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The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C.[1] Originally a division of Washington University in St. Louis through founder Robert S. Brookings' service as Chancellor of Washington University, Brookings is one of America's oldest think tanks, and conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and global economy and development.[2][3] Their stated mission is to "provide innovative and practical recommendations that advance three broad goals: strengthen American democracy; foster the economic and social welfare, security and opportunity of all Americans; and secure a more open, safe, prosperous and cooperative international system."[1] Brookings states that its scholars "represent diverse points of view" and describes itself as non-partisan.[1][4]
Media descriptions of Brookings range from liberal to centrist;^ however, despite its left-of-center reputation, some U.S. pundits have criticized the work of Brookings' foreign policy scholars for being too supportive of Bush administration positions.[5][6]
The organization's president, Strobe Talbott was United States Deputy Secretary of State under President Clinton. Brookings employs five research vice presidents: Carlos Pascual (former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine and senior director on the National Security Council staff), Lael Brainard (a former White House Deputy National Economic Adviser and Chair of the Deputy Secretaries Committee on International Economics during the Clinton Administration), William Gale (a former senior staff economist for the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bush), Bruce Katz, and Pietro Nivola.
Brookings as an institution produces an Annual Report.[7] The Brookings Institution Press publishes books and journals from the institution's own research as well as authors outside the organization.[8] The books and journals they publish include Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy, Globalphobia: Confronting Fears about Open Trade, India: Emerging Power, Through Their Eyes, Taking the High Road, Masses in Flight and Stalemate to name a few. In addition, books, papers, articles, reports, policy briefs and opinion pieces are produced by Brookings research programs, centers, projects and, for the most part, by experts.[9][10]
Policy influenceEdit
Brookings claims to have contributed to the creation of the United Nations, the Marshall Plan, the Congressional Budget Office, as well as influencing policies of deregulation, broad-based tax reform, welfare reform, and foreign aid.[1]
Of the 200 most prominent think tanks in the U.S., the Brookings Institution's research is the most widely cited by the media,[11][12] and the third most-cited of all public policy institutes by Members of Congress, behind only the Heritage Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union.[13] In a 1997 survey of congressional staff and journalists, Brookings ranked as the second-most influential and first in credibility among 27 think tanks.[14] More over, "Brookings and its researchers are not so concerned, in their work, in affecting the ideological direction of the nation" and rather tend "to be staffed by researchers with strong academic credentials."[14] Along with the more conservative American Enterprise Institute and Heritage Foundation, Brookings is generally considered one of the three most influential policy institutes in the U.S.[15]
Political stanceEdit
As a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, Brookings describes itself as independent and non-partisan.[4][16] Media descriptions of Brookings range from liberal to centrist. The New York Times has referred to the organization as liberal, liberal-centrist, and centrist.[17][18][19][20][21][22] The Washington Post sometimes describes Brookings as liberal.[23][24][25] The Los Angeles Times describes Brookings as liberal-leaning and centrist.[26][27][28] In 1977, Time Magazine described them as the "nation's pre-eminent liberal think tank."[29] The organization is described as centrist by the progressive media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.[12][30][31][32]
Some liberals argue that despite its left-of-center reputation, Brookings foreign policy scholars have been overly supportive of Bush administration policies abroad.[5][6] The Atlantic's Matthew Yglesias, for example, has pointed out that Brookings' Michael O'Hanlon frequently agrees with—and appears on stage with—scholars from conservative organizations such as the American Enterprise Institute, The Weekly Standard, and the Project for a New American Century.[5] Similarly, Brookings fellow and research director Benjamin Wittes is a member of the conservative Hoover Institution's Task Force on National Security and Law.[33] The Brookings Board of Trustees include prominent Republicans such as Kenneth Duberstein, a former chief of staff to Ronald Reagan, and prominent Democrats, such as former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers.[34] Its scholars include former government officials hailing from both Democratic and Republican administrations, as well as many who have not served in government and do not advertise a party affiliation.
Brookings was founded in 1916 as the Institute for Government Research (IGR), which they claim was "the first private organization devoted to analyzing public policy issues at the national level."[35]
The Institution's founder, philanthropist Robert S. Brookings (1850–1932), originally financed the formation of three organizations: the Institute for Government Research, the Institute of Economics, and the Robert Brookings Graduate School, which was formally a part of Washington University in St. Louis.[3] The three were merged into the Brookings Institution in 1927.[3]
During the Great Depression economists at Brookings embarked on a large scale study commissioned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to understand the underlying causes of the depression. Brookings' first president Harold Moulton and other Brookings' scholars later led an effort to oppose President Roosevelt's New Deal policies because they thought such measures were impeding economic recovery.[36] With the outbreak of World War II, Brookings researchers turned their attention to aiding the administration with a series of studies on mobilization.
In 1948, Brookings was asked to submit a plan for the administration of the European Recovery Program. The resulting organization scheme assured that the Marshall Plan was run carefully and on a businesslike basis.[37]
In 1952, Robert Calkins succeeded Moulton as president of the Brookings Institution. He secured grants from the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations that put the Institution on a strong financial basis. He reorganized the Institution around the Economic Studies, Government Studies, and Foreign Policy Progams. In 1957, the Institution moved from Jackson Avenue to a new research center near Dupont Circle on Massachusetts Avenue.[38]
Kermit Gordon assumed the presidency of Brookings in 1967. He began a series of studies of program choices for the federal budget in 1969 entitled "Setting National Priorities". He also expanded the Foreign Policy Studies Program to include research in national security and defense. After the election of Richard Nixon to the presidency in 1968, the relationship between the Brookings Institution and the White House deteriorated. Yet throughout the 1970s, Brookings was offered more federal research contracts than it could handle.[39]
By the 1980s, the Institution faced an increasingly competitive and ideologically charged intellectual environment. The need to reduce the federal budget deficit became a major research theme as well as investigating problems with national security and government inefficiency. Bruce MacLaury, fourth president of Brookings, also established the Center for Public Policy Education to develop workshop conferences and public forums to broaden the audience for research programs.[40]
In 1995, Michael Armacost became the fifth president of the Brookings Institution and led an effort to refocus the Institution's mission heading into the 21st Century. Under Armacost's direction, Brookings created several interdisciplinary research centers such as the Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, which has brought attention to the plight of cities, and the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, which brings together specialists from different Asian countries to examine regional problems.
Strobe Talbott became president of Brookings in 2002. Shortly thereafter, Brookings launched the Saban Center for Middle East Policy and the John L. Thornton China Center. In July 2007, the Institution announced the creation of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform to be directed by senior fellow Mark McClellan.
Named to Nixon's "Enemies List"Edit
During the administration of President Richard M. Nixon, Brookings was named to Nixon's famous enemies list, due to its criticism of Nixon's domestic and foreign policies. Nixon-administration advisor Charles Colson even proposed firebombing the Brookings Institution and stealing politically damaging documents while firefighters put the fire out.[41][42][43][44]
Brookings focuses on five main areas of research: Economic Studies, Foreign Policy, Governance, Global Economy and Development, and Metropolitan Policy.
The five main research programs are:
- Economic Studies Program
- Governance Studies Program
- Foreign Policy Studies Program
- Global Economy and Development Program
- Metropolitan Policy Program
Policy centers include the following:
- Brown Center on Education Policy
- Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies
- Center for Children and Families
- Center on Social and Economic Dynamics
- Center on the United States and Europe
- Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform
- John L. Thornton China Center
- Saban Center for Middle East Policy
- Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center
- The Wolfensohn Center
Operational centers include the following:
Non-research programs include the following:
In September 2006, Brookings announced the founding of The John L. Thornton China Center, a major new center focused on the study of Chinese politics and policy, with support from former President and COO of Goldman Sachs John L. Thornton. In November 2006, Brookings announced the opening of its first-ever overseas center, the Brookings-Tsinghua Center at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. In July 2007, the Institution announced the creation of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform to be directed by senior fellow Mark McClellan and the opening of the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar.
Brookings currently has over 140 resident and nonresident scholars.[45] Some of Brookings' notable resident scholars:
- Ivo H. Daalder, Foreign Policy Studies
- Kenneth Dam, Economic Studies
- E.J. Dionne, Governance Studies
- Gregg Easterbrook, Economic Studies, Governance Studies
- Joshua M. Epstein, Economic Studies, Center on Social and Economic Dynamics
- William G. Gale, Economic Studies, Tax Policy Center
- Philip H. Gordon, Foreign Policy Studies
- Ron Haskins, Economic Studies
- Stephen Hess, Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University
- Bruce Katz, Metropolitan policy
- Mark McClellan, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform
- Michael O'Hanlon, expert on terrorism and foreign affairs
- Carlos Pascual, Foreign Policy Studies
- Alice Rivlin, United States budget process
- Susan E. Rice, Foreign Policy Studies
- Peter Rodman, Foreign Policy Studies
- David B. Sandalow, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, former Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.
Previous scholars include Under-Secretary-General of the Department of Political Affairs at the UN Ibrahim Gambari. Stéphane Dion, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition also served as a senior research fellow.
At the end of 2004 the Brookings Institution had assets of $258 million. It spent $39.7 million in that year. According to its annual report,[46] the largest contributors in that year included the Pew Charitable Trusts, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Carnegie Corporation; the governments of the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Others can be found listed at mediatransparency.org.
See alsoEdit
- List of Brookings Institution scholars
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Heritage Foundation
- Hoover Institution
- Tax Foundation
- Urban Institute
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 About Brookings
- ↑ Brookings Institution Encyclopedia Britannica.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 [1]
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Brookings Research
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Very Serious Indeed by Matthew Yglesias, ''Atlantic Monthly,'' August 24, 2007
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 The Truth Behind the Pollack-O'Hanlon Trip to Iraq by Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com.
- ↑ Brookings Annual Report
- ↑ Brookings Institution Press
- ↑ Brookings Press Blog
- ↑ Brookings Institution Press: Books
- ↑ "A Measure of Media Bias" by Tim Groseclose and Jeff Milyo, December 2004.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Study Finds First Drop in Think Tank Cites by Michael Dolny, ''FAIR'', May/June 2006
- ↑ "A Measure of Media Bias" by Tim Groseclose and Jeff Milyo, September 2003.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 War of Ideas: Why Mainstream and Liberal Foundations and the Think Tanks they Support are Losing in the War of Ideas in American Politics by Andrew Rich, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2006
- ↑ Happy Birthday, Heritage Foundation by Jacob Weisberg, Slate, January 9, 1998
- ↑ Obama repudiates ex-pastor by Joseph P. Williams, ''Boston Globe'', April 30, 2008
- ↑ Next Generation of Conservatives (By the Dormful) by Jason DeParle, ''New York Times'', June 14, 2005
- ↑ Silicon Valley's New Think Tank Stakes Out 'Radical Center' by Neil A. Lewis, ''New York Times'', May 15, 1999
- ↑ ECONOMIC VIEW; Friedman And Keynes, Trading Pedestals by Tom Redburn, ''New York Times'', September 24, 2000
- ↑ Marshall A. Robinson, 83, Former Foundation Chief, Dies by Wolfgang Saxon, ''New York Times'', January 13, 2006
- ↑ Air Force's Newest Jet Fighter Is in Fierce Fight, in Capitol by Elizabeth Becker, ''New York Times'', September 8, 1999
- ↑ The Way to Save ''New York Times'', February 20, 2006
- ↑ Stumping for Attention To Deficit Disorder by Lori Montgomery, ''The Washington Post'', June 21, 2007
- ↑ The Unbelievable Karl Rove by Dan Froomkin, ''Washingtonpost.com'', November 13, 2006
- ↑ 2003 Budget Completes Big Jump in Spending by Glenn Kessler, ''The Washington Post'', April 15, 2002
- ↑ Parties Suggest They'd Yield for Stimulus Pact by Maura Reynolds and Richard Simon, ''Los Angeles Times'', January 17, 2008
- ↑ U.S. Won't Say Who Killed Militant by Josh Meyer, ''Los Angeles Times'', February 2, 2008
- ↑ A green light to genocide by Goldberg, ''Los Angeles Times'', July 24, 2007
- ↑ The Other Think Tank Time Magazine, September 19, 1977
- ↑ Sam Husseini, "Brookings: The Establishment's Think Tank," Extra!, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (November/December 1998).
- ↑ Lawrence Soley, "Brookings: Stand-In for the Left," Extra!, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (1991).
- ↑ Michael Dolny, "Think Tanks in a Time of Crisis," Extra!, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (March/April 2002).
- ↑ http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=377c198a-033f-46e5-b233-fb55af4174b8
- ↑ About Brookings Trustees
- ↑ Brookings Institution History Brookings Institution.
- ↑ Brookings History: The Depression.
- ↑ Brookings History: War and Readjustment.
- ↑ Brookings History: Academic Prestige.
- ↑ Brookings History: National Doubts and Confusion.
- ↑ Brookings History: Setting New Agendas.
- ↑ Democracy Now! interview with John Dean and Daniel Ellsberg
- ↑ 'Insanity' in Nixon's White House Los Angeles Times, February 18, 2003.
- ↑ LA Times Archives - Insanity' in Nixon's White House Presidential scholars hear about 1971 plan to firebomb a think tank, from John Dean.
- ↑ Dean, John. Blind Ambition, 1976, ISBN 0-671-81248-3. p 35–39.
- ↑ List of Brookings Experts
- ↑ Brooking's Annual Report
External links Edit
- Brookings Institution Official Web Site.
- Brookings Institution Press
- Opportunity 08
- Blueprint for American Prosperity
- Brookings' Tax Policy Center
- "Brookings: The Establishment's Think Tank", Extra!, FAIR, November/December 1998
- "The Brookings Institution: a Think Tank of Good Feelings", Voltaire Network, June 30, 2004 (Critic of Brookings).
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OPEC was expected to trigger a 6 percent cut in its official crude oil output after Russia, relenting to intense pressure, agreed to reduce its production by 150,000 barrels a day to help lift sagging oil prices.
Russia's decision yesterday ended a showdown with OPEC that threatened to unleash a potentially devastating price war for crude. One energy analyst forecast that the overall decrease in oil output would nudge gasoline prices higher but said he expected the rise would be modest, the Associated Press reported.
OPEC was preparing to issue a statement announcing it would proceed with cuts of 1.5 million barrels a day in its own production, said an OPEC official, speaking on condition of anonymity from the group's headquarters in Vienna, Austria.
After the decision in Russia, attention shifted to Norway, the world's third-largest exporter of oil behind Saudi Arabia and Russia. OPEC has asked Norway for similar cuts. A commitment from Norway, together with the pledge from Russia, would come very close to satisfying OPEC's demand that oil-producing countries outside the group cooperate with its plan to reduce its own production by 1.5 million barrels a day, or 6 percent. OPEC supplies about a third of the world's oil.
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By 2154, people have depleted Earth's herbal assets, leading to a excessive energy crisis. The resources development management (RDA for brief) mines for a precious mineral – unobtanium – on Pandora, a densely forested habitable moon orbiting the gas large Polyphemus inside the Alpha Centauri megastar system. Pandora, whose surroundings is toxic to people, is inhabited with the aid of the Na'vi, 10-foot tall (3.Zero m), blue-skinned, sapient humanoids, who stay in harmony with nature and worship a mom goddess referred to as Eywa.
To discover Pandora's biosphere, scientists use Na'vi-human hybrids called "avatars", operated through genetically matched human beings; Jake Sully, a paraplegic former Marine, replaces his deceased equal dual brother as an operator of one. Dr. Grace Augustine, head of the Avatar software, considers Sully an inadequate substitute but accepts his project as a bodyguard. Even as protecting the avatars of Grace and fellow scientist Dr. Norm Spellman as they collect organic facts, Jake's avatar is attacked by way of a thanator and flees into the wooded area, where he's rescued with the aid of Neytiri, a female Na'vi. Witnessing an auspicious sign, she takes him to her clan, whereupon Neytiri's mom Mo'at, the extended family's religious chief, orders her daughter to provoke Jake into their society.
Colonel Miles Quaritch, head of RDA's personal security force, guarantees Jake that the employer will restore his legs if he gathers records approximately the Na'vi and the extended family's accumulating location, a giant tree known as Hometree, on grounds that it stands above the richest deposit of unobtanium in the location. When Grace learns of this, she transfers herself, Jake, and Norm to an outpost.
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The 17-year-old rookie was fastest of his qualifying group and as nobody in the other group managed to beat his time.
In second qualifying of the FIA Formula 3 European Championship at the 2.76 kilometres long street circuit in Pau, Esteban Ocon (Prema Powerteam) continued where he had stopped after the first race: in first place. The 17-year-old rookie was fastest of his qualifying group and as nobody in the other group managed to beat his time, the Lotus F1 junior driver will be starting from pole position for the second race.
Felix Rosenqvist (kfzteile24 Mücke Motorsport), the best-placed driver of the second group, will be starting from second place, followed by Max Verstappen (Van Amersfoort Racing) and Tom Blomqvist (Jagonya Ayam with Carlin). Ocon will also be starting from pole position in the second race on Sunday (race three of the weekend), because he also drove the best second-fastest lap time. Rosenqvist, Verstappen and Blomqvist will be second, third and fourth on the grid for the ninth FIA Formula 3 European Championship season round.
Group B (even starting numbers) - Starting grid race 2
Group B qualifying turned out into a duel of the two rookie drivers Esteban Ocon (1:10.192 minutes) and Max Verstappen (1:10.249 minutes). Initially, Verstappen topped the time sheets, until Ocon had completed his first flying lap with eleven minutes remaining. The 16-year-old Dutchman countered successfully and ranked ahead of the Frenchman again. A little bit over eight minutes before the end, Ocon managed to improve his time again as well and thus secured first place on the grid. Jakes Dennis (Carlin, 1:10.647 minutes) ended up third, followed by Dennis van de Laar (Prema Powerteam, 1:10.841 minutes), John Bryant-Meisner (Fortec Motorsports, 1:11.141 minutes) and Edward Jones (Carlin, 1:11.242 minutes) in fourth to sixth place. Four minutes before the end, Tatiana Calderón (Jo Zeller Racing, 1:11.407 minutes) hit the Armco barriers and caused a brief interruption. The only lady racer in the field ended up ninth in qualifying.
Starting grid race 3
Esteban Ocon (1:10.265 minutes) also came out on top in the ranking of the second-fastest lap times. Max Verstappen (1:10.315 minutes), Jake Dennis (1:10.828), Dennis van de Laar (1:10.930 minutes) and John Bryant-Meisner (1:11.251 minutes) also claimed identical positions as in the ranking of the fastest laps. Gustavo Menezes (Van Amersfoort Racing) was classified seventh.
Group A (odd starting numbers) - Starting grid race 2
Just before the halfway mark, Felix Rosenqvist (1:10.197 minutes) moved up into first place in his group and was only toppled briefly by Lucas Auer (kfzteile24 Mücke Motorsport, 1:10.613 minutes) in the remaining minutes, but countered successfully. While Rosenqvist remained on top, Auer dropped back more and more and had to make do with sixth place in his group. Tom Blomqvist (1:10.547 minutes) claimed second place from Antonio Giovinazzi (Jagonya Ayam with Carlin, 1:10.561 minutes), Mitch Gilbert (Fortec Motorsports, 1:10.579 minutes) and Jordan King (Carlin, 1:10.599 minutes). This session was interrupted, too, after Richard Goddard (ThreeBond with T-Sport, 1:10.826 minutes) couldn't avoid crashing into the tyre stacks with four minutes remaining. Eventually, he was classified eleventh in his group.
Starting grid race 3
Swede Felix Rosenqvist (1:10.300 minutes) was also unbeatable in the ranking of the second-fastest laps in his group. Tom Blomqvist (1:10.603 minutes) was classified second from Mitch Gilbert (1:10.614 minutes), who was only 0.011 seconds slower than the Brit. Lucas Auer (1:10.639 minutes), Antonio Giovinazzi (1:10.691 minutes) and Jordan King (1:10.722 minutes) rounded out the first six positions.
Esteban Ocon (Prema Powerteam): "Once again, my car was great. I did two good laps that were closer to the limit than in first qualifying. I knew that this was what I had to do, because the track was better for the second group. Eventually, it was really close with Felix Rosenqvist, but it was enough. So far, the weekend has been perfect for me, but there are still two races to go and I have to do my utmost."


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* Feeder cattle closes lower * Mostly lower hog contracts By Theopolis Waters CHICAGO, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures sagged on Monday in advance of potentially lower cash prices this week as packers attempt to recover lost profits, said traders. February live cattle closed down 0.475 cent per pound at 115.925 cents, and April was 0.625 cent lower at 112.525 cents. Monday's average beef packer margins were at a negative $81.80 per head, down from negative $75.10 on Friday and a negative $59.75 a week ago, as calculated by HedgersEdge.com. Last week, slaughter-ready, or cash, cattle in the U.S. Plains brought $119 to $120.50, steady to $1.50 higher than in the previous week. Investors await Wednesday's Fed Cattle Exchange sale of about 4,800 animals that last week, on average, brought $117.50. Some processors have already scaled back production to rein in cash spending, said analysts and traders. Reduced slaughter rates typically help improve packer margins and stimulate beef buying interest from grocers to avoid possible inventory shortages of meat. The morning's choice wholesale beef price was up 51 cents per cwt to $188.14 from Friday. Select cuts climbed $1.39 to $187.04, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said. Fund selling and slumping live cattle futures weighed on CME feeder cattle contracts. March feeders closed down 0.250 cent per pound to 121.825 cents. MOSTLY LOWER HOG FUTURES CME February lean hogs, which will expire on Thursday, tracked the exchange's hog index for Feb. 9 at 73.51 cents, said traders. They said other trading months were pressured from profit-taking, technical selling and softer cash hog prices. February hogs ended up 0.200 cent per pound to 74.750 cents. Most actively-traded April closed 1.375 cents lower at 69.700 cents, and May down 0.450 cent to 74.950 cents. Monday morning's cash hog price in Iowa/Minnesota averaged $71.54 per cwt in light volume, 64 cents lower than on Friday, the USDA said. "It sounds to me like most packer inventories are full. But I also heard some of them could still squeeze in a few pigs to round out the edges," a Midwest hog merchant said. Pork cutout values rose on Monday, mainly because of the rebound in pork belly prices that some believe might trend lower as more supplies come online in the months ahead. U.S. government data on Monday morning showed the average wholesale pork price up 58 cents per cwt to $85.67 from Friday, following $4.60 higher pork bellies. (Reporting by Theopolis Waters; Editing by Chris Reese)


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Location, Quit area , close proximity to every thing No facilities , and you need to go for the Carlton tower for the Gym and busniess center
Size of hotel and very convenientto tube etc.
staff and location in particular slow service in bar / restaurant area
The location of the hotel is quite good, with good access to public transport and Knightsbridge shopping areas. The room I got was a handicapped room with bigger than usual bathroom (I assume). However, the open shower didnt drain and the whole bathroom was flooded within 30 seconds of turning on the shower. The toilet flushed for 3 hours with repairmen coming in at 5 in the morning to fix it. No compensation was offered, which for a 5 star hotel is not adequate.
i liked the location, and its a samller hotel quick to get in and out i got a better rate on sunday night ..but all hotels have better sunday rates...i certainly wouldn't pay 4 or 5 hundred GBP to stay there....it simply is not worth it This is not a true 5 star hotel..more like a 4 it lacks the little extra's, i hate paying 20GBP for internet..that's a big turn off for me and probably why i won't stay again...small room but the rate reflected it...and i was alone but a little small for 2 people
great location, rooms are nicely designed and modern, staff is helpful limited breakfast, staff misinformed us about the services invcluded in our fee
Exceptional service and quality of the hotel. Very good location. Rates are quite high but it was 50% off through booking.com.
location and a balcony in town the rates were misleading as they didn't reflect the true cost
location, rooms discretionary service charge added to bill, a guest has to ask for it to be removed rather than being asked before its included,
Great staff , nice room after upgrade, although strange that the windows couldnt be openend... No 5 star, more 3+, all the facilities the state to have are in there yes 5 star sister hotel 1 block further down the street the Jumeirah carlton... hotel.. that might be 5 star, but there littke sister is not.. good room, but no facilities, and only after an upgrade ( excecutive) we had a real suite ( forget the junior...). but all in all a good hotel. nothing fancy though ( in the star and facilitie sector...)
The bathroom was far too small, couldn't turn at all!! Will not use this hotel again.
we had street view off harrods christmas parade it was brillant grand children loved it i would have liked to see a tea /coffee tray in room all hotels we have stayed at have this
The staff are excellent. Central London pricing.
The Doorman We waited too long for the room to be ready at check in. Very small rooms. Over priced for what you get. We stayed at the Ritz Hotel on our last visit for the same price and it was far superior.
I walk in the Hotel, and they have sold my room becouse I arrive at 10:00PM even it was GTD by credit card. The front-desk manager at first denied that there is any booking under my name, then he deleted my name from the computer screen when i was watching my name pop-up
Everything was delightful. The restaurant is one of London's best.
Greta Location, Very Quiet, Poorly and wrongly decorated, Very expencive for its worth,
hospitality of the staff. location
Looks nice You have to pay internet, small rooms,
The room we stayed in was looking rather tired, it was not as good as the rooms we had had on our last two visits
The hotel is very confortable, the staff is friendly; the breakfast is exellent; the rooms are beautiful no
I liked the small size (no convention) and the personal attention. The rooms are really small although I recognize that this comment could be made about many London hotels.
I liked the decor and the products in the room and how clean and nicely refurbished the hotel is. I thought the rooms are a bit small for the price
well I loved the place and the staff specially, they even went with me to show the room and they kept asking of I need anything to insure my comfort. it was great! the rooms are a bit small, and i see it a bit expensive but this is London after all.
Great location -a short walk to Harrods,V&A, and super little patisseries, restaurants and shops. Room had spacious bathroom with the lovely Penhaligon products.
Egerton House is the best hotel I have stayed in over a 25 year period of visiting London. The staf couldn't have been more pleasant and helpful and my room (a standard double, I believe) was lovely and comfortable.
Excellent personal service, great food - quite simply a great hotel. You would be very hard pushed to find anything even slightly wrong with this hotel !
the comfort, service and the little gadgets that felt like your in your own house. Too many furniture in the bedroom that made the room small
Service and Location. Double room rather small. Awarded a room that was not specified in confirmation at time of booking. Situation rectified though.
It is the perfect Hôtel to stay in London : the good place(area), the good price and the good services.
complimemtary tea insufficient hot water in bath and shower
The "Tea Time" and the "bar" included in the price The carpets were old and looking s if they are not very clean.
The hotel was clean, the staff was courteous, helpful and always willing to help. The room was clean but there were a few things that need to be attended to: Duvet was worn in several spots, the bathroom knob on the sink plug was missing. the water spigot in the shower was loose., the toilet paper holder was broken.
Good and central location!. Breakfast offer was super and .... Very nice with the complimentary tea in the afternoon. Nice ambiance and the staff were extremely friendly!
The room needed new wallpaper but otherwise it was really nice. The location of the hotel is excellent and the service staff is top notch. They also offered lots of extras, like free soda, creme tea, and alcoholic beverages. There was also a business center with a computer (internet provided) and fax machine. Would definately stay there again!
Very high quality environment in an almost surreal location... As an infrequent visitor to London the journey was fairly fraught - but then you turn into a high class side street and it is almost a different world! Excellent staff - clean rooms and ideal for switching off at the end of the day - and the complimentary reception bar is unusual too. The elevator! Not big enough to swing a cat let alone carry a travel bag and be taken to your room by a porter in... Anyone with claustrophobia should request a ground floor room! A minor negative overall though...
Location, clean, value for money, comfort Some of the reception staff unbearable!
Convenient location. Simple administration. Relaxed ambiance. Impressive bathroom Room 16. Bed springs seemed tired. Bed sloped to one side.Inadequate table and sitting space in the bedroom
Nu var det mest overnatning vi benyttede værelset til, da vi var ude hele dagen. Men personalet - specielt i receptionen hvor vi havde den største kontakt, var meget søde og imødekommende. God service. Nej
OK hotel, lille men rent værelse, ligger fint for Kensington park og shopping
It was in London Overbooked- we had prepaid and confirmed the previous evening. The hotel was overbooked, unable to find an alternative and wasted 4 hours of our 1 day in London. Kayak and the hotel were unhelpful and we are still waiting for a refund and compensation.
Don't like anything The glass of the window in the bathroom was broken, the door and the window in the room didn't lock. we left the hotel immediately and we didn't get any refund. We ordered the room for a week so this event was a lost of money and a huge dissapointment. We won't order from this website anymore.
At kunne spise morgenmad på terrassen - omend noget koldt i beg. af maj Lidt problematisk selv at skulle låse sig ind (på et hjøne af gaden) direkte i en elevator, uden kontakt med reception, da man skal kigge sig godt omkring ..... Og selvom man selv gør det, kan andre være mere uopmærksomme ... Fungerede dog fint for mig
I had a marvellous stay at Roof Garden Rooms. It is not like other hotels with a big lobby and reception but you really feel comfortable there and welcome too. There is a very nice atmosphere and the staff is more than friendly. Breakfast is outstanding - you can choose whatever you want from a large menu and they serve it either in your room or at the beautiful terras. Good beds. Mentioned during my stay that there was no desk in my single room although it said so in the description on booking.com. The manager immediately took care to update the description and I was served a glass of white wine on the house.
Hotellet er perfekt placeret i Knightsbridge på en stille sidegade. Der er kort til nærmeste tube station samt shoppingmuligheder.


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China's manufacturing activity expanded in April to its highest level for a year, according to data released Friday, in an indication that the nation's economy might be showing signs of recovery.
The official Purchasing Managers' Index, or PMI, for the manufacturing sector rose to 53.5 in April, up from 52.4 in March, the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said in a statement on its website.
A reading above 50 means the manufacturing sector is expanding, while a reading below 50 indicates an overall decline.
This was the highest level since April last year, when the official PMI reached 59.2, investment bank Goldman Sachs said in a note, quoting official data.
It sank to a record low of 38.8 in November due to the global financial crisis, but has improved continuously in the five months since, although it only moved above 50 in March.
This "sends a clear signal that real economic activity growth has been improving on a sequential basis from its trough last November," Goldman Sachs said.
Manufacturing accounts for more than 40 percent of the economy in China, which has been hit hard by evaporating demand for its products in key export markets such as the United States and Europe.
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If you're like me, you love seeing how other people design. Here's the process – and the docs – from the first stages of development on my latest indie endeavor: Project Aurora.
The Spark
The idea for Project Aurora came up accidentally, the result of experimental concepting for Project Babies. Armed with a rainbow glitter texture and some semi-transparent white hills, I was in the middle of making background sprites when I had one of those awesome perceptual shifts. It wasn't happy rainbow hills – it was the aurora borealis amongst the stars, casting bright spectrums on the snow. I doodled a polar bear on it, and it stuck.
At that point, it was an aesthetic – there were no mechanics, nothing beyond the look, but I loved it. The entire game was this picture:
The Core
One of the rare times I literally "dreamt this up". In the dream I was actually a seal, swimming in arctic water black as void. I couldn't go on land – but that restriction made the water feel safe, like home. I found specks of the Aurora Borealis that had fallen from the sky and called out to them to wake up, wake up! When they were glowing again, I shepherded them together, guiding them through the waters. I woke up with a vivid emotional imprint, and a head start on the mechanics.
At this point, the idea was still in "bright light" stage: it was vivid and pulsing with potential, but if I looked right at it with a critical eye I'd wind up blind and stumbling until I extinguished it. Instead I felt it out tangentially, mentally testing moments instead of mechanics, building the integrity of the experience up slowly in my head so that when it came to details I'd have a foundation to stand on instead of losing it to doubt and the slippery slope towards 'generic'.
I picked these out as the four main emotions (and in roughly this order) I wanted to evoke:
- Curiosity – what is this world? Drive to explore.
- Wonder – the stars are flickering, the water lapping.
- Solace – I am alone. The world is dying.
- Smallness – I am a tiny piece of a cosmic world.
They would form the core of the game.
The Feel
I had enough of a start that I wanted to get this thing made, and the awesome Kim Koskamp and I were overdue for a project together. I wrote up an official pitch doc, set the milestones, and we decided to make it happen.
The first time I'd mentioned the project to her, it was still in its rainbow bubble gum art aesthetic, so her initial character concepts reflect that feel:
At first we weren't even sure we wanted a polar bear.
Here we switched away from the bear cub aesthetic into something more of a 'spirit' character – older, wizened, and with inspiration taken from the smooth curves and minimalism of Inuit carvings.
We also snagged some help from wildlife artist Amber Hill to help make sure we had all the major anatomy points down.
And after several more iterations, settled on this:
The Mechanics
Oh, right, mechanics… We had a feel we liked, a character, an idea, and a set of emotions we wanted to evoke. We knew it had something to do with collecting pieces of the aurora, but how exactly? No idea.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
When our intended programmer went MIA, I connected with GDIAC – the Game Design Initiative @ Cornell – and sent around an updated pitch looking for AS3 or iOS devs. I was lucky enough to get an interested team of 4. ((You'll note that I dedicated an entire page to 'important aesthetics that will require dev work' — when the core is feeling and emotion, aesthetics play a huge role)).
That meant I actually needed to know how you play this game. I broke the mechanics into the rough sections I wanted:
- (Explore World)
- Find Shard
- Activate Shard
- Collect Shard
- (Restore Borealis)
Bouncing ideas with Kim, we knew we wanted something sound-related. Since the team was iOS, I started thinking touch screen, and sound/touch mechanics. I was drawn to the old wine glass trick – circling a damp finger on the rim to generate a tone. But that wasn't fun enough alone, so I added a melody-recall challenge mixed with connect-the-dots.
What does that even mean? Good question. I've found the best way to unfuzzy an idea is to get it on paper – which brings us to the storyboards.
The Storyboards
I like to start my storyboards with..er.. story. If I can convey the story of a game in a paragraph, then I should be able to illustrate/storyboard each sentence and get a basic walkthrough. Right? Right.
So here's the story:
The light has fallen out of the sky,
into the snowy desert of arctic dunes and deep blue dark of oceans.
((setting, conflict))
You are the eternal guardian,
the tireless wanderer,
the only living thing in the wasteland.
((character, mood))
Seek the scattered remnants of the broken borealis,
calling into the wind and waiting for echoes.
((purpose, mechanic1))
The shards have forgotten their power and purpose;
awaken them, resonate with them.
Song ignites the shards of shattered aspiration,
each unlocked by a melancholic melody.
… [spoiler]
[Image available in concept doc]
Which brings us to the final concept doc, where we stand now. Up next on the agenda is working out user stories, getting a 30 second "feel loop" of audio for the project, and creating a paper prototype.
My process is a little different every time – and sometimes wildly – but hopefully you got a kick out of your adventure in my brain space, and stay tuned for more.
Update! The next in this series is Making Design Decisions, followed by Prioritizing Development.


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As a storm forces them to temporarily stop their trip home from vacation, Aang and Katara discuss other storms they have faced.
So wrapped another few days away from it all for the married couple, ready to head back to the South Pole and spirits knew what else. They had just spent a week in a quiet island village on the west coast of the Earth Kingdom, enjoying all the time they could to themselves with there being a lull in the constant United Republic meetings. It was a quiet week, and both Aang and Katara were disappointed to see it end, but so was life for them.
The two flew on the Avatar's always-trustworthy companion, traveling over the open water. The flight would be long, but the couple felt Appa had the strength to complete a flight in one day. While aging a bit, the bison certainly had the stamina.
The problem, however, would not be that.
The wind began to increase, much to the notice of Katara, who was sitting in the saddle while Aang commandeered Appa. She looked forward to see that, while the sun was still out on that afternoon, dark clouds were closing in on it in a hurry, as if they were a shirshu closing in on its prey. She looked in concern and signaled her husband. "Aang, are you seeing what I see in the distance?"
Stiffening up a bit, he affirmed what Katara was seeing. "Yeah, definitely got something bad incoming. Looks like we might have to stop after all." The clouds were now beginning to block the sun. "Do you see anything that looks like an island or somewhere close to land?"
The waterbender surveyed the waters around them, holding the tip of her hand to her forehead to shield against the wind. She looked in the same southerly direction they were traveling in and could soon slightly see a building in the distance. "All right, let's just stay in this direction. I can see something out there; we can reach it in just minutes. Maybe turn slightly to the left."
"Sounds good to me," the Avatar said, and nudged Appa in that direction with the reins. "Fly toward the building, buddy." At that point, Aang couldn't help but think about the times he had wound up trapped in storms when he was younger, each representing significant turning points in his life. Nonetheless, his goal for now was just to beat the weather and get everyone safe.
Moments later, as flashes of lightning within the clouds became visible, the two were getting over the island; Katara recognized it quickly. "Say...I know this place." The building she had seen was actually an aging Fire Nation port - she could not believe her eyes. It was Whaletail Island, where she and Zuko had tracked the since-disbanded Southern Raiders to just before the Hundred Year War ended. Filling in Aang, she said, "This is where the Southern Raiders formerly established their base of operations. Zuko and I sneaked into a Fire Navy tower, found the last commander there, and he pointed us to where we could find Yon Rha." That was all she would say, not wanting to recall what she actually did there.
Aang nodded, going back to all the hurt and anger Katara felt during that time. "That was quite a journey you two had...and as for here, I guess everything was abandoned when Zuko eliminated the Southern Raiders from the navy. Probably not the only abandoned military base we would find. For now, let's just land and get ourselves set up.
It was a somewhat difficult landing as they contended with wind, but they were ultimately able to set themselves. It was late afternoon, and they knew they would probably just have to say there for the rest of the night since the storm would likely last for several hours. Fortunately, the two had prepared for this possibility, knowing they had plenty of pure sea travel.
Katara got pieces of a tent off the saddle, but Aang put a hand on her shoulder and shook his head. "That won't do the trick, Sweetie. Not with what we're about to go up against. We'll need a page from Toph's book here." He took a step back and stomped on the ground while shooting his arms upward. As a result, two slabs of rock shot up from the island grounds and left a wide opening, the Avatar knowing it would need to hold both them and Appa.
Continuing preparations, Aang quickly gathered some wood to hold a fire while Katara filled a pot with water. She took some soup mix off and set it next to where the fire would go. Once Aang had come back with the firewood, the two sliced some spare vegetables within the tent on a small earthen table. As this was happening, rain began to beat down. Aang decided to take care of this matter, leading Appa into the tent. Once he had his animal companion secure, he made sure all was ready. "Do you need anything else from out there, Katara?"
She quickly surveyed their tent, checking all the vegetables and her soup mix. She thought about her water skin, but that was atop Appa, so no need to worry about that. "I'm all right, Aang. Go ahead and close that tent up."
The monk nodded and shot up one last slab of rock, sealing the tent's entryway and thus keeping the two safe from the developing tempest outside. They could hear the rain fall against the rocks, wind driving it directly in, as if the storm was trying to drive little pick-axes into the tent and break in. He also lit the fire in the gathering of wood, giving them some light.
"Glad we got here when we did," Aang remarked, using a small blade of air to cut some celery into small pieces. "Quite a close call."
Even though a storm was raging outside, Katara couldn't help but chuckle about one thing. "Well, it's an extra night of vacation, if we can look at the bright side of this in any way. Too bad there's no brightness outside to go with it."
"Heh, well," Aang replied, "Anything to get an extra day away from the meetings. They just get on your nerves after a while, you know?"
"I can imagine," the waterbender remarked. "There's also, well..." she grew saddened a bit as she completed the cutting of a couple tomatoes.
It didn't take much for Aang to know what his wife was referring to as her voice trailed off. "I know...I mean, we write plenty of letters, but it's not quite the same as being right in front of you, being by your side like this. That's why I am especially glad for the meetings to slow..." He perked up a bit, however, thinking about the positives. "At least we got this time together, and who knows? Maybe we can move closer to the city as it gets constructed."
She smiled, though the thought of leaving her South Pole home wasn't all that comfortable. However, that was all just future speculation for now. It was better to just enjoy the present, at least to the extent one could enjoy a storm right outside a tent.
It wasn't too much longer before they both finished chopping the vegetables and the soup mix was added, getting their little meal going. They added the veggies and Katara stirred the mix with a spoon, waiting for its readiness. She walked over to Appa and pulled two dishes and spoons each off the saddle's little storage compartment.
"You know, I was thinking before," Aang began. "When I first saw the storm starting to develop, I couldn't help but think of our first real deep conversation during the storm early in our journey. Remember?"
Katara thought back to that night, remembering him running after that old fisherman's bitter words. Once she found him, it wasn't long before he was learning the story of his entire past. "I do. That was a really important moment for us, looking back on it."
"It was at that point that I really felt like I could share anything with you," the airbender explained. "You heard me out and gave me some important reassurance on that night, and you never used that against me."
Katara smiled warmly. "Oh, Aang, I would never use anything against you, Sweetie. You've been through a lot...we all have. There was so much with that war, so many stories, emotions...goes on and on. Seems we've been through many a storm, and not just these physical ones either...I'm glad I've had you by my side to weather them."
Aang nodded and smiled back. "Well, I can say just the same. I would have wanted no one else by my side in those trying times. Another time I can think of is back after the fall of Ba Sing Se...that was tough on all of us, wasn't it?"
The waterbender thought back to some of the immediate aftermath of that awful night. "Tough is an understatement...for days, we all just hoped you would awaken, that we could get away from the swarming Fire Nation...we really didn't know what to do exactly...and of course I've told you in the past about trying to heal you all throughout that time. You want to talk about a storm..."
"I wish I could have helped in some way," Aang remarked. "Losing Ba Sing Se was a difficult time for everyone. Being together then was vital...and I'm proud of you and everyone else for holding as such during that time."
"Thanks," Katara replied, but shook her head. "It wasn't all perfect though...I was really isolated from everyone else. I was cold at points to my dad, Sokka, Toph, everyone. I was so closed off, scared, hurt, wondering why I couldn't bring you back."
"I can only imagine," the Avatar said in a somewhat-saddened response, turning his head away. "But the fact is, we survived it...only for me to attempt something completely foolish, and in a storm like this one."
The Water Tribeswoman recalled back to when she found Aang missing that night. "Yeah, I won't sugarcoat that one, Aang. Not one of your best moves, especially in the physical state you were in. Sokka, Toph, and I were just beyond grateful we found you on Crescent Island afterward still safe and sound." She also thought about one more aspect. "Wasn't it Yue who saved you?"
"Yes," he answered. "Yue's spirit appeared before me and helped bend the waves so I could ride them to the island and get settled...well, at least to what extent you could describe it." He chuckled.
"I wouldn't want to be laying on rocks either," she said, also chuckling. Her tone though quickly dropped to one more serious. "Regardless, yes, we were so happy that morning when we got you back."
He smiled, a bit of a twinkle in his eyes as he remembered Katara running up and hugging him. "And I was glad to see you all. Coming for me in both real life just as you have in spirit time and time again, Katara."
She returned the grin before noticing their soup was about ready. After another bit of stirring, Katara bent some up and shot it into Appa's mouth before pouring two bowls for Aang and herself. The two began to eat it after Aang used his airbending to cool their bowls off somewhat.
"It has definitely not just been these physical storms we've gone through together, huh?" Katara asked, finishing the first little bit of her soup. "Think about all those things in our head we have had to sort out...for me, one thing that comes to mind is facing Yon Rha, and the lead-up to that. I was so bent on taking him down, so...boiling I guess when I learned he could be found...I said some really awful things and did others." She looked away for the slightest moment.
Aang put his bowl of soup down and reached out, placing a hand on her shoulder. "Don't dwell on the past; that's what those moments were, the past. You weathered that storm, and you didn't do that unspeakable action. You saved yourself, and in the end, you did apologize to Sokka and I."
"I couldn't have held back without your help," Katara replied. "As I got to that vile man, I just remembered what you had said about revenge being like a two-headed rat viper. That voice echoed in me all throughout that little journey." She looked up and gave him a loving smile. "Thank you for that."
"Ah, anytime...anything for you, Sweetie," Aang said back, once again returning the grin. "That was definitely an important storm to navigate through together, proving we could stay up even when our darker sides became exposed. I knew that wasn't you, and I hoped that in some way, I could prevent you from carrying out that act of vengeance."
"Your hopes were well-placed in the end," Katara said, rubbing his shoulder.
The two continued on their dinner, conversating about much of their past, both recent and further back, many things that had happened. It was a mostly pleasant back and forth, spending their time together, riding out the storm. A nice little moment for husband and wife, best friends as well, idly passing the time as rain continued to beat against the earthen tent. As they finished, the topic changed to more about mental storms.
"Is it just me, or have we also been arguing quite a bit lately?" The Avatar lamented. "We didn't do so during the vacation, but lately, when I have been home...we have fought. Don't take this as me not wanting to be around you...it just seems we've had a few rather unpleasant arguments."
Katara sighed; he was right. About a week before, a discussion over their future had erupted into several minutes of shouting, resulting in them not talking for the rest of the night, sleeping in separate rooms of their home. "I hate to admit it, but you are right. Seems this weather is not the only thing stormy these days...we never used to fight the way we have been the past few months. Do you think we're just having trouble adjusting to married life?"
"I don't see why that would be it," Aang answered. "We've basically lived together for the last eight years, whether it's been as friends, boyfriend and girlfriend, or now husband and wife. It's not like being married is anything different, at least as of now. We have no kids, we're still living at the Southern Water Tribe...I mean, nothing has really changed. Maybe it's just that things are getting to us..."
"It could be," the waterbender mused. "Between you dealing with those meetings, the delegates, the citizens...you've been under a lot of pressure to basically do everything. I'm probably not helping, am I?" She turned away again. "I ask for a lot of you to do around the house, while talking about family, moving..."
"It definitely is not you," the airbender tried to assure her. "But you could be right about why we fight. I will admit to being stressed out, and you said it yourself, you feel lonely, upset, probably abandoned...and I don't exactly believe I'm helping you out much in those departments."
Katara looked back up and tried her best to assure her husband. "Aang, don't beat yourself up for what's happening. You're only doing what you need to do. I can only imagine what all this mess must mean for you, and instead of starting fights, we should just be talking it out more...that's what we did in the past, why not now? What's wrong with us? We're supposed to ward off these storms, not create them. I don't want this to keep happening...lest we drift apart."
Was a storm developing in the middle of them and doing as such? Did they and others indeed detect as such? Aang could almost feel like the physical reality was mental, too. All that darkness trying to get into their light, working to end what a beautiful life they had made together. He knew neither he nor his wife wanted that...and neither would anyone else in their family. They just had to get back what made them so fit for each other in the first place.
"We just have to work to keep ourselves under control, Katara," he finally said. "We have to find other ways to vent our frustrations...lately, we've found each other to be convenient targets, it seems. We've let anger take over where our more rational sides should be. We've taken our problems out on the one we're always around. We've just been both under duress from one thing or another."
"And we don't have to make it that way," Katara responded. "We faced a lot of unpleasantries during the war, and we got through those. It's just a matter of getting back to what works for us. We have a big storm to weather now...the storm of separation, of stress, of contending with big changes in the world - being who we are, that's at our forefront. If we're going to have a family, we just have to deal."
Aang was still concerned. "But as I've said, we have dealt with it, so why not now? Why is there suddenly this coldness between us?"
"But perhaps it's not just the world," Katara continued. "We're thinking about that family too...and that would be a significant change in our relationship, a new set of challenges to contend with. All this in mind and it just adds up to..." she heard a crack of thunder. "...like what's going on outside right now, but in our minds."
The Avatar continued to shake his head and lament the negative developments in their relationship. He sighed and agreed. "You're right, Katara. We've got changes all around us, and things are moving quickly. We have trials coming from those changes, and we're thinking about a lot...maybe just too much at once. Maybe we need to just slow down and take things one day at a time...one meeting, one vacation, one whatever. Let's just slow things down and appreciate our lives, enjoy what we have."
The waterbender's look warmed. "I couldn't agree more with that. I want to be a mom, but we can't just force things along, otherwise, this is what we get. We can't rush time, it goes its own path and speed. We have each other, and that should be all that's important. Let's not lose that."
"No, let us never give this up," Aang replied, going over to her and taking her hands in his. "We've weathered plenty of storms, together...and we always will. We can get through the one between us and the one that's outside now. It's always been us, and it always will be. We just have to learn to talk it out instead of resorting to yelling. Nothing good comes of that."
"Yeah, just like before that time I went after Yon Rha..." she sighed sadly again, but knowing that Aang was still in front of her, quickly lifted her head and smiled back. "But yes. We've done it always and I know we will in the future. Let's continue to just be us...what made us who we are today."
"I won't argue with that," he said with a bit of a chuckle, before moving in and planting a light kiss on her lips. "I love you, Katara, and that's definitely something else that won't get an argument."
She laughed before smiling warmly again. "I love you too, Aang. Definitely not a point of argument for me, either."
And so the two settled, Katara resting her head on his shoulder as the storm raged on outside. But while things may have been stormy out there, the only that mattered was inside between them...
And no storm could penetrate their love, nor blow it away.
That was all they could ask for in those trying times.
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