READING

DEFINITIONS READING

Reading es una ciudad y autoridad unitaria en el condado de Berkshire, en Inglaterra, Reino Unido.^1 2 Situada en la confluencia de los ríos Támesis y Kennet, la ciudad está a medio camino entre Londres y Oxford, al borde de la autopista M4. La pronunciación inglesa de este nombre es /ˈrɛdɪŋ/ (en la notación del Alfabeto Fonético Internacional). Obsérvese la diferencia con la forma verbal homógrafa reading ("leyendo"), cuya pronunciación es /ˈri:dɪŋ/.

El distrito tiene una población de 142.800 (2006, est.) habitantes. Reading es probablemente el centro de negocios más importante del sudeste de Inglaterra, aparte del Gran Londres. La mayoría de las compañías importantes de Gran Bretaña tienen su sede en la ciudad, que también alberga numerosas multinacionales. El Centro Europeo de Meteorología tiene su sede aquí. Es además una ciudad universitaria con una importante comunidad estudiantil.

El centro de la ciudad está situado cerca de las confluencias del Támesis y el río Kennet, lo que refleja la historia de la ciudad como puerto fluvial. Antes de la confluencia, el Kennet se extiende por una estrecha abertura para formar la planicie fluvial del Támesis. Reading está a 64 kilómetros al oeste del centro de Londres y a 40 kilómetros al sudeste de Oxford.

READING QUOTES

Quotes About Reading

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“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands

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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

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“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

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“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

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colombiareports.com

ELN insists ongoing peace talks with Colombia govt should be public

Nov 4, 2014 posted by Adriaan Alsema

(Photo: Parker Crooks)

Colombia’s second largest rebel group, the ELN, on Monday expressed its discomfort over the confidentiality of ongoing peace talks with the government. According to the guerrillas, these should be held publicly.

PROFILE: ELN

In a statement published on the guerrillas’ website, the ELN’s Central Command said that “for us it would’ve been better if we could permanently inform about the way these talks are going and the country objectively could know the steps of the talks.”

According to the rebels, the government insisted on secrecy, making this elementary for the talks to take place.

However, “we have never shared this criteria because a real peace process should be carried out facing the nation”

“It would have been in the interest of all sectors of society to know the issues related to the setting of an agenda and the framework  to guide the process towards peace,” said the ELN.

The ELN on several occasions has expressed frustration about the talks, their progress and the agreed confidentiality.

However, President Juan Manuel Santos said last month that the peace process with the ELN will remain confidential until there is something concrete to announce.

MORE: Absolute secrecy on negotiations with ELN rebels for now: Santos

Santos announced the existence of the talks in June, only five days before elections in which he secured a second term in office in spite of low approval ratings.

MORE: Colombia govt, ELN rebels announce formal peace talks

However, according to the ELN, these talks have “hardly” made progress since then.

MORE: ELN boss says ongoing peace talks are ‘important’, but ‘difficult’

The group, exceeded in size only by the FARC, has been fighting the Colombian state since 1964. The guerrillas made several unsuccessful attempts to negotiate peace with the state over the past decades. The rebel organization is thought to have some 3,000 armed fighters and another few thousand unarmed supporting activists mainly in their strongholds and in public universities.

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