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Would you like to live in a city with spectacular views of Mount Ranier and the Cascade and Olympic Mountains? What about living in the Green River Valley 18 miles south of Seattle and 18 miles north of Tacoma? If this sounds good to you, then you should rent an apartment in Kent, Washington. If the fabulous location doesn't sell you on a Kent apartment, maybe all the community events, art exhibits and outdoor recreation will.
One of the first things you should do after you move into your apartment in Kent is look up the annual events in the city and mark them on your calendar. You don't want to miss the Fourth of July Splash in Lake Meredian Park, which features a boat parade, live entertainment, pie eating contests, games and more. Also in the summer, you can browse a variety of art and crafts during the Arts at Cornucopia Days, watch outdoor movies in Town Square Plaza and listen to live music during the Summer Concert Series.
In the fall and winter, don't stay cooped up in your apartment when Kent hosts a Halloween Party, a Christmas 5K and 10K race and the Holiday Bazaar, among other events.
When you rent an apartment in Kent, you'll live near one of the best examples of great landscape architecture in the country, the Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks. This public park, with its combination of natural and man-made sculptures at the mouth of Mill Creek Canyon, is itself a true work of art. Step indoors for a while and learn about the history of your new hometown at the Kent Historical Museum. Then, experience a different kind of museum at the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum.
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Get an overview of this hotelHistoric Chicago hotel across from Grant Park
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With a stay at Congress Plaza Hotel, you'll be centrally located in Chicago, steps from Columbia College Chicago and Museum of Contemporary Photography.
This hotel is 0.2 mi (0.4 km) from Fine Arts Building and 0.3 mi (0.4 km) from Auditorium Building and Theatre.
Make yourself at home in one of the 870 air-conditioned guestrooms. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming provides entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature deep soaking bathtubs and complimentary toiletries. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks.
Take advantage of recreation opportunities such as a fitness center, or other amenities including complimentary wireless Internet access and concierge services. Additional amenities at this hotel include gift shops/newsstands, wedding services, and a banquet hall.
Grab a bite to eat at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants, or stay in and take advantage of the room service (during limited hours). Snacks are also available at the coffee shop/café. Need to unwind? Take a break with a tasty beverage at one of the 2 bars/lounges. Full breakfasts are available for a fee.
Featured amenities include complimentary wired Internet access, a business center, and express check-in. Planning an event in Chicago? This hotel has facilities measuring 50000 square feet (4645 square meters), including conference space. Self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
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Across the street from Grant Park, this downtown Chicago hotel was originally built in 1893 to accommodate visitors to the World's Columbian Exposition. The hotel offers 2 restaurants, a lounge, gift shop, and barber shop. 25 meeting rooms cover nearly 50,000 square feet (about 4,600 square meters) of function space, including a ballroom for groups of up to 2,000. The hotel's Gold Room, currently used for banquets and other formal events, has a vaulted ceiling, chandeliers, and gold-leaf trim. Wired and wireless Internet access is available throughout the property, free of charge.
- Express check-in
- Elevator/lift
- Number of bars/lounges - 2
- Fitness facilities
- 24-hour front desk
- Conference space
- Business center
- Porter/bellhop
- Year Built 1893
- Meeting rooms
- Coffee shop or café
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Free WiFi
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Free wired Internet
- Smoke-free property
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Conference space size (meters) - 4645
- Luggage storage
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Number of restaurants - 2
- Concierge services
- Conference space size (feet) - 50000
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Shopping on site
- Banquet hall
- Total number of rooms - 870
- Number of floors - 14
- Wedding services
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
- Multilingual staff
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Self parking (surcharge), Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Room service (limited hours)
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Phone
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Deep soaking bathtub
- Desk
- Cable TV service
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Television
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- Number of bathrooms -
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
Where to Eat
Gazebo Restaurant - Casual ambience, American cuisine. Open for breakfast and lunch.
Rafael Steak House - Serving Midwestern cuisine. Open late afternoon through late evening for dinner only.
Congress Lounge - Located just off the lobby. Cocktails, beer, wine, and light fare. Open daily.
Nearby Things to Do
A fitness center on the lower level of the Congress Plaza Hotel is open 24 hours a day.
Guests can run, walk, bicycle, or skate on a path that runs along Lake Michigan for 20 miles. It's accessed via Grant Park, across the street from the hotel. Bikes, in-line skates, and pedal-powered buggies can be rented at several beachfront locations. During the summer, Oak Street Beach, about two miles north, is a popular swimming spot when lifeguards are on duty. Canoeing, kayaking, and rowing equipment is available for rent at the Lincoln Park Boathouse, four miles north of the hotel. A public golf course is located six miles north.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Sailing nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
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! Children stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 20.00 per night.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit 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.
- Please note that cultural norms and guest policies may differ by country and by property. The policies listed are provided by the property.
- Deposit: USD 25.00 per night
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between USD 16 and USD 20 per person (approximately)
- Self parking fee: USD 44.00 per day (in/out privileges)
- Valet parking fee: USD 49.00 per day (in/out privileges)
- Early check-in fee: USD 49.00 (subject to availability)
- Late check-out fee: USD 59.00 (subject to availability)
- Refrigerator fee: USD 10.00 per night
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 20.00 per night
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- Congress Hotel
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My wonderful husband does, almost all of the time.
Not to mention he does all the grocery shopping and vacuums, too. What a gem!
It's not that I don't LIKE to cook and bake.
I actually really enjoy it.
The easy excuse is that my husband gets home from work much earlier than I do.
But the real reason he's charged with the daily meals...
I hate to rush through cooking meals. In fact, I'm have some OCD like tendencies when it comes to the kitchen.
The kitchen has to be spotlessly clean before I start on my project.
I have to get all my ingredients gathered.
Although I own a stand mixer, a hand mixer and a cuisinart, they never see any use by me.
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I only enjoy creating meals and goodies when I can take my time.
I'm also very picky about the pieces I use, from the good ol' wooden spoon to my baking dishes.
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"In the News," Liahona, Dec. 2012, 78
In the News
On Sunday, April 29, 2012, Elder Erich W. Kopischke, then-Europe Area President, organized the first stake in Cape Verde (also known as Cabo Verde) in the capital city of Praia, with more than 1,000 Saints in attendance.
Called and set apart to preside over the new Praia Cape Verde Stake was Rosiveltt Teixeira, president, with Adilson Monteiro as first counselor and José Pires as second counselor.
London Chapel Rededication Extends the Gospel to Many
The Church's historic Hyde Park Chapel in London, England, was remodeled and rededicated as a chapel for worship services and as a visitors' center just prior to the 2012 Olympics, on July 1, 2012.
Elder Erich W. Kopischke of the Seventy, then-President of the Europe Area, rededicated the building. "My hope is that literally hundreds of thousands of people over the years will come into the building to learn about the gospel of Jesus Christ," he said.
New Caledonia Celebrates Church Growth
On May 27, 2012, Elder James J. Hamula of the Seventy, Pacific Area President, organized the first stake in New Caledonia as 800 Church members looked on.
"Latter-day Saints and all of New Caledonia will be blessed as the gospel of Jesus Christ is taught and embraced by more and more people," said Elder Hamula.
The new stake, the Noumea New Caledonia Stake, includes 2,000 members and eight meetinghouses.
"Our most important mission will be to preach the gospel and all its principles to the people of New Caledonia, which will bring happiness for them, for their families, and in their work environments and communities," said Georgie Guidi, who was called to be the first president of the stake. Marc Mocellin and Thierry Gorodey were called as his counselors.
First LDS Meetinghouse in Ethiopia
Members in Ethiopia are already seeing blessings come from the country's first meetinghouse. Located on the highway between the cities of Addis Ababa and Adama, the building has three floors and includes an underground parking garage.
But more important than the technical aspects of the meetinghouse is how it serves as a symbol of faith to the branch members, who have been meeting in residential property not far from the new building.
Debre Zeit Branch president Efrem Aemero Mekonen said, "Every time I go by the new building I am reminded of our covenants. Like when Captain Moroni raised the title of liberty, I am strengthened."


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Kyle Ward EMERITUS (5)Seizing the throne of symphonic black metal...Altmer (5)...LAD (4.5)Good stuff....BlackEmperor (5)This release is one of the masterpieces of the first wave of Norwegian Black Metal as well...
psite45 (4.5)Emperor wasn't the first black metal band. They were the difinitive one....blacktheripper (5)Absolutely beautiful compositions with a variety of riff tempos and clever drum patterns t...
This album is incredible, I am the Black Wizards and Inno a Satana are incredible.
Nice Review.
I hope you know that the last two songs on the re-release are covers...
A Fine Day to die is originally written by Bathory
Gypsy is originally written by Mercyful Fate
Here's the album cover, by the way.
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I have Arcturus-Aspera Hiems Symfonia, and I'm going to get Welkins At The Dusk of Dawn. This one looks pretty good, is it better than Welkins at the dusk? Also can you sugest other albums alike? The more technical the better. Thanks
Album Rating: 3.5Nice review, this is a good album.
I like 'Beyond the great vast forest' and 'inno a satana' a lot.
I've edited in the album cover - feel free to move it around if you like.
Good review, too. Emperor are one of the many bands where I like what I've heard by them, but don't actually own anything by them.
Album Rating: 4.0Hey, thanks for the album cover. I looked around and searched for it for a while but came up empty. This one's nice and big.
(To Per Ardua Ad Astra) No, I actually didn't know they were covers. I don't know much about Mercyful Fate but I'm surprised I didn't catch the Bathory song.
(To extreme_191) I'm assuming you meant Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk. If I'm wrong, then I'm sorry, but it's 1 am and I just got home from work and I'm feeling pretty stupid. Both this and Anthems are extremely good - It's tough to say which is better, but I would say Anthems has a slight edge over this one.
Album Rating: 5.0Good review of an excellent album. 5/5 is spot on.
Album Rating: 5.0P.S, is the album over big enough?
[QUOTE=manuscriptreplica]P.S, is the album over big enough?[/QUOTE]
Album Rating: 4.0[QUOTE=manuscriptreplica]P.S, is the album over big enough?[/QUOTE]
Soon, I shall find an album cover that defies the universe. One that will only be entirely visable from the depths of space. We shall create albums with covers so big that soon we will destroy ourselves!
Album Rating: 4.0(To Per Ardua Ad Astra) I don't suppose you had planned to review IX Equilibrium did you? If not I'll be happy to take it off your hands.
[QUOTE=Death to Pop Punk](To Per Ardua Ad Astra) I don't suppose you had planned to review IX Equilibrium did you? If not I'll be happy to take it off your hands.[/QUOTE]
Go right ahead, i would if i had the time but now that school has started i doubt i will have the time.
Album Rating: 4.0Where are you from exactly? I know the feeling though - after I started school I went from one review a day to one a month.
Yeah, I just wanted everyone to know I have Equilibrium so they think I'm so awesome. :thumb: (God I'm so desperately lonely...)
This is going to be one of my next purchases if I can find the cd, but I'm quite sure Emperor is one of the more accessable black metal bands, yes?
and I adore the cover art.
Album Rating: 4.0Yes, I just saw a bunch of Emperor CDs in an electronics store around my home. They're not exactly mainstream but easier to find then other black metal bands.
Yeah, I've seen Emperor cd's in stores around my home, I just didn't have any knowledge of the band, so I can't remember if this album was there or not.
Album Rating: 4.0It should be. All Emperor albums are equally popular. I actually managed to get this one used in excellent condition for $6. I was a very happy guy that day. Not to mention I've seen Anthems and Equilibrium new at a Media Play by my home.
Album Rating: 5.0I've never seen a real Emperor CD in my life
Album Rating: 4.0[QUOTE=manuscriptreplica]I've never seen a real Emperor CD in my life [/QUOTE]
:angry: :amaze: :evil: :mad: :upset: indeed. You should get some ASAP.
Man, I really need to stop posting in my own reviews.
Album Rating: 5.0Posting in your own reviews is great, especially if you bump an old one :p
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About the Author: Robert O. Blake serves as Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs.
When I first scheduled my July 22 trip to Maldives, I thought that I would concentrate on our expanding relationship with this progressive island nation. Since the 2008 election of President Mohammad Nasheed, we have cooperated on climate change activities, increased engagement on maritime security, and enhanced our diplomatic coordination.
By the time I arrived in the capital of Male, the political situation had deteriorated to a constitutional crisis. While President Nasheed had put in "protective custody" a leader of the opposition (an ironic move considering that Amnesty International had once designated President Nasheed as a prisoner of conscience after he challenged the former authoritarian regime), the opposition had obstructed any legislative movement in the Parliament. As a result, my visit, the first that I had made as Assistant Secretary, shifted focus to whether the United States could help resolve the dispute.
I have some perspective. When I served as Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives, I helped assist Nasheed and his colleagues with the democratic transition, during which they overcame obstacles much more profound than the current impasse. During my friendly meeting with the President, I urged him to stay true to the democratic ideals for which he had fought in the lead up to the elections. As for the opposition, I pressed its leaders to act responsibly and work with the government. I don't know if my conversations had an impact, but I was pleased to see the government released the opposition leader the day after I departed.
The political crisis underscored the difficulties that any nascent democracy faces. When I had lunch with a group of young, energetic civil society leaders, they expressed concern about rising Islamic extremism. We have also placed Maldives on our Trafficking in Persons Tier 2 Watch List, but I was heartened to learn from the Human Rights Commission that it has prepared its own report about trafficking that contained recommendations for the government.
Despite these bumps, Maldives still stands as a successful, moderate Islamic democracy -- one that punches above its weight in the world. In May, the country received the highest number of votes to secure a seat on the Human Rights Council. Faced with a rising sea that threatens its lovely atolls, Maldives has emerged as a leader in shaping global climate change policy. The United States will continue to increase its engagement with Maldives, which I hope will help bolster its democratic institutions.
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It is sad that democracy cannot exist in the Islamic world. Lets hope there are enough supporters of democracy to change this.
Palgye in South Korea writes:
Countermeasures for global warming, the perfect gift for the best in the Maldives, I think.
Hisham in Sri Lanka writes:
Its an interesting comparison of the irony of "protective custody" and also the blog itself shows that its a painstaking task in evolving as a democracy, as I've learned that there is no single, perfect form of democracy unless it evolves for good.
On the reader comment above - its is SAD that ignorance of some people brings religion in to the perspective in saying democracy and Islam wont go together.
In that case, looking at what happened in Nepal, Whats happening in Myanmar and even Sri Lanka to an extent shows that its nothing to do with a particular faith but the people who are to be custadians of Democratic Institutions not living up to the expectations.


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Brussels, 24 June 2010
Rail services: Commission legal action against 13 Member States for failing to fully implement first railway package
The European Commission has today decided to refer 13 Member States to the EU's Court of Justice for failing to correctly implement various parts of the basic EU legislation on opening the EU's rail market to competition, known as the "first railway package" (Directives 91/440/EEC, as amended, and 2001/14/EC). Important issues remain to be solved for opening up the railway markets to competition in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain. Member States were required to implement these directives by 15 March 2003. Failure to implement these measures to open the rail market deprives rail operators of opportunities to offer services in other Member States and deprives rail customers of a greater choice of competitive rail services.
The EU rules
The main objective of the directives of the first railway package is to create a basis for market opening and competition in rail services. The provisions of the first railway package aim in particular at ensuring the independence of the infrastructure manager from railway undertakings, non-discriminatory track access charging and the setting up of a regulator to address obstacles to competition in access to rail infrastructure.
The problems
After detailed enquiries about implementation in every Member State, the Commission opened infringement proceedings in June 2008 against 24 Member States. Following modifications introduced in their domestic legislation by several Member States in order to comply with EU legislation on a number of issues, the Commission sent reasoned opinions to 21 Member States in October 2009 on the remaining infringements. After having analysed the replies of the Member States to the reasoned opinions, the Commission has decided to refer 13 Member States, which still do not implement EU rules properly, to the Court of Justice. Concerning the other Member States against which the Commission had sent reasoned opinions, clarifications are still ongoing with a view to determining whether a referral to the court is necessary.
The Member States referred to the court infringe the relevant EU legislation in different ways, in the Commission's opinion, most often by not sufficiently ensuring the independence of the rail infrastructure manager, through inadequate implementation of the provisions concerning rail access charging and/or due to a failure to set up an independent regulatory body.
Practical effect of incorrect implementation
Incorrect implementation of the first railway package directives results in obstacles to market access and a lack of transparency of access conditions. This prevents the establishment of a fully functioning single market for rail services in Europe. Unfair conditions of competition in access to infrastructure can arise from a situation where the infrastructure manager, responsible for setting access charges and allocating network capacity, is not sufficiently independent from entities running railway services themselves. The EU rules on track access charges have the purpose of encouraging optimal use of the rail infrastructure. Incorrect implementation may lead to access charges which are too high and therefore exclude potential operators who would have been able to bear charges set at the direct costs resulting from the operation of a particular service (the minimum charge required under EU legislation). It may also lead to unjustified discrimination between railways operating in different market segments.
Strong and independent railway regulators which have the power to take effective decisions on market access and charging issues are also essential for the establishment of fair and non-discriminatory market conditions.
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Hello folks, Damhnait McHugh's <dmchugh at oeb.harvard.edu> interesting paper on the above subject is readable online at: http://www.pnas.org/all.shtml (Do a search on vol 94 and p8006) Or a version for printing at: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/94/15/8006 This link is to a page offering the link to DOWNLOAD the Reprint (PDF) version of: PNAS McHugh 22 July 1997; 94 (15):8006-8009. (191K). And there is some info about printing PDF files. You need Adobe Acrobat reader (free from Adobe) to read & print this format, but it gives a very nice copy for filing. McHugh, D. 1997. Molecular evidence that echiurans and pogonophorans are derived annelids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 94: 8006-8009 ABSTRACT "The Annelida, which includes the polychaetes and the clitellates, has long held the taxonomic rank of phylum. The unsegmented, mud-dwelling echiuran spoon worms and the gutless, deep-sea pogonophoran tube worms (including vestimentiferans) share several embryological and morphological features with annelids, but each group has also been considered as a separate metazoan phylum based on the unique characters they display. Phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequences from the nuclear gene elongation factor-1a place echiurans and pogonophorans within the Annelida. This result, indicating the derived loss of segmentation in echiurans, has profound implications for our understanding of the evolution of metazoan body plans, and challenges the traditional view of the phylum-level diversity and evolutionary relationships of protostome worms." List members may find the 2nd to last paragraph of the paper particularly challenging. :-) -- Geoff Read <g.read at niwa.cri.nz> -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server at net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida at net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Research resource = URL:http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html


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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A fifth-grade student in western Michigan has been suspended and faces possible expulsion after bringing a look-alike gun to school.
MLive.com says police were called to Sherwood Park Global Studies school Friday morning after students saw the boy on the playground with the gun with an orange tip on the barrel.
Grand Rapids Schools spokesman John Helmholdt says district officials have repeatedly told students and parents about the school's "'zero tolerance" policy regarding weapons and look-alike weapons. He says "even though this was a toy, it is considered a weapon" in the school's student policy handbook.
The boy is suspended for 10 days as the district moves forward with expulsion procedures.
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Re: Anger management thread
thats why i buy all my stuff by myself.
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thats why i buy all my stuff by myself.
I aint got money, dude.
but I mostly save up stupid pocket change forever, I just bought an ipod with my own money, and it turns out.........ITS TOTALLY F**KED UP!!
What is wrong with it TW? mine has been playin fine....?!?!?!?
Well........I'll talk about it in my ipod thread. It messed up my computer!! Just go there.
......Carry on.......
ok, i will
I hate i-pods. I have never had one.
Go to the ipod thread for more conversation on this.
I hate i-pods. I have never had one.
I second that statement!
for you that hate the i-pods may i ask why? (i dont own one but i want to)
draco fett wrote:
I hate i-pods. I have never had one.
I second that statement!
They hate them because they don't have one and want one.....statements like these reveal much, but are unlogical since they haven't ever had one....
I do not hate them because I do not have one, I do not want one. I hate them because of all of the i-pod pop-ups. Also, it is illogical (not "unlogical") to call someone illogical without knowing their reason.
Daenna wrote:draco fett wrote:
I hate i-pods. I have never had one.
I second that statement!
They hate them because they don't have one and want one.....statements like these reveal much, but are unlogical since they haven't ever had one....
Nope, I hate them because people spend so much money in order to have the same thing their friends got for their birthday/x-mas, etc. I have an mp3 player, okay it doesn't have 3 GB of capacity or video displayer, or any other useless feature. Mine just has just 512 MB of storage space, a music player, sound recorder, equalizer and LED color selector (ok 8 colors aren't really useful ) but it cost me only 30 euros! Bought it a year ago from eBay (shipped from Hong Kong ) and I still use it these days for jogging...
If I want a pocket device for diverse multimedia purposes, it's gonna have to include the following:
- a Windows/linux operating system
- WiFi! or whatever wireless internet link that's available in the future
- at least 120 GB on disc
- camera/video recorder no less than 5MB of picture resolution
- a mini-keyboard
- built-in knife, scissors, screwdrivers, tooth pick
- resizable/foldable touch-sensitive screen with mirror and magnifier option switch (might have to wait a couple of years to have that actually invented!)
- satellite mapping
- [add anything sci-fi or star warsy ]
I'm sure this is going to cost a mad load of money and by the time it will get trendy I'll already have a "noname" one made in Thailand or something
I like your way of thinking Daenna. I'm gonna take my ipod bake and get the best MP3 player Best Buy has. *Sigh* but I still wont be able to use my Vader cover..........O well
I hate when you really, really, really badly want to play a game and you can't think of anything else you want to do right now and you're bored to death and just want to play it, but can't cause your stupid brother insists that the five minutes it would take to log off and resign on on his computer would disrupt his gameplay. If these people in his "party" are so important they'll wait for him to resign on and then regroup. I've beenw aiting for three hours now, and for that whole time I've been sitting here staring at the wall, almost literly.
lol is that what he's doing right now? lol ......well......stair away!
I was over exagerating on staring at the walls. Anyway, he did finally let me play.
Oh good! I know how frustrating that can be.
You know something else I hate? I hate it when I'm sitting down to watch TV alone, and my little sister opens the door and wants to watch with me, and I say,"No, you can't watch this, because it might scare you." The arguing goes on for about 10 minutes, and when I finally convince her to leave SHE DOESN'T SHUT THE DOOR BEHIND HER. Oooohh that gets on my nerves for some reason.
Although my huge family is annoying, I love them. I don't think I could live without all the noise and Southern cooking. Last weekend I went to the aquarium with my friend Mary Faith and my little sister was really upset about it. So I told her I'd get her something and she gave me a hug, the kind where the seven year hold nearly chokes you to death, and she gave me a gypsy ring that you get out of those 25 cent machines and I put it on my chain and I haven't taken it off.
My brothers went out for football (the american kind) at the same time I went out for rugby and we practice together with my brothers's friends. My dad and I play Halo 2 on occasoins but most of the time he's teaching me how to cook while my mom's at coledge. Last night, my sister had a really bad nightmare and she came down off her bunk and slept on mine without me knowing. And when my mom came to wake us up she nearly freaked cause my sister wasn't there on her bunk. I wake up to my mom's spazing fest to find that my little sis is right next to me sleeping on her side her face facing me and her hand is wrapped around me like I'm one of her stuffed bears.
But what I hate about having a large family is that people call my mom a slut cause she has five kids. Most of us are adopted. And when people assume we're dirt poor cause us kids wear baggy clothes. We aren't rich but we get by better than most families.
SHE DOESN'T SHUT THE DOOR BEHIND HER. Oooohh that gets on my nerves for some reason.
Same with my little brothers, whenever I'm playing games/watching movies on my computer. I have to yell at them or start doing something boring on my computer so they'l leave, then get up and close the door that they leave wide open, and just as I sit down again, they open it for some inane reason, and I have to do it all over again...grrr...
YES!! Exactly the same thing with me!!
When we're over at my grandparents house, here I am wanting to watch alone, and here she comes... So I switch over to the TV guide channel, or some infomercial until she's leaves.... I'm so mean.
You're a horrible person.
I can;t wait until I get a laptop, so I can just run away from them when I see them coming, and hide in a tree somewhere while I watch my movies.
Spyware, adware, pop-ups, spam emails, people that still say "your moma" which is old and redundant. Football, Soccer, Tennis, Ping Pong, pickle ball, baseball, volleyball,etc...the only sports I actually enjoy are nascar-which is an actual sport-, modifieds, outlaws, sprints, quarter midgets, anything with a motor. Half my wardrobe is shirts I got at a race track.
you know what just restently i found out that im going back to my home town. which is great but im not going to be staying with my mom im going to be with my other sister. which sucks so much and im going to summer school so im not going to hang out with my freiends at all un till like 2 weeks tell summer end. that makes me mad.
I hate doctors making you wait for no reason, or charging you ridiculous sums of money when they haven't actually done any work. The last time I went to the allergist, I told him which medicines I wanted to take, and he said OK, and then charged me for his "service."
I hate kids who say " I'm the biggest Star Wars fan in the world," and have never heard of the original trilogy.
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Free Trade Agreement Research Paper
Free Trade Agreements and Governance of the Global Trading System
- Robert Stern, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
- Andrew Brown, Independent
- Goldman School of Public Policy Working Paper: GSPP11-003 (February 2011)
This paper explores how far free trade agreements (FTAs) have strengthened or weakened global governance of the trading system. We open with an analysis of the altered political and economic context within which countries have come, in recent years, to assign a new importance to regional and bilateral trade agreements in their trade policies. We then consider each of the main provisions included in FTAs and comment on how these may separately affect the management of trade relations. We conclude with some observations of the broader trends affecting global governance that are associated with the spread of trade agreements as a whole.
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This article concerns the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that became effective in 1994. This is an agreement signed by the United States, Canada, and Mexico aimed at eliminating trade barriers among the three nations. Essentially, NAFTA is an extension of the Free Trade Agreement between Canada and the United States that was established in 1989. There are a number of other considerations beyond free trade under the scope of the NAFTA, including, but not limited to intellectual property, telecommunications, and environmental protection. This article will provide an overview of the history of NAFTA and its impact on trade and labor in North America. There will also be a discussion of the agreement's effect on certain industries in each signatory country as well as issues related to NAFTA.
Keywords Certificate of Origin; Common Tariff; Doha Round; Duty; Free Trade; Free Trade Agreement ("FTA"); General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT); Most favored nation; North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); Products; Rules of Origination; Tariff; Uruguay Round; World Trade Organization (WTO)
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History of NAFTA
In January of 1994, the United States, Canada, and Mexico entered into the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA or the Agreement), and in so doing created the largest free trade zone in the world. At that time, NAFTA was the most comprehensive free trade agreement implemented by friendly nations. Moreover, the Agreement marked the first time that a developing nation entered into such a trade relationship with developed nations (Hirsch, 1995).
NAFTA was essentially an expansion of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) entered into between the United States and Canada in 1989. Canada and the United States were already each other's largest trading partners and the FTA was aimed at eliminating tariffs between the two countries. Even though the U.S. and Canada had long established trading relations, there were numerous disputes over tariffs imposed on certain products. This was particularly the case with respect to trade of softwood lumber.
Softwood lumber is the largest product that Canada exports to the United States and is used extensively by U.S. homebuilders. Softwood lumber is produced from pine, spruce, firs, and other "softwood" trees. In addition to softwood lumber, Canada also supplies the United States with oil and natural gas while the United States exports significant amounts of beef as well as a broad array of agricultural products to Canada. So the FTA was aimed at eliminating barriers to trade between the two nations, and ultimately to make the agreement multilateral.
Prior to the enactment of NAFTA, goods traded between Canada and the United States received most favored nation treatment. This is the manner in which nations must treat each other's goods and services. Most favored nation status provides equal levels of "preferential" treatment to products manufactured in countries who are signatories to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), an agreement initially negotiated in 1947 among 23 countries including the United States, Canada, and those in Western Europe. Over the ensuing years, GATT was expanded to include many of the developing nations. The so-called Uruguay Round of negotiations during the 1980s resulted in the establishment of the World Trade Organization (the WTO) in 1995. The purpose of this organization is to oversee the further implementation of GATT and the agreements established by the Uruguay Round. Included in those agreements were the elimination of duty restrictions and a timetable to eliminate tariffs on certain products. These are important developments to consider as the expansion of world trade has affected trade among the U.S., Mexico, and Canada.
In addition to goods and services traded between the United States and Canada being granted most favored nation treatment, under the terms of the FTA, Canadian manufactured goods that were made from products imported from the United States and which were subsequently exported back to the U.S. were entitled to the return of duty that had been imposed on the imported products. A duty is essentially a tax on an imported good or service, and in some ways is similar to a tariff. A tariff, moreover, is a fee imposed on imported goods that gives locally produced goods a price advantage over similar goods that are produced abroad. Essentially, there are two types of tariffs:
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With respect to products that were exported from Mexico to Canada, duty rates were decreased because Mexico is considered a developing country (Hirsch, 1995).
Including Mexico in a free trade agreement was a natural progression of the FTA since both the United States and Canada were trading with Mexico under separate bilateral agreements. Further, the fact that disputes still remained between Canada and the United States required revisions to the FTA. The main objectives of NAFTA were to eliminate trade barriers and expedite the shipment of products among the nations, to allow for fair competition and enhanced investment opportunities, to establish effective implementation procedures and a system to resolve disputes, and finally, to create a framework for the expansion of the Agreement to establish greater multi-lateral trade and cooperation (Hirsch, 1995).
Effects of NAFTA
NAFTA effectively eliminated duty rates for products flowing through the three nations and requires the importer to verify the origin of the goods. Since NAFTA was initially limited to the three signing nations, there was a need to establish strict controls to verify the country of origin of imported products. This was an especially sensitive issue for Canada, since certain wood products from the U.S. are manufactured with wood from other countries. Therefore, NAFTA established a system that places the burden on manufacturers and importers to verify the country of origin. The administrative procedures put into place require the completion of a certificate of origin. This is a statement provided by the supplier of a good or service that the product is in compliance with the rules of origin requirements of the agreement (Hirsch, 1995).
At the time NAFTA was being negotiated, it was a hot button political issue that played a role in the presidential campaigns in all three nations. However, since the Agreement was signed in 1994, there has been an increase in free trade among Canada, Mexico and the United States. Trade is considered "free" or open when goods or services can be delivered into markets without duty restrictions and, therefore, prices are ultimately determined by supply and demand. One of the objectives of free trade is to provide consumers expanded choices for goods and services. This increased competition should result in lower prices and improved quality of products and most importantly economic stability in the North American marketplace.
While each of the signatory nations to NAFTA has benefited from the pact, there have been complications. The establishment of the WTO in 1995 and the agreements of the Uruguay Round contained provisions for eliminating tariffs that replaced or superseded those established by NAFTA. Moreover, after China was granted most favored nation status by the U.S. and eventually admitted into the WTO, increased trade between China and the United States affected trading levels with Mexico and Canada. In fact, for a time, China became America's largest trading partner and American manufacturing jobs that many claimed would be lost to Mexico were actually lost to China; however, as of 2013, Canada and Mexico are again the largest trading partners with the United States (Bury, 2004; US Census, 2013).
Notwithstanding the foregoing impediments to the success of NAFTA, the Agreement has been positive for all three signatories. In addition to the benefits that have arisen for consumers, there have also been benefits for certain North American businesses and industries. From the perspective of the United States, many businesses gained access to...


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Hauschka records make for peculiar cultural artefacts. Granted, in some sense they're just almanacs of Volker Bertelmann's fidgeting, mechanical prepared piano compositions. But there's a historical baggage, too: back when the piano took office from the ageing harpsichord, it was swiftly heralded as the instrument that would furnish generations of musicians with a brand new palette of sound. But slowly, the tinkling of ivories lost began to lose its novelty, and it quickly fell to one Mr. John Cage to reinvigorate the sound of the instrument once more. Cage 'prepared' his piano, drastically distorting its sound by inserting surplus materials from his local B&Q (nuts, bolts, scraps of metal and plastic, etc.) between the hammers and strings.
A few particulars aside, it's this prepared piano that Bertelmann has come to inherit. But Hauschka's position in this (very condensed) history isn't quite that straightforward. Bertelmann's instrument of choice may invoke very specific historical associations, but musically, he's not interested in Cage's avant gardisms, nor does he compose with the spectres of Liszt and Schumann breathing down his neck. Instead, new set Abandoned City takes as its point of departure a type music that's only existed since digital developments have rendered the very problem of finding 'new' sonorities somewhat redundant (electronic, dance-oriented music). What we're left with is a kind of chronological mismatch between 'now' and 'then'; of history folded back in on itself.
This vaguely archaic quality pervades Abandoned City (the clue, after all, is in the name), and the sense of Bertelmann's antiquated instrument shaking, rattling—almost falling apart—is more palpable than ever before. Where 2011's Salon Des Amateurs made a selling point of its precise rhythmicality, Abandoned City deals in rough approximates. Erratic echoes tremble uncomfortably on the peripheries of 'Elisabeth Bay,' and hollow percussive knocks line the edges of 'Agdam'.
What's impressive is that every one of these vastly different textural components originates from that same, historically freighted source (the piano). Hauschka's innovative 'preparations' can be held partly accountable, but so too can his recording setup. Nine microphones preserve the sound of hammers hitting the strings exactly as they're heard, with a further three passing through an effects unit – if Bertelmann is unable to render a desired sound through physical adaptations, digital manipulations provide a fruitful workaround. (See Matthew Herbert's One Pig for similar, albeit more leftfield, approach to cutting a whole tapestry from a single cloth).
It's this modest system from which Hauschka creates Abandoned City's nine tracks – each evidently named after a specific vacant city around the world. On paper, that's an interesting conceit, but there's the odd geographical misfire here. Take 'Thames Town', apparently after a newly built, quickly deserted Chinese city – almost immediately, it evokes a sense of some dancehall-indebted R&B track from the forgotten days of MTV Bass. The same goes for 'Sanzhi Pod City' – a track that presumably, again, shoots for the Far East, but after a fairly severe ricochet ends up in Kingston, Jamaica instead. Thankfully, these bewildering cross-cultural tangents are few and far between, and they're swiftly erased by the likes of 'Craco' (inspired by a medieval Italian village) – at its core a study in gentle minimalism, the piano sound stripped of all its 'preparations'.
Let's face it, Bertelmann's carved out something of a niche for himself as a prepared piano composer-performer – on this virtue alone, he can claim some points for originality. By extension, Abandoned City is a fascinating study of exploiting a modest toolkit far beyond its means. But ultimately, while Abandoned City's atmospheric appropriations of various strands of dance music make for interesting listening, you might wish they appealed to instinct as much as they do the intellect.
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Hauschka - Abandoned City by City Slang
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