerk* my first thought was "any fanfiction author worth his/her salt would have written it differently." Thank goodness Castle is better written, so far. The twists and turns of last Monday's episode were highly entertaining. The only thing that lets me know when we don't have the killer yet is the time left on the clock. Anyone they arrest before 10 minutes to the hour can't possibly be the killer no matter how the evidence looks so far. I'd love to have them abandon that formula sometime, though. Go ahead, really suprise me.
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Your perfect HP man is Bill Weasley.
You like guys who are cool. And not cool in that fake, dicky way, but actually cool. He's so cool that they couldn't find any actor to adequately portray him, so they decided to just leave him out of the movies rather than risk not doing justice to his coolness. He's like the Chuck Norris of Harry Potter: plain freaking awesome. When Voldemort says "You-Know-Who", he's talking about Bill Weasley.
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I've been looking for contact information for a dear friend whose email address I'd lost last winter when my computer crashed. I found her. She's an assistant principal at a middle school in Indiana. After sending out an email to her, I made the mistake of looking up other people I knew in college. An old boyfriend, my freshman roommate, a neighbor from my junior year – all of whom have made a HUGE splash in the business world and are described in glowing terms by their employers and reporters in their field journals.
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Rider had already clinched a District 9-4A championship, but the Lady Raiders decided they could use a good does of momentum going into the playoffs.
And Nikki Neal apparently wanted to make up for lost time.
Neal capped off her banner day by controlling the midfield and scoring a goal as the Lady Raiders defeated rival Wichita Falls High School 3-0 Friday night at Memorial Stadium.
Earlier in the day, Neal signed to play college soccer at Central Christian Collage in McPherson College.
The rivalry was put away in pregame as the two teams stood together before the to support MADD and at halftime Rider senior Payton Becker spoke with passion on the subject before her peers and the crowd about the loss of her father to a drunken driver.
On the field the Lady Raiders took control, specifically Neal, who had missed the previous meeting, a 0-0 draw with Old High.
"It definitely brought nerves, but I was more excited," Neal said of her big day. "We're just glad, especially the seniors, to win our last Rider-Old High game.
"I wasn't here for the last one (because of a cosmetology competition) and I definitely wanted to come out hard for this one."
To begin the game the Lady Coyotes had the wind and the first few chances thanks to some nice plays from Haley Hansen. The sophomore served in two good corner kicks and took a free kick from just outside the top of the box.
But Rider (19-4-3, 9-0-1) began to take control and took the lead for good in the 18th minute on a goal by Bailey Enriquez, who finished off a cross in the box.
Neal scored a free kick in the 35th minute to make it 2-0 at intermission and Courtney Boe scored on an assist from Brianna Watkins in the 64th minute.
"I think we won't be too confident, but I think we'll have this on our shoulders to know we can play this well," Neal said. "We have so many seniors on the team. We want it really bad."
The Lady Raiders will play either Birdville or Boswell in the area round of the Region I-4A playoffs. Rider coach Carl Wiersema said it'll be at home either Friday (Birdville) or Saturday (Boswell).
He saw a lot of things he liked in the final regular-season game.
"Our goalkeeping was there and that was good to see, and the combinations we put together we really nice tonight," Wiersema said. "I felt like we had a lot of chances and it was nice to see some go in.
"It's always a good match but I thought we had the better of play. Nikki, I'm going to hate to lose her, and Brianna Watkins, throwing bicycle kicks, our girls really stepped up today. I like the feeling going into the playoffs."
The Lady Coyotes, who finished second in the district race at 6-2-2, will also have a first-round bye.
"I wished we could have saved one of those set pieces we scored against Gainesville — (four of them) — for tonight," WFHS coach Rob Woodard said. "Haley Hansen, (who had two assists in the previous game), served those right where we wanted them. But we just couldn't capitalize on that.
"We're still playing. Any time these two play it's an emotional game and coming together in support of MADD was very emotional. But my message to the girls was this isn't it. We're still playing."
The Lady Coyotes will play a warm-up match with Amarillo Caprock at 5 p.m. Monday at Memorial Stadium.
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