presented For this week the article I choose is called “Amsterdam Tourist Cannabis Ban Rejected by Mayor” by BBC News Europe on November 1st‚ 2012. This article discusses the reasons why the Mayor Eberhard van der Laan is against banning tourist from being able buy and use cannabis. Also local café owners are behind the Mayor’s support. The new government of the Netherlands has proposed the idea of banning tourist from using the cannabis in Amsterdam. Many locals are extremely against this law of banning
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Background Over the last few years‚ the entertainment industry has become bigger and bigger. People can chose from a broad variety of offers to spend their leisure time. In the Netherlands Panama* is a famous night entertainment venue. Located in Amsterdam it offers the customer a unique
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they wear wooden shoes and all Dutch are tall‚ have blond hair and blue eyes. At least half the population is gay‚ tulips are everywhere‚ there is lots of freedom “everything is accepted”‚ Wind mills‚ the Dutch are greedy “going Dutch”‚ cheese‚ Amsterdam is heaven and every Dutch shed keeps at least a dozen bicycles. All of these are stereotypes of the Netherlands and the Dutch culture. Some are true and some are false. Yes‚ they are commonly tall but not all of them. Yes‚ soft drugs are legalized
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The three main characters in _Gangs of New York_ are Amsterdam Vallon (Leonardo DiCaprio)‚ William Cutting aka Bill ’the Butcher ’ (Daniel Day-Lewis)‚ and Jenny Everdeane (Cameron Diaz). Other notable characters include Priest Vallon‚ Amsterdam ’s father (Liam Neeson)‚ Johnny Sirocco (Henry Thomas)‚ and ’Happy ’ Jack Mulroney (John C. Reilly). The story opened in 1846 at the Five Points in New York City‚ known today as Lower Manhattan. Amsterdam ’s father‚ Priest Vallon‚ was the leader of a gang
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Going to Amsterdam was not an easy task. Hazel could not use the wish from the cancer make a wish company‚ as she had spent her wish on Disneyland. Because she had done this‚ Gus had decided to spend his wish on them going to Amsterdam as he had not used his wish yet. There was one problem however. Hazel couldn’t go as the doctors said that it was unsafe. Thankfully though‚ her parents have helped her and instead of going for six days to Amsterdam‚ they went for three days and
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A New Gear in the CFSP Machinery: Integration of the Petersberg Tasks in the Treaty on European Union Fabrizio Pagani* Abstract Article ]. 7 of the Amsterdam Treaty‚ which amends the Treaty on European Union‚ establishes that the Western European Union shall provide the European Union with access to an operational capability for ’humanitarian and rescue tasks‚ peace-keeping tasks and tasks of combat forces in crisis management‚ including peacemaking’. Making reference to the 1992 WEU Petersberg
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Martin Scorsese’s latest film‚ Gangs of New York is a failed anti-war film. It is 165 minutes of some of the most violent footage ever seen in a film intended for mainstream entertainment. As a fan of Scorsese’s‚ I have to say that even the brutality of Good Fellas could not have prepared me for the assault that is the experience of watching this film. Even leaving aside the violence‚ I admit that I am mystified by all the hoopla surrounding Gangs of New York. Leonardo Di Caprio only slightly adapts
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PRAGMATIC INTERPRETATION AND DIALOGUE MANAGEMENT IN SPOKEN-LANGUAGE SYSTEMS Gert Veldhuijzen van Zanten Institute for Perception Research P.O.Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands e-mail: veldhvz@natlab.research.philips.com ABSTRACT This paper describes the design of pragmatic-interpretation and dialogue-management modules in an automatic inquiry system that can be consulted through spoken natural language over the telephone. The system is designed around a central multi-level
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colony of New Amsterdam‚ the Dutch West India Company (WIC) was focused on trading manufactured goods with native peoples for furs‚ specifically beaver pelts. Louisiana‚ New Orleans especially‚ was set up for trade as well‚ with a great position at the Mississippi delta. This deep desire to trade for both countries led to complex‚ and mostly friendly‚ interactions with the surrounding native peoples. However‚ these two colonial ventures were also quite different. First‚ New Amsterdam seems to have
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extremely complex‚ whereas other characters like Patrick and Monica are much less complex. Augustus Waters and Hazel Grace Lancaster interact with each other affectionately and passionately. Their relationship affects the plot by taking them to Amsterdam‚ thus meeting Peter Van Houten and Lidewij Vliegenthart. Their relationship also eventually
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