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Born in England to parents of Nigerian descent, Yinka Shonibare explores the cultural duality of his upbringing through work that is informed by the complex and contradictory history of colonialism and the attendant dynamics of power, race, and class. His multidisciplinary practice, which includes painting, photography, sculpture, and installation, converges with his relentless fascination with the politics of representation. Through cultural symbols such as the batik, a type of textile with colorfully patterned motifs, Shonibare uncovers the often murky territory of authenticity.
Used widely throughout the African diaspora for everything from head wraps to tablecloths, the batik is a loaded subject. Although typically associated as a marker of African culture and usurped in modern times as a symbol of nationalism and empowerment, its history reveals something quite different. The cloth actually originated in Indonesia, where it was exported to Holland during the Dutch colonization of that country. Via these colonial trade routes, the fabric was introduced throughout Europe and then appropriated in Africa in the early nineteenth century. This is where Shonibare's work begins.
In his elaborate installations and sculptural works, he creates tableaux of Victorian proportions, taking period parlor rooms and characters straight out of Thomas Gainsborough paintings and literally dressing them up with batik cloths. Shonibare's signature works are physical manifestations of cultures clashing. In Dysfunctional Family (1999), he uses the textile to mask a group of figures resembling aliens. The title plays off and destabilizes bourgeois definitions of the family unit and the enterprise of acceptance and alienation. The artist deals with the perversity of norms and deconstructs the binary relationships between high and low, race and class, the colonized and the colonizer. In doing so, Shonibare eloquently expresses the layered and often overlapping experiences that constitute the self-consciousness of a postcolonial world.


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Why do we behave differently in crowds? An "angry" mob and "herd mentality," – are terms frequently used to describe events like the London Riots of 2011. But is there really something in us that changes when we are in a large crowd?
The French 19th Century psychologist Le Bon, believed that in a crowd we lose our minds, our sense of self and with it our moral compass. If he's right, can we really be responsible for our actions when we are in a crowd? And should this be taken into consideration in criminal trials?
Or do large crowds have their own social identity, an identity which can be peaceful or violent. Some social psychologists think the difference between an angry mob and a peaceful crowd often depends on how that crowd is treated by the authorities. Are they right? Or is the morphing of a crowd into a mob a completely random phenomena?
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Chapter 12
The language of the Vril-ya is peculiarly interesting, because it seems to me to exhibit
with great clearness the traces of the three main transitions through which language
passes in attaining to perfection of form.
One of the most illustrious of recent philologists, Max Muller, in arguing for the analogy
between the strata of language and the strata of the earth, lays down this absolute dogma:
"No language can, by any possibility, be inflectional without having passed through the
agglutinative and isolating stratum. No language can be agglutinative without clinging
with its roots to the underlying stratum of isolation."- 'On the Stratification of Language,'
p. 20.
Taking then the Chinese language as the best existing type of the original isolating
stratum, "as the faithful photograph of man in his leading-strings trying the muscles of his
mind, groping his way, and so delighted with his first successful grasps that he repeats
them again and again," (Max Muller, p. 13)- we have, in the language of the Vril-ya, still
"clinging with its roots to the underlying stratum," the evidences of the original isolation.
It abounds in monosyllables, which are the foundations of the language. The transition
into the agglutinative form marks an epoch that must have gradually extended through
ages, the written literature of which has only survived in a few fragments of symbolical
mythology and certain pithy sentences which have passed into popular proverbs. With the
extant literature of the Vril-ya the inflectional stratum commences. No doubt at that time
there must have operated concurrent causes, in the fusion of races by some dominant
people, and the rise of some great literary phenomena by which the form of language
became arrested and fixed. As the inflectional stage prevailed over the agglutinative, it is
surprising to see how much more boldly the original roots of the language project from
the surface that conceals them. In the old fragments and proverbs of the preceding stage
the monosyllables which compose those roots vanish amidst words of enormous length,
comprehending whole sentences from which no one part can be disentangled from the
other and employed separately. But when the inflectional form of language became so far
advanced as to have its scholars and grammarians, they seem to have united in extirpating
all such polysynthetical or polysyllabic monsters, as devouring invaders of the aboriginal
forms. Words beyond three syllables became proscribed as barbarous and in proportion
as the language grew thus simplified it increased in strength, in dignity, and in sweetness.
Though now very compressed in sound, it gains in clearness by that compression. By a
single letter, according to its position, they contrive to express all that with civilised
nations in our upper world it takes the waste, sometimes of syllables, sometimes of
sentences, to express. Let me here cite one or two instances: An (which I will translate
man), Ana (men); the letter 's' is with them a letter implying multitude, according to
where it is placed; Sana means mankind; Ansa, a multitude of men. The prefix of certain
letters in their alphabet invariably denotes compound significations. For instance, Gl
(which with them is a single letter, as 'th' is a single letter with the Greeks) at the
commencement of a word infers an assemblage or union of things, sometimes kindred,
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Brain and Spinal Cord Defects
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- Brain and Spinal Cord Defects
These defects can occur in early or late fetal development.
Typical symptoms include intellectual disability, paralysis, incontinence, or loss of sensation in some parts of the body.
The diagnosis is based on computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging.
Some defects can be repaired surgically, but brain or spinal cord damage is usually permanent.
Of the many possible defects in the brain and spinal cord, those known as neural tube defects develop within the first weeks of pregnancy. Others, such as porencephaly and hydranencephaly, develop later in pregnancy. Many brain and spinal cord defects result in visible abnormalities in the head or back.
Symptoms of brain or spinal cord damage may develop if the defect affects brain or spinal cord tissue. Brain damage can be fatal or result in mild or severe disabilities which may include mental retardation/intellectual disability, seizures, and paralysis. Spinal cord damage can result in paralysis, incontinence, and loss of sensation to areas of the body reached by nerves below the level of the defect (see Where Is the Spinal Cord Damaged?). Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can reveal brain and spinal cord defects by showing pictures of the internal structures of those organs.
Some defects, such as those that cause visible openings or swellings, can be repaired surgically. Although brain or spinal cord damage from the defect is usually permanent, surgery can help prevent further complications and improve function. Some children have near-normal development as a result of prompt surgical intervention.
Neural Tube Defects
Neural tube defects can result in nerve damage, learning disabilities, paralysis, and death.
The diagnosis can be made before birth and is based on a blood test, an amniotic fluid test, and an ultrasound.
Folate (folic acid) taken before conception and during the first trimester can help prevent these defects.
Surgery is needed to close neural tube defects.
The brain and spinal cord develop as a groove that folds over to become a tube (the neural tube). Layers of tissue that come from this tube normally become the brain and spinal cord and their covering tissues, including part of the spine and the meninges. Sometimes the neural tube does not develop normally, which may affect the brain, spinal cord, and meninges. In the most severe form of neural tube defect, the brain tissue may fail to develop (anencephaly); this defect is fatal. Another type of defect results when the neural tube fails to close completely and remains an open channel. In its mildest form, an open channel defect may affect only bone. For example, in spina bifida occulta (which means hidden spine split in two), the bony spine fails to close, but the spinal cord and meninges are unaffected. This common abnormality causes no symptoms. Sometimes, a meningocele develops in which the meninges and other tissue, such as brain tissue (meningoencephalocele) or spinal cord tissue (meningomyelocele), can protrude out of the opening. Sometimes the meninges are not involved when tissue protrudes from the brain (encephalocele) or spinal cord (myelocele). Damage to brain or spinal cord tissue is much more likely when tissue protrudes than when it does not.
Spina Bifida: A Defect of the Spine
In occult spinal dysraphism, newborns are born with visible abnormalities on their lower back. These include birthmarks, overly pigmented areas (hemangioma and flame nevus), tufts of hair, openings in the skin (dermal sinus), or small lumps (masses). The underlying spinal cord may be connected to the surface, which exposes it to bacteria, greatly increasing the chance for development of meningitis. The nerves of the spinal cord may become damaged as the child grows. Or, the spinal cord may have a fatty tumor (lipoma) on it, which also can lead to nerve damage. Therefore, newborns who have these abnormalities should have the underlying soft tissue and spinal cord evaluated using ultrasonography or MRI.
Genetic factors can make neural tube defects more likely. The defect often develops before the mother knows she is pregnant. Most symptoms caused by neural tube defects result from brain or spinal cord damage. Meningoencephaloceles and meningomyeloceles cause severe disability. These include water on the brain (hydrocephalus), learning disabilities, paralysis with bone and joint abnormalities, decreased sensation of the skin, and bowel and urinary problems.
Many neural tube defects can be detected before birth. A high level of alpha-fetoprotein in the woman's blood or amniotic fluid may indicate a neural tube defect in the fetus (see Screening of the Pregnant Woman). Ultrasonography performed late in pregnancy may show the defect or characteristic abnormalities. Folate taken before a woman gets pregnant and through the first 3 months of pregnancy can decrease the risk of neural tube defects by as much as 50%. For this reason, women of child-bearing age are encouraged to take folate if they think that they may become pregnant. Neural tube defects are usually closed surgically.
Hydrocephalus is an accumulation of extra fluid in the normal open spaces within the brain (ventricles), usually causing an enlarged head and developmental problems.
The fluid surrounding the brain (cerebrospinal fluid) is produced in spaces within the brain called ventricles. The fluid must drain to a different area, where it is absorbed into the blood. When the fluid cannot drain, hydrocephalus (water on the brain) develops. Hydrocephalus often increases the pressure in the ventricles, which compresses the brain. Many conditions, such as a birth defect, bleeding within the brain (often associated with prematurity), or brain tumors, can block drainage and cause hydrocephalus.
An abnormally large head may be a symptom of untreated hydrocephalus. The infant usually does not develop normally. CT, ultrasonography, or MRI of the head reveals the diagnosis as well as the degree of brain compression.
The goal of treatment is to keep pressure normal within the brain. A permanent alternate drainage path (shunt) for cerebrospinal fluid decreases the pressure and volume of the fluid inside the brain. A doctor places the shunt in the ventricles in the brain and runs it under the skin from the head to another site, usually the abdomen (ventriculoperitoneal shunt). The shunt contains a valve that allows fluid to leave the brain if the pressure becomes too high. Although a few children can eventually do without the shunt as they get older, shunts are rarely removed. On occasion, a surgical hole placed between the third and fourth ventricles (ventriculostomy) may treat the hydrocephalus.
If needed, pressure within the brain can often be temporarily reduced with repeated spinal taps (lumbar punctures) until a shunt is placed.
Some children with hydrocephalus develop normal intelligence. Others, especially those who develop hydrocephalus early in the pregnancy, are mentally retarded/intellectually disabled, or have learning disabilities.
Microcephaly is an abnormally small head.
Often the head is small because the brain is small and abnormally developed. Thus, affected newborns have symptoms of brain damage. Various disorders can cause microcephaly, including the following:
- Chromosomal and genetic abnormalities
- Other brain defects
- Hereditary metabolic disorders
- Lack of oxygen before or during birth
- Exposure to drugs or toxins before birth
- Severe undernutrition
- Severe metabolic problems that develop before or during birth (for example, hypoglycemia or hypothyroidism)
- Infections (for example, rubella, cytomegalovirus, syphilis, or possibly Zika virus)
Microcephaly is recognized when doctors measure head circumference during routine examinations of the newborn. Doctors evaluate the newborn and parents to look for possible causes of microcephaly and then test for any causes they suspect.
Symptoms of brain damage are treated. Some disorders causing microcephaly can be treated.
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Flash freeze in Russia!!! WTF is going on???
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unless you are homeless, I have seen dead homeless people in downtown Calgary who froze overnight. Russia probably douse not have social services as good as ours mind you I know next to nothing about today's Russia and how good the social programs are there. You would think being Russia most of the housing would have excellent heating and insulation but maybe all the money is still going to the rich instead of the needy.
i once rescued someone from being frozen to death on a -32 degree night, also in Calgary. I don't know if she was homeless, but she was passed out from drinking. I'm going to guess that, except where power went out, that's the case for most of the dead in Russia, too.
Some of them will have been homeless people who weren't drunk, but most people who live on the sreets of cold cities are pretty resourceful if they're sober and not too sick. Anyhow, I agree with you, the problem in Moscow and St Petersburg isn't the temperature (or poorly insulated housing) -- it's the social conditions.
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I take my shock back...I miscalculated when I read the article. So -14F, I would have thought that wasn't that unusual for Russia?
...not that I would want to be in weather that cold, though!
are most of the posters on this thread fooken stupid??
the linked article is all in degrees......degrees are colder than Fahrenheit
-20c is a lot colder than -20f
BUT I repeat the article states all temps in DEGREES
Since they do not use the Fahrenheit scale in Russia it is safe to say they mean Celsius.
Temperature in Fahrenheit = (9/5)*(Temp in Celsius) + 32
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They got used to absence of winter and now some completely unforeseen development has caused sudden and extreme unpredictable temperature gradients across the northern hemisphere. The temperature dropped 34 degrees in 1 hour here last night in East Texas accompanied by hurricane like winds that caused the electricity to go off.Quoting: Anonymous Astrophysicist 1100813
Incidentally, back during the day when we wee having normal winters I lived 50 miles sw Of Montreal in extreme northeastern New York state.-30F was common, the coldest I ever saw was -46F and we had two months straight in the late 70's where the temperature never exceeded 0 F.
One winter the river in back of my house froze solid all the way to the bottom (The Raquette River) and when it finally thawed in mid June all of the fish were floating on the surface. People were riding snow machines on the ice in may and early June and there were remnants of the 20 ft+ high snow drifts along the edges of forests and fences in July..
No one even mentioned "ice age", and as i remember it as a child we simply adapted and remained active outside in the extreme cold, utilizing techniques like aluminum foil wrapped around our feet to reflect heat back in to portable hand warmers and even electric socks. Putting woolen socks over your mittens kept your hands warm when riding snow machines, and a full face coverage helmet would keep your head warm with a touk worn under it. That and many layers of clothing and -30 feels warm on a sunny wind free day, and it usually is wind free when that cold.
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It's not. But we are 2 days away from..... Certain doom.
record temp in northern Maine is 65 below 0 back in the mid eighties. I would assume 20 to 30 below would be common place in Russia at this time of year. I personally have seen 14 days of 30 beow 0 around the 70's in Portland Maine. At that temp for that period of time the snow actually squeaks unde foot. Great fun at 20 below is to take boiling water and throw it into the air and watch it vaporize before it hits the ground due to the very low humidity at that temp.
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When Captain James Cook sailed into Hawke Bay (which he named after Admiral Edward Hawke) on October 15, 1769, the crew of the Endeavour were met north of Bluff Hill by canoes of Maori.
Cook's attempts to trade were not successful that afternoon as he found the Maori hostile but, as some commentators have pointed out, their unfriendly acts may have been a challenge, which Cook, only in the country nine days, culturally misunderstood.
The next day some trade was made possible, with Cook remarking of a change in attitude by Maori from the previous day. However, Tayeto, the servant boy (one version says son) of the Tahitian interpreter, Tupia, was lowered over the ship's side to hand over goods and, as they were traded, was grabbed by Maori and put on board a canoe. A local newspaper's version to mark Cook's 120-year anniversary of his arrival in Hawke's Bay, stated that a shot was fired at the Maori canoeists (over their heads) who were paddling like fury for the shore and, in the confusion, Tayeto jumped out and swam back to the Endeavour. This was not likely the full story and, in the 1840s, missionary William Colenso was able to find out the names of the two Maori that Cook's men shot dead in that incident and the one injured man.
When Cook left to sail past the cape, he called it Cape Kidnappers in view of the event that had just occurred.
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Anyone who has ever tuned in to the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee finals on ESPN in the spring have gotten a sense of just how hardcore kids can get when arranging letters into words, but imagine if Bees were bigger than football, basketball, soccer and every other pro sporting event combined? Writer Ananth Panagariya and artist Tessa Stone are taking readers to such a pace this December with their original graphic novel, Buzz!, which is due out in December from Oni Press. Readers don't have to worry about skimming the story like a textbook as they immediately meet Webster, a meek soon-to-be high school freshman who finds himself sucked into the seedier side of his world's magical realism-infused spelling scene and must fight to survive through bee after bee on his way to the top. ComicsAlliance reached out to Panagariya for his word on Buzz!. Click through for the full interview.


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She steps gingerly on a 7m fluorescent yellow belt hooked just below the bumper of a car and the deck of a relative's beach house in Waimarama, half an hour south of Hastings.
Effectively Piera Hudson is walking a tightrope on a crisp spring day.
Hawke's Bay photographer Glenn Taylor zooms in for a shot. The 16-year-old wobbles and loses her perch.
Unfazed, the teenager from Tikokino bounces straight back into the balance act. The steely determination etched on her face is unmistakable as she treads, egg-shell fashion, to the bumper.
Her face breaks into a triumphant smile as her parents, Fiona and John Hudson, watch from a comfortable distance. The family dalmatians, Dougal and Poppy, go nuts.
Fiona explains the need for her daughter to work on power strength as the cardio tends to drop off as the Hawke's Bay alpine ski racer attempts to acquire a state of ski fitness.
The Hudson family is making the most of the Bay weather before Hudson hits the powdery slopes of exotic Canadian and European ski locations to realise her dream of making the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, in 2014.
If Hudson is metaphorically walking a tightrope, it's definitely in the money stakes as her family helps her embark on "We're Taking Hawke's Bay to the Winter Olympics" with a cocktail party at Birdwoods Gallery, in Havelock North, on Wednesday next week from 6pm.
Needing $136,000 a year to achieve her goal, the Hudsons hope to raise about $30,000 in next week's cocktail from the generosity of the province.
"We're appealing to the business community to help raise the funds so to get some support will just be fantastic - anything, really," Fiona says, after the family sold their Tikokino farm to live at a relative's home until the New Year.
Alpine skiing, considered a minority sport, receives no funds from the Government.
While, for argument's sake, BMX rider Sarah Walker, in a field of 141 elite riders, receives financial support and reaps the benefits of high performance academies, Hudson frustratingly finds no respite among a field of 6000 elite female skiers internationally.
Fiona's business, Cinta Research, a national firm focusing primarily on the agricultural sector, is Hudson's main sponsor.
Piera has a number of international equipment sponsors and receives a grant from the Jarrod Cunningham Trust and Sport Hawke's Bay, which cover a small proportion of the costs.
If Hudson, a Super G, giant slalom and slalom skier, makes it to the Sochi Winter Olympics she'll create history as the the first Bay person to do so.
"I'm really determined to go there. I'll be 18 on the opening ceremony [February 7] day so it'll be an awesome experience because I've always wanted to represent New Zealand at the Winter Olympics," says the youngster who favours the high-speed Super G and giant slalom to a sedate slalom.
"In slalom you hit the poles too much and it slows you down," says the country's third best slalom racer who clocks 116km/h over a 2km downhill run in the Super G.
Hudson is circumspect about finding a place on the podium to the tune of God Defend New Zealand in her first foray into the Winter Olympics.
Instead, she expects to get her feelers out at Sochi to gauge everything from the atmosphere to her elite rivals' demeanour but definitely fancies chasing medals in the subsequent Games.
Weight for weight, pound for pound, she is the eighth best in the world for her age group in Super G and has an overall world ranking in the low 300s.
Her New Zealand coach, Jonny Rice, puts that in perspective: "After a successful first season it is often difficult for a young racer to back up their results in their second international year.
"With international podium finishes this Southern Hemisphere season she has proven she has the ability to perform when it counts and not only consolidate last year's excellent successes but to eclipse them. She is on track to put New Zealand back on the map in the most competitive of all winter sports," says the elite women's coach at the Cardrona High Performance Centre, in Wanaka, who speaks fluent German.
"He puts Post It notes on items like the TV and everyday things because German basics is very useful in having a light conversation," says a grinning Hudson, who intends taking German as a subject.
Hudson has been based at the Cardrona centre for the first part of the season, finishing second in the FIS Tech Series against an internationally ranked field of 35.
Last year she competed in the World Juniors but this year a tighter schedule means she'll go straight to the FIS Alpine World Ski Championship to mix it with the big guns at Schladming, Styria, in Austria, from February 4-17 next year.
How has a girl from dusty, rural Tikokino dreamt of Winter Olympics?
"I mean we've always had the Ruahine Ranges in the background but we always went on skiing holidays when I was a kid so we went to Cardrona [her favourite skifield in the world] and I learned to ski at an early age."
It hasn't been easy staying away from home six to nine months each year, sometimes not experiencing a decent summer.
"It can be hard because you don't see your family, friends and pets but there are so many other rewards you get from skiing that make it worthwhile," says Hudson who has embraced online schooling because it's too hard to revert to a classroom environment after a nomadic lifestyle.
Yesterday she was catching up with her skiing boyfriend, Charlie Raposo, 16, of London, who is at an American academy.
They will meet again at Christmas in Switzerland but before that, Hudson will be the guest of German women's coach, Thomas Stauffer, to train and race with his stable in Hinterreit skifield, in Sweden, and Norway.
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[ad#post_ad]Today the first Volts have arrived to dealerships from Detroit, and are being picked up by customers across the nation. Today there will be 5 simultaneous deliveries including one to a retired airline pilot named Jeffrey Kaffee, in Denville, NJ who is the first overall. Kaffee traded in his Prius for the Volt. With the number of deliveries multiplying rapidly in the coming day weeks and months, people taking ownership now have to now decide whether to buy or lease the car.
At an MRSP of $41,000 the cutting-edge Volt comes in at a relatively affordable $33,500 after the $7500 federal tax credit it deducted. GM's banking partners have formulated some creative methods for dealing with the credit such as floating the buyer a zero interest separate $7500 loan that comes due when they get their tax refund.
The lease option was created to make the car even more affordable, making the car available to a larger group of drivers.
The terms of the lease were spelled out in the Summer as $350 per month with $2500 down for a 36 month lease with 36,000 miles.
What hasn't been known is what the car's residual value will be at the end of the lease, and what the customer could then buy it for.
Volt marketing manager John Hughes notes that every deal "will be a little different," and "depends on the equipment and how the deal is written."
"There's some variability in it," he said. "We've given dealers all the parameters."
Rather than spell out those subtleties for us and long with the myriad of disclaimers that accompany them, Hughes said it was best we "talk to dealers to ask details."
Gordon Lai, a sales manager at Singh Chevrolet in Riverside, California, offers us the following details which he said came directly from GM:
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Term: 36 Months
Selling Price: $41,000.00 [If dealer charges more, the payments change upward.]
Acquisition Fee: $695.00
Cap Cost Reduction: $2,000.00
Down Payment: $2,150.00
Balance/Amt. Financed: $37,545.00
Program Rate: 0.60
Program Residual: 43.00% (12,001 miles to 15,000 miles per year)
Low Miles Residual: 44.00% (12,000 miles or LESS per year)
Base Residual Value: $18,040.00
Federal Credit: $7,500.00
Contract Residual Value: $25,540.00
Program Payment: $349.51
Featured Payment: $350.00
First Month's Payment: $349.51
Down Payment: $2,150.00
Security Deposit: $0.00
DUE AT LEASE SIGNING: $2,499.51* [plus fees noted below]
Advertised Due at Signing: $2,500.00
Total Monthly Payments: $12,582.36
Disposition Fee: $395.00 (Due at Lease End)
*Other Fees Due at Signing: All DMV Registration Fees, DMV Doc Fee, 8.75% Sales Tax on First Payment.
"The figures above are SPECIFICALLY for a Base Model Volt sold at MSRP only ($41,000)," said Lai. "Add any options, dealer markups, increases in Sales Tax, etc… and the Payment goes up, or the 'Out-of-Pocket' down payment goes up."
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Here is a portion of the transcript from Anderson Cooper's 360 Degrees show on CNN on August 16, 2005 about Cindy Sheehan & Camp Casey.
They also discussed a comment people claimed that she said that her son "died for Israel." On last night's show, Cooper asked Cindy Sheehan about this comment and she denied having said it. Here's what he said on tonight's show:
COOPER: Well, today, we've received numerous e-mails from viewers who saw that, and said, "Well, she lied. We read online that ABC News confirmed she sent them a letter saying exactly that."
So we contacted ABC News today about it. They said they had received a letter on behalf of Cindy back in March. They said took it seriously enough that they responded to it, but so far they cannot find the actual e-mail, they say. They say they're trying to find it, they're investigating.
Bottom line, ABC News right now does not seem to be confirming this is what Cindy Sheehan wrote to them, so stay tuned. We'll continue to follow.
Following is the portion of the transcript that discusses Cindy Sheehan and Camp Casey:
COOPER: All right. Daniel, we'll continue to follow it. Thanks.
In Crawford, Texas, a protest against the war in Iraq has turned into a battle, really, of words. Some folks living near President Bush's ranch are not happy with Cindy Sheehan's demonstration. She's been camping out, as you probably know, along the road leading to the president's ranch, trying to get an audience with the president to talk about her son who died in Iraq.
Now, dozens of people have joined her, hundreds at times. More than 60 local residents have signed a petition now to get the protesters to move. One man went even farther today, allegedly using his truck to mow down memorial crosses and American flags in the dead of night. CNN's White House correspondent Dana Bash has more.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) DANA BASH, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It happened in the dead of the night. The way witnesses tell it, a man chained a metal pipe to the side of his pickup and knocked down hundreds of crosses antiwar demonstrators erected along the road.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I could hear the pipe clanging. I could see the damage of the crosses.
BASH: Each cross bears the name of a soldier killed in Iraq.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He just ran over 78 American flags, right down that road there, and I'm not very happy with it.
BASH: The 59-year-old man responsible was arrested and charged with criminal mischief shortly after the incident, found fixing a flat with part of a cross stuck in a tire. Iraq veteran Charles Anderson, here to support Cindy's cause, helped clean up.
CHARLES ANDERSON, IRAQ WAR VETERAN: This is a memorial to the fallen (INAUDIBLE) that someone would do this is just unthinkable to me.
BASH: These crosses lined the sprawling property owned by Melissa Harrison.
MELISSA HARRISON, CRAWFORD, TEXAS, RESIDENT: I was embarrassed, actually. I was embarrassed that someone would do that.
BASH: But Melissa is fed up and says Cindy Sheehan's Crawford vigil is disruptive and dangerous. She was one of several Bush neighbors to speak before the county commission Tuesday in support of a petition to move Sheehan's Camp Casey.
Melissa and other conservative locals back the president, not Sheehan, but say she does have a right to protest. They just want it someplace else. They call the traffic, the tents, the strangers sleeping outside a safety hazard. Cindy's response?
CINDY SHEEHAN, SON DIED IN IRAQ: The minute George Bush speaks with me, we'll be gone. And we are doing everything we can do to cooperate with them, be good neighbors. We're not noisy. I don't see any traffic. We're not noisy, I don't see any traffic.
BASH: But just hours later, she agreed to move, accepting an offer from a sympathetic resident to demonstrate on his private land and...
BASH: Hours later, Cindy Sheehan did decide to move. She actually accepted an offer from a sympathetic neighbor of President Bush, actually somebody who lives much closer to President Bush, only about a mile down from his ranch.
So close, Anderson, that our cameras got a glimpse of him bike riding today trying to look through that piece of land. COOPER: Dana, what is the mood down there? I mean, are there counter-protesters and protesters? Is it, you know, voluble? Are people shouting? I mean, it seems very quiet where you are right now.
BASH: Well, I'm actually not quite near what they call Camp Casey, or at least where Camp Casey is until tomorrow, when they do move. But it is quite different from the way it was over the weekend, Anderson.
Over the weekend, we saw hundreds of people here, both for and against what Cindy Sheehan was trying to do. Now it is a lot more quiet. You have sort of a steady stream of people coming there, but I would say, probably at any given time, you wouldn't see more than 25 to 30 people up where Camp Casey is.
COOPER: And no doubt a lot more media folks probably at times than protesters, at this point. Dana, appreciate it. Thanks.
Last night, I spoke with Cindy Sheehan. I asked her about a particular statement that's been attributed to her, a statement that many have criticized her for, in which she allegedly says the Iraq war was waged to benefit Israel.
Now, here's the exchange we had last night. Take a look.
COOPER: You were also quoted as saying, "My son joined the Army to protect America, not Israel. If you get America out of Iraq and Israel out of Palestine, and you'll stop the terrorism." How responsible do you believe Israel is for the amount of terrorism in the world?
SHEEHAN: I didn't say that.
COOPER: You didn't say that? OK.
SHEEHAN: I didn't say that my son died for Israel. I've never said that. I saw somebody wrote that, and it wasn't my words. Those aren't even words that I would say.
I do believe that the Palestinian issue is a hot issue that needs to be solved, and it needs to be more fair and equitable, but I never said my son died for Israel.
COOPER: OK, I'm glad I asked you that. Because, as you know, there's tons of stuff floating around on the Internet on sites of all political persuasions, so I'm glad we had the opportunity to clear that up.
SHEEHAN: And thank you, because those are not my words. It doesn't even sound like me saying that.
COOPER: Well, today, we've received numerous e-mails from viewers who saw that, and said, "Well, she lied. We read online that ABC News confirmed she sent them a letter saying exactly that."
So we contacted ABC News today about it. They said they had received a letter on behalf of Cindy back in March. They said took it seriously enough that they responded to it, but so far they cannot find the actual e-mail, they say. They say they're trying to find it, they're investigating.
Bottom line, ABC News right now does not seem to be confirming this is what Cindy Sheehan wrote to them, so stay tuned. We'll continue to follow.
We wanted to hear what you have to say about the demonstrations in Crawford. If your computer is working, send us your e-mails. Log on to CNN.com/360. We'll try to get some of responses later tonight.
You can also give you a call, toll-free, at 866-NY-AC-360, that's 866-692-2360, 866-692-2360. We'll listen to some of your comments. And tomorrow, when we come to you live from Crawford, Texas, we'll play them on the air.
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The main reason for the Iraq War was to defend and protect the State of Israel. Anyone who says otherwise is making up specious arguments.
Whether the State of Israel is the noblest of Nations in the world at the moment is another question entirely. The Holy Land will be the seat of Messianic Government, but I can assure you right now, Moshiach is definately not in the Holy Land right now. Moses warned the Jews of violating his commandments and what would happen to them, many, many times. The covenant is conditoinal.
Being a "Light unto the Nations" means to be something that inspires, uplifts and gives direction to people. If the light spellbinds, entraps and destroys you by folllowing it, then it must be avoided at all costs. Such a light is a dangerous luminous mirage that will only lead to damnation.
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Banned by Google? People's Daily Web Site Claims It's a Victim of Retaliation by Search Giant
Google (GOOG) has seen its fair share of troubles in China, from having its flagship search engine blocked to being scolded for peddling pornography. Last week, the Chinese Written Works Copyright Society accused the company of infringing the rights of Chinese authors through its Google Books project.
And the drama continues. Now, the Web site of the People's Daily is accusing Google of "malicious revenge" after Google searches for the People's Daily Online's books section turned up warnings that read: "This site may contain malicious software that could harm your computer." An article posted on the People's Daily books page, from the Beijing Times (in Chinese), quoted an official with the People's Daily site as saying he had received numerous calls from readers who said they were unable to access the site through Google. The unnamed official said there was no harmful software on the site, and that he believed the block was due to the site's reporting of the Google Books story. The site began featuring stories on the rights infringement issue on Oct. 21, and even created a special page on the subject. "Starting on the 21st [we] were maliciously blocked," the official said, according to the report.
Google denied the latest allegations. A public relations manager with Google China told the Global Times that the virus warning was generated automatically by stopbadware.org, a partnership between academic institutions, volunteers and technology companies such as Google aimed at halting the spread of bad software.
On Tuesday afternoon, searches for the People's Daily books channel on google.com and google.cn no longer turned up the warning.
Now, if only it were that easy to get Google's YouTube back online in China.
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jdreamer posted a topic in TestimoniesWhen I was young, I was brought to the church as my family are all Christians. So, its some sort like no other choices for me to choose. I was brought to a chinese church which I actually dont understand chinese as well. I cant communicate in chinese, or read and write chinese words. So, soon, going to the church has been like a family activity for me. Its some sort like a compulsary thing to do on Sunday. During the service, I will be playing in the church, not listening to what the Pastor or anyone says in the front. I play with papers, pens, even brought my own toys in. I talk to myself, sing and even jump and run here and there. (I did went for the children's service but just couldnt mix well with the other kids so I followed my parents to the adults') Soon, the feeling of going to the church fades off for me. I tried all kinds of reasons just to escape from the church. It's like running away from God's love, try to deny Him or something. Until I reached the age of 13, which is the first year Im in Secondary school. Well, I started to think a lot about church, like.. hate to go to the church as I kind of full of hatred. I hate lots of ppl even my relatives. They've been hurting my parents so badly (I'll skip the family conflicts). It made me felt like.. so frustrated that why didnt God came to protect us or something. So, eventually, I lost the interested to go to the church. My second bro graduated that year, with my eldest bro, but he was the only one who came back from NZ while my eldest bro stayed. Im not sure why, altho I respect him a lot and probably admire him a lot.. I still quarrel a lot with him (which siblings dont ?) Then, aint sure why.. the hatred growed. I started to swear at him (mild one) even curse him at times. We started to grow very unnatural, like.. not the same as the past anymore. There was this day that I said something bad about him, and he even slapped me for it. I then, shouted at him warning him that not to slap me anymore as I hate people slapping me. However, few days after that we're good again. The coming Sunday. I didnt went to the church, but my family did. That night, we were watching tv upstair in my parents' room. My mum, bro, sis and I were enjoying the entertaining program, Super Sunday or something.. I forgot. Its very funny and relishing. So, during the commercial break, my mum asked my sis to go down to the kitchen to get him a bottle of water because she's thirsty. My sis, then went down for her. Not long after that, like 1-2 minutes (I guess), she rushed back in with the bottle in her hand while crying. We were shocked and totally stunned by her. We asked her of what happened. She told us that.. the moment she walked into the kitchen, she saw an old man with a scary look, standing inside there looking at her. While looking at that old man, the kitchen has growed wider and bigger. My sis, then rushed to get the bottle filled, trying not to look at him while praying in her heart as she felt like .. she's getting lost. After hearing that, my mum even scolded my sis for lying but looking at her reaction, we knew that it was true. My mum told her that she should came back to us instead of going in alone. So, we decided to go down to the kitchen together. When we passed by the dining room. We smelt something like.. food left there for a long time. We saw the curry which my dad's friend sent us that evening was very smelly and we could even saw the bubbles on it.. as if its newly cooked or something. However, it still smell bad. We knew something is wrong, as.. it was very cold that day, rained during the day time so it shouldnt be the weather who caused that. Somemore, the curry was sent to us right after my dad's friend cooked it. We walked in the kitchen.. but there was nothing. So, we decided to go back to my parents' room to pray. We all grabbed our own bibles and read it together. But when Im reading the bible and praying, I suddenly started to lose control of my body. I felt numb on certain parts of my body, I trembled and I slowly lose my vision. My bro saw me and hug me tightly. We all knew that they're attacking me. I just cant feel my body and cant see anything, as if Im blinded (eyes covered by something, Im sure). Suddenly, I shouted "SLAP ME!".. it wasnt actually my intention to even say that, but it just happened. However, no one did.. and I shouted it again. My bro then, slapped me continuously.. but I couldnt even feel the pain. Then, they all started to pray for me. At that moment.. I slowly.. see a light in the dark. I saw the crown.. shining at me. And I felt the warmth in the room, as if lots of people are surrounding me. I gained my vision, and I saw the room fulled of people with their smiling faces. They looked very nice. However, it lasted just for a while. I went back to the darkness again but I could slightly see a little. My mum was very worried, she called the church and asked for the Pastors to come. So my situation remained until we heard the car of our Pastors. I couldnt move my body, and I was lying on my bed but then.. in my eyes, I could see them praying in the car before they get down from it. My bro and sis then went down to open the door, but I just suddenly shouted out loud again without any purpose. Its like Im very scared of something. Afraid of something. So, it must be them who're scared because of the arrival of the Pastors. I, just suddenly gained back my vision and the control of my body. I felt totally exhausted! As if, I've been doing some excersises or something. Im just too tired and very sleepy. I told my mum that I need to sleep as I have no more energy.. Until the Pastors walked in the room. I felt as if.. my dad came back from outstation. I felt very warm at heart and very peaceful in mind. He told us that everything is over, just trust the Lord and we'll be fine. They prayed for us and it was as if nothing happened just now, everything just gone. I was refreshed again. I could do anything that I want, gained back my energy. We walked down to the dining room and showed them the food, and they said something like "No doubt, it was Satan who attacked". And they explained on why I was targetted as I was the leak of this family. I didnt go to the service, and lost the faith for God and I was the weakest one in the family thats why he chose me. After that, everything turned out to be okie. I went back to the church and even joined the church choir (until now). Im happy that I was brought back. I am as if a lost sheep in the past, but now.. Im back to God's arms. What God has done for us is amazing and we couldnt explain it at all, all we could say is.. He loves us. Amen!


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- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business center
- Conference space
- Free WiFi
- Luggage storage
- Laundry facilities
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-in
- Number of floors - 7
- Multilingual staff
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Conference space size (meters) - 400
- Conference space size (feet) - 4306
- Sauna
- Outdoor pool
- Outdoor seasonal pool
- Television in common areas
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Year Built 2005
- Conference center
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Room Amenities
NH Alicante offers 100 air-conditioned accommodations with minibars and safes. A pillow menu is available. This Alicante hotel provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Bathrooms include bathtubs or showers, bidets, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers. Cribs/infant beds (complimentary) are also available. Housekeeping is provided daily.
- Free WiFi
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Daily housekeeping
- Bathtub or shower
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- In-room safe
- Television
- Desk
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Private bathroom
- Bidet
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Pillow menu
Where to Eat
Nhube - This restaurant specializes in Spanish cuisine and serves lunch and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. A children's menu is available.
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 7 AM and 10:30 AM.
Start your morning with a buffet breakfast, available each day from 7 AM to 10:30 AM for a surcharge.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an outdoor pool, a sauna, and a fitness center.
Spa Services
- Massages
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! One child 12 years old or younger stays free when using existing bedding.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed (service animals welcome)
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- No onsite parking is available.
- The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
Only service animals are allowed
No rollaway/extra beds available
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: EUR 14,90 per person (approximately)
Hotel Name
- Hotel NH Alicante
- Nh Alicante Hotel Alicante
- Nh Alicante Province
We should mention
Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2500, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation. The seasonal pool will be open from June to September. One child 12 years old or younger stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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China Lodging (HTHT) blasted out of a flat base Monday in nearly four times average trade. It's already up double digits from a 27.10 entry.
Investors already in the stock should watch and see if the stock triggers IBD's key eight-week hold rule for handling fast movers.
TAL Education Group (XRS) came out of a flat base in more than twice its average trading Tuesday. That was an impressive showing, considering that Tuesday was a half session for the market.
SouFun Holdings (SFUN), which has been a solid performer since its July breakout, appeared to be on pace for a fourth straight weekly gain. Shares of the real estate information provider, however, reversed lower Thursday.
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