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Butler County (county code BU) is a county in the southern part of the U.S. state of Kansas.
In 2010, 65,880 people lived there.
Its county seat is El Dorado.
El Dorado is also the biggest city in Butler County.
Of that,  is land and  (1.2%) is water.
It is the biggest county by size in Kansas.
Kansas Highway 177
Kansas Highway 196
Kansas Highway 254
History of Butler County, Kansas; Vol P Mooney; Standard Publishing; 869 pages; 1916.
An Illustrated Hand Book, Compiled from the Official Statistics, Descriptive of Butler County, Kansas; 66 pages; T.B. Murdock; 1887.
Standard Atlas of Butler County, Kansas; Geo.
A. Ogle & Co; 69 pages; 1905.
Standard Atlas of Butler County, Kansas; Walter F. McGinnis & I.C. Thomas; 59 pages; 1885.
Butler County - Directory of Public Officials
Butler County GenWeb
Butler County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
Jefferson County (county code JF) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas.
In 2010, 19,126 people lived there.
Its county seat is Oskaloosa.
Its biggest city is Valley Falls.
Of that,  is land and  (4.3%) is water.
Valley Falls USD 338
Jefferson County North USD 339
Jefferson West USD 340
Oskaloosa USD 341
McLouth USD 342
Perry-Lecompton USD 343
Standard Atlas of Jefferson County, Kansas; Geo.
A. Ogle & Co; 69 pages; 1916.
Descriptive Atlas of Jefferson County, Kansas; Acme Publishing Co; 44 pages; 1899.
Jefferson County - Directory of Public Officials
Jefferson County - Economic Development
Jefferson County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
Slack is an online messaging app with fancier features.
Stewart Butterfield helped create it.
It was originally for a video game.
But then they just made it a simple messaging app and dropped the video game idea. "
Slack" stands for "Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge."
Ebook "How to Use Slack"
Peter Andreas Thiel (teel; born October 11, 1967) is an American entrepreneur.
He helped create PayPal, Palantir Technologies and Founders Fund.
In 2018, he supposedly had $2.5 billion.
Thiel was born in Frankfurt.
As a baby, he moved with his family to the United States.
He spent some time in Southern Africa.
He studied philosophy at Stanford University, graduating with a B.A. in 1989.
He then went on to the Stanford Law School and received his J.D. in 1992.
He worked as a lawyer, speechwriter, and trader.
He founded Thiel Capital in 1996.
He co-founded PayPal in 1999.
He was chief executive officer until he sold the company to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.
He founded Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge fund.
He launched Palantir Technologies, a big data analysis company, in 2004 and continues to serve as its chairman as of 2018.
He helped create Founders Fund, a venture capital firm.
Thiel became Facebook's first outside investor by buying 10.2% for $500,000 in August 2004.
He sold the majority of his shares in Facebook for over $1 billion in 2012, but remains on the board of directors.
He also co-founded Valar Ventures in 2010, co-founded Mithril Capital.
Jackson County (county code JA) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas.
In 2010, 13,462 people lived there.
Its county seat is Holton.
Holton is also the biggest city in Jackson County.
The county was first named Calhoun County.
This was named after pro-slavery South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun.
The county was renamed in 1859 for President Andrew Jackson.
The Prairie Band Potawatomi Indian Reservation is in the county, and it makes up about 18.5% of the county's area.
Of that,  is land and  (0.3%) is water.
Jackson County has supported the Republican Party candidate in every presidential election from 1936 onward.
Democratic Party candidates for president have only won the county twice since 1888, in 1912 & 1932.
Jackson Heights USD 335
Holton USD 336
Royal Valley USD 337
Standard Atlas of Jackson County, Kansas; Geo.
A. Ogle & Co; 66 pages; 1921.
Plat Book of Jackson County, Kansas; North West Publishing Co; 39 pages; 1903.
Jackson County - Directory of Public Officials
Jackson County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
Crawford County (county code CR) is a county in Southeast Kansas.
In 2010 census, 39,134 people lived there.
Its county seat is Girard.
Its biggest city is Pittsburg.
The county was named after Samuel J. Crawford, Governor of Kansas.
It is in the Osage Cuestas and Cherokee Lowlands.
It is halfway between Kansas City, Missouri and Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Pittsburg State University is located in Crawford County.
Of that,  is land and  (0.9%) is water.
Plat Book of Crawford County, Kansas; North West Publishing Co; 54 pages; 1906.
Crawford County - Directory of Public Officials
Crawford County - Convention and Visitors Bureau
Crawford Co. Kansas History and Heritage - Genealogy
Crawford County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
Neomercantilism is a government policy that supports more exports, less imports, and more control over investment (capital movement).
Also, the government has the power to make decisions involving money (currency).
The goal is to increase foreign reserves, which gives the government more power over money.
The idea comes from Keynesian economics.
According to UNESCO, mercantilism is the belief that the state's wealth must be protected by the government.
This makes the state's money a nationalistic concern.
Economists think this happens because as a country sells more and gets richer, it pays higher wages.
This increases the cost of selling stuff.
So the countries lose their competitive advantage and get stuck, unable to sell more and get richer.
I don't want to fall into the trap
To avoid the trap, a country could find better ways to make goods and reduce the cost of making them.
They could also find new people or countries to sell their goods to.
An increasing middle class could also use their money to buy fancy stuff that helps further promote growth: this includes better education, better technology and infrastructure, studying science and technology to create more innovations.
Cowley County (county code CL) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas.
In 2010, 36,311 people lived there.
Its biggest city is Arkansas City.
USD 462, Central
USD 463, Udall
USD 465, Winfield
USD 470, Arkansas city
USD 471, Dexter
Cowley College
St. John's College closed in 1986
Geuda Springs (partly in Sumner County)
History of Cowley County Kansas; D.A. Millington / E.P. Greer; Winfield Courier; 162 pages; 1901. (
Download 16MB PDF eBook)
Standard Atlas of Cowley County, Kansas; Geo.
A. Ogle & Co; 54 pages; 1905.
Edwards' Historical Atlas of Cowley County, Kansas; John P. Edwards; 52 pages; 1882.
Cowley County - Directory of Public Officials
Cowley County - GenWeb
Cowley County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
The Wichita, KS Metropolitan Statistical Area is an area that has five counties in south central Kansas.
Its main place is the city of Wichita.
In 2013, the area had 637,989 people living there.
It is the biggest metropolitan area in the state of Kansas.
Places with more than 300,000 people
Wichita (Principal city) Pop: 389,902
Places with 10,000 to 25,000 people
Derby Pop: 22,158
Newton Pop: 19,132
El Dorado Pop: 13,021
Winfield Pop: 12,204
Arkansas City Pop: 12,136
Andover Pop: 11,791
Haysville Pop: 10,826
Places with 5,000 to 10,000 people
Augusta Pop: 9,274
Wellington Pop: 8,172
Park City Pop: 7,297
Valley Center Pop: 6,822
Bel Aire Pop: 6,769
Mulvane Pop: 6,111
Places with 1,000 to 5,000 people
Goddard Pop: 4,344
Rose Hill Pop: 3,931
Hesston Pop: 3,709
Maize Pop: 3,420
Oaklawn-Sunview (census-designated place) Pop: 3,276
Clearwater Pop: 2,481
Cheney Pop: 2,094
Halstead Pop: 2,085
Kechi Pop: 1,909
McConnell Air Force Base (census-designated place) Pop: 1,777
North Newton Pop: 1,759
Douglass Pop: 1,700
Sedgwick Pop: 1,695
Belle Plaine Pop: 1,681
Towanda Pop: 1,450
Colwich Pop: 1,327
Conway Springs Pop: 1,272
Caldwell Pop: 1,068
Oxford Pop: 1,049
Places with fewer than 1,000 people
Andale Pop: 928
Burrton Pop: 901
Benton Pop: 880
Garden Plain Pop: 840
Mount Hope Pop: 813
Eastborough Pop: 773
Whitewater Pop: 718
Leon Pop: 704
Bentley Pop: 530
Argonia Pop: 501
Potwin Pop: 449
South Haven Pop: 363
Walton Pop: 235
Elbing Pop: 229
Geuda Springs (partial) Pop: 185
Latham Pop: 139
Viola Pop: 130
Cassoday Pop: 129
Mayfield Pop: 113
Milan Pop: 82
Hunnewell Pop: 67
http://2010.census.gov/2010census/popmap/
Finney County (county code FI) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas.
In 2010, 36,776 people lived there.
Its biggest city is also Garden City.
Finney County was created around 1880.
It was called Buffalo County and Sequoyah County.
They were named after Sequoyah, the Cherokee Indian responsible for the creation of the Cherokee alphabet.
The two counties were renamed Finney County.
It was named after Lieutenant Governor David Wesley Finney.
Charles "Buffalo" Jones was the first member of the Kansas House of Representatives from Finney County.
He tried to stop the buffalo from extinction.
Of that,  is land and  (0.05%) is water.
Presidential election results
Finney County has often supported Republican presidential candidates.
The last time it supported a Democrat was in 1976.
This was when Jimmy Carter won the county by only 102 votes.
Holcomb USD 363
Garden City USD 457
Plat Book of Finney County, Kansas; Western Publishing Company; 50 pages; 1910.
Finney County - Directory of Public Officials
Finney County Public Library
Finney County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
1883 establishments in Kansas
Zion is one of the seventy names of Jerusalem, and in the Bible is the second name for Jerusalem after the name "Jerusalem".
The name "Zion" originally revolves around a certain area in the city.
It is customary to delineate the site in the eastern and southern part of Jerusalem during the Second Temple period, including the City of David, the Ophel and Mount Moriah.
The Levites of the Book of Leviticus were priests.
In that book and the Book of Numbers they help Moses make prayers to God in the tabernacle (a holy tent).
The Promised Land (, translit.:
ha'aretz hamuvtakhat; , translit.:
ard al-mi'ad; also known as "The Land of Milk and Honey") is very important in the Hebrew Bible.
It is the land that God promised to Abraham and his descendants.
Nowadays, it refers to the restored homeland for the Jewish people, a path to salvation and liberation, or both.
Conquest of Canaan
Greater Israel (; Eretz Yisrael Hashlema) refers to the historic or desired borders of Israel.
It is a form of irredentism.
It usually refers to the State of Israel together with the Palestinian territories.
It is used in the Bible, sometimes called the Land of Israel.
See , , ,  or .
Beitar Illit (; officially Betar Illit; "Illit" is pronounced "ee-leet"; ) is an Israeli settlement organized as a city council,  south of Jerusalem,  in the Judaean Mountains of the West Bank.
Beitar Illit, part of the Gush Etzion "settlement bloc",  is one of Israel's largest and most rapidly growing settlements,  and in  had a population of .
The fiery flying serpent is a snake creature mentioned in the Hebrew Bible (Book of Isaiah, the Book of Numbers, etc.).
In biology it is the Echis coloratus (saw-scale viper).
"Fiery flying serpent" is an English translation of the Hebrew words , shārāp (a "fiery serpent") me‘ōpêp ("flying").
The Nehushtan (Hebrew:  Nəḥuštān [nə.ħuʃ.taːn]) is the bronze serpent on a pole first described in the Book of Numbers.
God told Moses to make it.
This was to cure the Israelites.
Those who saw the nehushtan would be cured from the deathly bites of the "fiery serpents".
God initially sent the fiery serpents to punish them for speaking against Him and Moses ().
In the biblical Books of Kings (; written c. 550 BCE), King Hezekiah leads an iconoclastic reform.
This requires the destruction of "the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and it was called Nehushtan".
McPherson County (standard abbreviation: MP) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas.
In 2010, 29,180 people lived there.
The biggest city is McPherson.
The county is named after Civil War General James B. McPherson.
Of that  is land and  (0.3%) is water.
Interstate 135
K-4
K-61
K-153
McPherson county is often carried by Republican Candidates.
The last time a democratic candidate has carried this county was in 1964 by Lyndon B. Johnson.
USD 400, Smoky Valley
Lindsborg, Marquette, Rural Areas
McPherson, Rural Areas
USD 419, Canton-Galva
Canton, Galva, Rural Areas
Moundridge, Rural Areas
USD 448, Inman
Inman, Rural Areas
District Office In Neighboring County
USD 411, Goessel
Rural Areas
Windom, Rural Areas
Through the Years: A Pictorial History of McPherson County; McPherson Sentinel' Heritage House Publishing Co; 1992.
McPherson County First Courthouse Built About 1869 or 1870; Lindsborg News-Record; March 30, 1959.
Pioneer Life and Lore of McPherson County, Kansas; Edna Nyquist; Democratic-Opinion Press; 1932.
A History of the Church of the Brethren in Kansas (includes McPherson College history); Elmer LeRoy Craik; McPherson Daily; Republican Press; 397 pages; 1922.
Portrait and Biographical Record of Dickinson, Saline, McPherson, and Marion Counties, Kansas; Chapman Bros; 614 pages; 1893.
Standard Atlas of McPherson County, Kansas; Geo.
A. Ogle & Co; 82 pages; 1921.
Plat Book of McPherson County, Kansas; North West Publishing Co; 50 pages; 1903.
Edwards' Atlas of McPherson County, Kansas; John P. Edwards; 51 pages; 1884.
The National Old Trails Road To Southern California, Part 1 (LA to KC); Automobile Club Of Southern California; 64 pages; 1916. (
Download 6.8MB PDF eBook)
Mennonite Settlements
Impact of Mennonite settlement on the cultural landscape of Kansas; Brenda Martin; Kansas State University; 1985/1988.
Mennonite settlement : the relationship between the physical and cultural environment; Susan Movle; University of Utah; 1975/1886.
Status of Mennonite women in Kansas in their church and home relationships; Eva Harshbarger; Bluffton College; 1925/1945.
McPherson County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
Wendelin Werner (born 23 September 1968) is a German-born French mathematician.
He works on random processes such as self-avoiding random walks, Brownian motion, Schramm–Loewner evolution, and probability theory and mathematical physics.
In 2006, he won the Fields Medal "for his contributions to the development of stochastic Loewner evolution, the geometry of two-dimensional Brownian motion, and conformal field theory".
He is professor at ETH Zürich.
Harvey County (county code HV) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas.
In 2010, 34,684 people lived there.
Newton is also the biggest city in Harvey County.
Of that,  is land and  (0.2%) is water.
The Little Arkansas River goes through the county.
USD 369, Burrton
Burrton, Rural Areas
USD 373, Newton
Newton, Walton, Rural Areas
USD 439, Sedgwick
Sedgwick, Rural Areas
USD 440, Halstead
Halstead, Rural Areas
USD 460, Hesston
Hesston, Rural Areas
USD 206, Remington-Whitewater
USD 398, Peabody-Burns
USD 423, Moundridge
Standard Atlas of Harvey County, Kansas; Geo.
A. Ogle & Co; 70 pages; 1918.
Plat Book of Harvey County, Kansas; North West Publishing Co; 34 pages; 1902.
Historical Atlas of Harvey County, Kansas; 33 pages; John P. Edwards; 1882.
Bernhard Warkentin and the Kansas Mennonite Pioneers; David A. Haury; Mennonite Life; December 1974.
Harvey County - Directory of Public Officials
Harvey County - Economic Development Council
Harvey County Historical Society
Harvey County Genealogical Society
Harvey County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
1872 establishments in Kansas
Greeley County (county code GL) is a county in western Kansas.
It is in the Central United States.
In 2010, 1,247 people lived there.
It is the county with the fewest number of people living in it in Kansas.
Its county seat is Tribune.
Tribune is also the biggest city in the county.
The county is named after Horace Greeley of Chappaqua, New York, editor of the New York Tribune.
Greeley helped western settlement with the motto  "Go West, young man".
It is the largest of five United States counties and twelve (Virginia) independent cities that officially have no water area.
This county is often chooses Republican candidates.
The last time a Democratic candidate won the county was in 1976.
A Democratic candidate has only won the county three times in its history: 1932 (Franklin D. Roosevelt), 1964 (Lyndon B. Johnson), and most recently in 1976 by Jimmy Carter.
Greeley County Schools, USD 200
Greeley County - Directory of Public Officials
Greeley County Library
Greeley County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
1873 establishments in Kansas
Allen County (county code AL) is a county located in southeast portion of the U.S. state of Kansas.
In 2010, 13,371 people lived there.
Its county seat is Iola.
Iola is also the biggest city in Allen County.
Of that,  is land and  (1.0%) is water.
Allen County is located in the southeastern part of Kansas.
Marmaton Valley USD 256
Iola USD 257
Humboldt USD 258
Atlas and plat book of Allen County, Kansas; Kenyon Company; 90 pages; 1921.
Plat book of Allen County, Kansas; North West Publishing Co; 33 pages; 1906.
Allen County - Directory of Public Officials
Allen County - History, Kansas State Historical Society
Allen County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
Barton County (standard abbreviation: BT) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas.
In 2010, 27,674 people lived there.
Its county seat is Great Bend.
Great Bend is also the biggest city in Barton County.
The county is named after Clara Barton.
She was responsible for the creating the American Red Cross.
In 1867, Barton County was created.
It was named after Clara Barton.
It is the only Kansas county named after a woman.
Barton County was drawn in the shape of a  square.
U.S. Route 281
Kansas Highway 4
Kansas Highway 156
Prior to 1940, Barton County was a Democratic-leaning swing county in presidential elections, being a national bellwether from 1912 to 1936.
From 1940 on, it has become a Republican Party stronghold, with the solitary Democratic Party presidential candidate to carry it since then being Lyndon B. Johnson in his national landslide of 1964.
Central Plains USD 112
Ellinwood USD 355
Great Bend USD 428
Hoisington USD 431
Otis-Bison USD 403 (Rush County)
Atlas and Plat Book of Barton County, Kansas; Kenyon Co; 55 pages; 1916.
Plat Book of Barton County, Kansas; North West Publishing Co; 47 pages; 1902.
The Story of the Marking of the Santa Fe Trail by the Daughters of the American Revolution in Kansas and the State of Kansas; Almira Cordry; Crane Co; 164 pages; 1915.
The National Old Trails Road To Southern California, Part 1 (LA to KC); Automobile Club Of Southern California; 64 pages; 1916.
Barton County - Directory of Public Officials
Barton County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
Franklin County (county code FR) is a county in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Kansas.
In 2010, 25,992 people lived there.
Ottawa is also the biggest city in Franklin County.
The county is mostly rural.
It was Kansas City metropolitan area, but it no longer is since 2013.
K-33
K-68
Franklin County is in the Ottawa, KS Micropolitan Statistical Area.
It was included in the Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS Combined Statistical Area.
Franklin County is often carried by Republican Candidates.
The last time a democratic candidate has carried Franklin County was in 1964 by Lyndon B. Johnson.
West Franklin USD 287 (Web site)
Central Heights USD 288 (Web site)
Wellsville USD 289 (Web site)
Ottawa USD 290 (Web site)
Ottawa University, Ottawa
Neosho County Community College (branch campus), Ottawa
Standard Atlas of Franklin County, Kansas; Geo.
A. Ogle & Co; 69 pages; 1920.
Plat Book of Franklin County, Kansas; North West Publishing Co; 36 pages; 1903.
Franklin County - Directory of Public Officials
Franklin County Genealogical Society
Franklin County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
Dickinson County (county code DK) is a county in Central Kansas.
In 2010, 19,754 people lived there.
Abilene is also the biggest city in Dickinson County.
The county was named after Daniel S. Dickinson.
In 1887, the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway built a railroad from Topeka to Herington.
This main line connected Topeka, Valencia, Willard, Maple Hill, Vera, Paxico, McFarland, Alma, Volland, Alta Vista, Dwight, White City, Latimer, Herington.
In 2010, the Keystone-Cushing Pipeline (Phase II) was built through Dickinson County.
There was a lot of controversy about tax exemption and environmental concerns.
USD 393, Solomon
Solomon, Rural Areas
USD 435, Abilene
Abilene, Rural Areas
USD 473, Chapman
Chapman, Carlton, Manchester, Enterprise, Rural Areas
USD 487, Herington
Herington, Rural Areas
USD 481, Rural Vista (headquarters in White City)
Hope, Woodbine, Rural Areas
Solomon (partly in Saline County)
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961.
He moved to Abilene when he was 2 years old.
He was Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe World War II.
He planned the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45.
The Eisenhower Library is in Abilene.
The Scully Land System in Marion County, Kansas; Homer Socolofsky; Kansas State University; 110 pages; 1944/1947. (
includes Dickinson County)
Standard Atlas of Dickinson County, Kansas; Geo.
Plat Book and Complete Survey of Dickinson County, Kansas; Kenyon Company ; 54 pages; 1909.
A. Ogle & Co; 63 pages; 1901.
Dickinson County Kansas History and Heritage Project
Dickinson County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
Chief Ahan was a First Nations leader who was executed  in 1865.
He was exonerated by Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada, in 2018.
Józefa Franciszka Joteyko (29 January 1866 – 24 April 1928) was a Polish medical doctor, physiologist, psychologist, pedagogist, and co-organizer of special education in Warsaw.
She was born on January, 29, 1866, in Poczujki and died on April, 24, 1928, in Warsaw.
In an industrial society, people use technology to produce a lot of things (mass production).
This leads to a large population with an organized division of labour.
This happened to the Western world during the Industrial Revolution.
This replaced farming or agrarian societies of the pre-modern age.
The US and many European nations are examples of industrial societies.
China and India are also somewhat industrial but large parts of their populations still farm.
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Explosive Defence Group, a counter-terrorism unit in Singapore.
CBRE Group, a multinational real estate corporation.
Certified Broadcast Radio Engineer, a professional title regulated by The Society of Broadcast Engineers.
The business was established by Alfred Savill (1829 - 1905) in 1855 in London.
By the time of Alfred Savill's death in 1905 his sons Alfred, Edwin and Norman were established in partnership.
In the 1920s the firm moved to Lincoln's Inn Fields.
During the Second World War Norman Savill went to Wimborne in Dorset, taking vital records with him.
The remaining partners stayed at Lincoln’s Inn Field.
By the 1970s, the firm was re-branded as Savills.
The firm was incorporated as a limited company in 1987 and was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1988.
In 1997 Savills merged with First Pacific Davies () in Asia.
In 1998 it bought majority stakes in the German, French and Spanish arms of Weatherall, Green & Smith.
In June 2015 it completed the acquisition of Smiths Gore, provider of rural and residential property services in the UK.
In June 2016, Savills plc announced its proprietary investment subsidiary, Grosvenor Hill Ventures, had acquired a minority stake in YOPA Property Ltd, a UK-based online hybrid estate agent.
Savills announced in August 2016 that it had acquired GBR Phoenix Beard, a Midlands-based commercial property consultancy, strengthening its UK real estate services.
Expansion continued in July 2017, with the acquisition of Larry Smith Italia, a leading commercial management and leasing business in Italy.
The company's European operations grew further in December 2017 when Savills acquired Aguirre Newman S.A., the leading independent Spanish and Portuguese real estate advisory; the newly combined business was rebranded as Savills Aguirre Newman in January 2018.
The company provides consulting services and advice (such as valuation, building consultancy, project management, environmental consultancy, landlord and tenant, planning, strategic projects and research) in connection with commercial, residential and agricultural properties, property-related financial services and investment management, which includes investment management for institutional or professional investors.
Savills operates from over 600 owned and associate offices, employing more than 35,000 people in over 60 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East.
In 2016 Australia rose to second place after Japan for cross border capital inflow in the Asia Pacific region, largely due to an increase in China's investment in Sydney's CBD, up 44 per cent from $4.5 billion the year before to $6.46 billion.
In May 2013 Savills set the record for the highest price for a development site in Brisbane with the sale of the Supreme Court site at 300 George Street for $63M to the  Taiwanese developer Shayher Group, to become a mixed-use precinct including a five-star hotel.
Shayher Group was required to build a 65,000sqm residential, serviced apartment tower and a 45,000sqm commercial office tower.
In May 2014, Savills announced it has established a presence in Jakarta, Indonesia, working in partnership with local experts, Property Connection Indonesia.
In 2015 Savills established an Office Services and Occupier Representation capability,  expanding its Jakarta based business, when staff joined Savills Indonesia from property consultancy JLL.
In June 2014, Savills announced it had acquired 100% of Studley, Inc. a leading US independent commercial real estate services firm specialising in tenant representation with twenty five offices across the United States.
Within the US, the new business was branded as Savills Studley.
Studley was acquired in a $260 million deal including cash, Savills stock and promissory notes.
Studley was founded in 1954 by Julien Studley, and in 2002 was bought by its 139 partners.
The Savills deal brought more than 400 brokers and 175 support workers from Studley to the new firm.
In February 2015, Savills announced it had acquired a substantial shareholding in a Malaysian real estate business, previously trading as CBRE in Malaysia.
The business has close to 300 staff, and offices in Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Johor.
Savills Malaysia managing director is Allan Soo.
In June 2018, Savills announced it had acquired Cluttons Middle East business.
Providing Agency, Management and Consultancy advice in both the Commercial and Residential sectors, the business employs 190 staff in offices across the UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, Oman and Saudi Arabia.
The acquisition, which was completed on 31 May 2018, saw Savills take full ownership of Cluttons Middle East, which had been established in the region for more than 40 years.
Cluttons Middle East is due to be re-branded as Savills during 2018.
Savills Vietnam is the largest and most experienced real estate practice in Vietnam, with offices in Hanoi, Danang and Ho Chi Minh City.
In addition to residential real estate and investment brokerage, Savills Vietnam is also active in the hotel and leisure sector.
In addition to providing advisory and industrial services, Savills Vietnam is also active in property management.
Surpassing other leading property professionals including CBRE and JLL, Savills Vietnam was recognized as Vietnam’s Best Property Consultancy and Best Real Estate Agency at the prestigious Asia Pacific Property Awards.
The official announcement was made at the iPAX Asia Pacific Awards Ceremony on the third and fourth of May, 2018 in Thailand.
These awards mark Savills Vietnam success for the 8th consecutive and last year with the programme.
CBRE Group
Jones Lang LaSalle
Colliers International
Knight Frank
DTZ
CresaPartners
Foxtons
Hurricane Barry was the fourth recorded storm to make landfall at hurricane strength on the state of Louisiana in the month of July, the others being Bob in 1979, Danny in 1997, and Cindy in 2005.
The second named storm and first hurricane of the annual hurricane season, Barry originated as a mesoscale convective vortex over the Midwestern United States on July 4.
The system emerged into the Gulf of Mexico on July 10 and was classified as a potential tropical cyclone later that day.
The system developed into a tropical storm on the next day, becoming the second named storm of the season.
On July 13, Barry attained maximum 1-minute sustained winds of 75 mph (120 km/h), with a minimum central pressure of 991 millibars (29.3 inHg), becoming the first hurricane of the season.
Later that day, Barry made landfall on Marsh Island and Intracoastal City, Louisiana both times as a Category 1 hurricane, subsequently weakening to tropical storm status.
Late on July 15, Barry degenerated into a remnant low over northern Arkansas, before dissipating on July 19.
The storm originated from a low pressure area inside the Midwestern USA.
It tracked south, and became a broad area of low pressure which the National Hurricane Center assessed a high chance that the low could become a tropical cyclone.
By the morning of July 13, the thunderstorms moved closer to the center of circulation, as upper-level outflow expanded in all directions.
The NHC estimated that Barry attained Category 1 hurricane status by 12:00 UTC that day, concluding that Barry was producing a small area of hurricane-force winds based on observations from the Hurricane Hunters, Doppler radar wind estimates of 75 mph (121 km/h), and recorded sustained winds of 72 mph (116 km/h) at Eugene Island oil field.
Simultaneously, the storm reached its peak intensity, with a minimum central pressure of 991 millibars (29.3 inHg).
At 18:00 UTC that day, Barry made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on Intracoastal City, Louisiana, before weakening to tropical storm status.
This made Barry the fourth tropical cyclone recorded making landfall as a hurricane on Louisiana in the month of July.
On Florida, multiple beaches were closed prior to the formation of Barry.
However, some swimmers ignored the warnings and a 67 year-old man was reported to be dead.
In addition, there were strong winds and thunderstorms from the disturbance that would later become Barry in the Gulf of Mexico.
Tropical Storm Barry dropped locally heavy rainfall along its path, peaking at 23.43 in (595 mm) near Ragley, Louisiana.
Waterspouts were reported on Lake Pontchartrain.
One tornado struck the Gentilly neighborhood in New Orleans, damaging two homes.
A tide station in Amereda Pass recorded a storm surge of nearly 7 ft (2.1 m).
On the southern shore of Lake Pontchartrain, storm surge exceeded 3 ft (0.91 m), while its northern shores expected tides 3 to 5 ft (0.91 to 1.52 m) above normal.
Flooding also occurred on the banks of the Atchafalaya River in Morgan City, Louisiana.
The Lower Dularge East Levee in Terrebonne Parish was overtopped, prompting a mandatory evacuation for nearby areas.
On the afternoon of July 12, Louisiana Highway 1 south of Golden Meadow—the only thoroughfare leading out of Grand Isle and Port Fourchon—was closed after seawater began to inundate portions of the road.
As Barry moved ashore the Louisiana coast on July 13, Entergy and Cleco, the two major electricity companies in southern Louisiana, reported the loss of power to over 114,000 customers.
Power lines knocked down by fallen trees in the Metairie area cut power to 5,140 electricity customers in the New Orleans metropolitan area.
The most widespread power outages occurred where wind speeds were highest in Lafourche Parish and Terrebonne Parish, as well as eastern Baton Rouge; over 39,000 lost power in these areas.
All electricity customers in Grand Isle lost power, and a total of 4,300 customers were affected by power outages as Barry's initial rainbands swept across coastal Louisiana.
In Southern Ontario, many highways were blocked and several cars were submerged.
Unusually, the storm produced a funnel cloud in Oro-Medonte, Southern Ontario.
In Arkansas, the highest rainfall total of  was recorded.
A police station was flooded and a highway was closed.
Also, 20 people and more than 70 animals were rescued from floodwaters.
No one died in the state.
Holland's schema theorem, also called the fundamental theorem of genetic algorithms, is a theorem regarding genetic algorithms.
It says that individuals with a fitness that is higher than average are more likely to prevail.
John Holland proposed the theorem in the 1970s.
At the start, it was used as the foundation for explanations of the power of genetic algorithms.
This interpreation  has been criticized in several publications, where the Schema Theorem is shown to be a special case of the Price equation with the schema indicator function as the macroscopic measurement.
A schema is a template that identifies a subset of strings with similarities at certain string positions.
Schemata are a special case of cylinder sets, and hence form a topological space.
Consider binary strings of length 6.
The schema 1*10*1 describes the set of all strings of length 6 with 1's at positions 1, 3 and 6 and a 0 at position 4.
The * is a wildcard symbol, which means that positions 2 and 5 can have a value of either 1 or 0.
The order of a schema  is defined as the number of fixed positions in the template, while the defining length  is the distance between the first and last specific positions.
The order of 1*10*1 is 4 and its defining length is 5.
The fitness of a schema is the average fitness of all strings matching the schema.
The fitness of a string is a measure of the value of the encoded problem solution, as computed by a problem-specific evaluation function.
Using the established methods and genetic operators of genetic algorithms, the schema theorem states that short, low-order schemata with above-average fitness increase exponentially in successive generations.
Expressed as an equation:
Here  is the number of strings belonging to schema  at generation ,  is the observed average fitness of schema  and  is the observed average fitness at generation .
The probability of disruption  is the probability that crossover or mutation will destroy the schema .
It can be expressed as:
where  is the order of the schema,  is the length of the code,  is the probability of mutation and  is the probability of crossover.
So a schema with a shorter defining length  is less likely to be disrupted.
An often misunderstood point is why the Schema Theorem is an inequality rather than an equality.
The answer is in fact simple: the Theorem neglects the small, yet non-zero, probability that a string belonging to the schema  will be created "from scratch" by mutation of a single string (or recombination of two strings) that did not belong to  in the previous generation.
The schema theorem holds under the assumption of a genetic algorithm that maintains an infinitely large population, but does not always carry over to (finite) practice: due to sampling error in the initial population, genetic algorithms may converge on schemata that have no selective advantage.
This happens in particular in multimodal optimization, where a function can have multiple peaks: the population may drift to prefer one of the peaks, ignoring the others.
J. Holland, Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems, The MIT Press; Reprint edition 1992 (originally published in 1975).
J. Holland, Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity, Helix Books; 1996.
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The Chinese economic reform () refers to the economic reforms in the People's Republic of China between the 1970s and 1990s.
They were led by the Communist Party of China and Deng Xiaoping and started in December 1978.
They were also called "Socialism with Chinese characteristics".
Why reform?
Before the eighteenth century, China had one of the world's largest and most advanced economies.
Adam Smith agreed.
However, Chinese economy began to slow down and even got worse by the 20th century.
This was due to things like the First Sino-Japanese War and Second Sino-Japanese War.
How did they reform?
The Communist Party began to fix the economy.
It introduced market principles in 1978.
Part 1: In the 70s and 80s, they stopped requiring everybody to farm and stopped sending young people to the countryside.
They also opened China to foreign investment, allowing people to start businesses.
However, most businesses remained owned by the government.
Part 2: In the 80s and 90s, the PRC allowed much more private control of business (less government control, privatization).
They removed price controls, protectionist policies, and regulations.
Still state monopolies in banking and petroleum remained.
The private sector grew remarkably, becoming 70% of China's gross domestic product by 2005.
From 1978 until 2013, unprecedented growth happened, with the economy increasing by 9.5% each year.
After 2005, Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao controlled the economy more heavily, reversing some reforms.
Xi Jinping undid some more reforms by allowing the government greater control in some areas of the economy.
Chinese society changed a lot because of these reforms.
They greatly reduced poverty and increased average income.
They have also led to China's rise as a world power.
They are used mostly for chemical or biochemical work.
Today, they are usually made of heat-resistant borosilicate glass.
There is at least one tubular section known as the neck with an opening at the tip.
Two or three-necked flasks are made.
Round bottom flasks come in many sizes.
Roelof Johannes Nelissen (4 April 1931 – 18 July 2019) was a Dutch politician and businessman.
He was a member of the Catholic People's Party (KVP) (now the Christian Democratic Appeal).
He was born in Hoofdplaat, Netherlands.
Nelissen was the Deputy Prime Minister from 1971 to 1973 and Minister of Finance at the same time during the Barend Biesheuvel ministry.
He was the CEO of the AMRO Bank from 1983 to 1991.
Jan Cornelis Terlouw (born 15 November 1931) is a Dutch politician, physicist and writer.
He is a member of the Democrats 66 (D66) party.
Terlouw was born in Kamperveen, Netherlands.
He was the Deputy Prime Minister and at the same time the Minister of Economic Affairs from 1981 to 1982 during the Dries van Agt ministry.
A children's writer, his best known work is Winter in Wartime (Oorlogswinter, 1972).
Ágnes Heller (12 May 1929 – 19 July 2019) was a Hungarian philosopher and educator.
She was a member of the Budapest School philosophical forum in the 1960s.
She later taught political theory for 25 years at the New School for Social Research in New York City.
Masha Gessen (born Maria Alexandrovna Gessen () 13 January 1967) is a Russian-American journalist, author, translator and activist.
She is known for being a very vocal critic of the Russian President Vladimir Putin and American President Donald Trump.
Gessen is openly a lesbian.
Gessen has written columns for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, New Statesman, Granta, Slate, Vanity Fair, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, and U.S. News & World Report.
Since 2017, she has been a staff writer for The New Yorker.
Sheila Dikshit (née Kapoor; (31 March 1938 – 20 July 2019) was an Indian politician.
She was born in Kapurthala, Punjab.
Dikshit was a member of the Indian National Congress.
She was a member of Lok Sabha (1984–1989), Chief Minister of Delhi (1998–2013) and Governor of Kerala (2014).
Official profile, Government of Delhi website
Raghunandan Lal Bhatia (3 July 1921 – 14 May 2021) was an Indian politician.
He was the Governor of Kerala from 23 June 2004 to 10 July 2008 and was the Governor of Bihar from 10 July 2008 to 28 June 2009.
Bhatia was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1972.
Bhatia retired in 2009.
Justice Mandagadde Rama Jois (27 July 1931 – 16 February 2021) was an Indian politician, activist and writer.
He was a member of Rajya Sabha for the Bharatiya Janata Party.
He was the governor of the Jharkhand and Bihar states.
He was Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in 1992.
He was born in Araga, Shivamogga District.
Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna (born 1 May 1932) is an Indian politician.
He was Minister of External Affairs of India from 2009 to October 2012.
He was a member of the Indian Parliament in the Rajya Sabha.
Krishna was the 16th Chief Minister of Karnataka from 1999 to 2004 and the 19th  Governor of Maharashtra from 2004 to 2008.
Senayangba Chubatoshi Jamir (born 17 October 1931) is an Indian politician.
He was the Governor of Odisha from 2013 to 2018.
He was the Chief Minister of Nagaland, Governor of Maharashtra, Governor of Gujarat, Governor of Goa and Governor of Odisha.
Jamir is a member of the Indian National Congress.
He was born in Ungma, Nagaland.
Kateekal Sankaranarayanan (born 15 October 1932) is an Indian politician.
He was the Governor of Maharashtra from 2010 to 2014.
He also was the Governor of Nagaland and Jharkhand.
He is a member of the Indian National Congress.
He was born in Kerala.
Governors of Nagaland
Ram D. Pradhan (27 June 1928 – 31 July 2020) was an Indian politician.
He was an Indian Administrative Service officer.
He was Union Home Secretary and Governor of Arunachal Pradesh during the Rajiv Gandhi government.
He was in service of the government of India for 36 years.
Jagannath Pahadia  (15 January 1932 – 19 May 2021) was an Indian politician.
He was known for being the former leader of the Indian National Congress party.
He was the Governor of Haryana from 2009 to 2014, Governor of Bihar from 1989 to 1990 and the Chief Minister of Rajasthan from 1980 to 1981.
He was born in Rajasthan.
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Axial Age (also Axis Age, from ) is a term invented by German philosopher Karl Jaspers.
It refers to ancient history from between 8th to the 3rd century BCE.
He says that this represents a turning point in human history.
New ways of thinking appeared in Iran, India, China and the Greco-Roman world.
There were new religions and philosophies.
Moreover they happened in parallel across Eurasia, without obvious contact.
History of religion
Attala County is a county found in the U.S. state of Mississippi.
As of the 2010 census, 19,564 people lived there.
Franklin County is a county found in the U.S. state of Mississippi.
As of the 2010 census, 8,118 people lived there.
The county was founded on December 21, 1809 and named for Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.
Jefferson County is a county found in the U.S. state of Mississippi; its western border is formed by the Mississippi River.
As of the 2010 census, 7,726 people lived there.
The county was founded in 1799.
It is named for U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.
In photometry, luminous intensity is a measure of the wavelength-weighted power emitted by a light source in a particular direction per solid angle unit, based on the luminosity function, a standardized model of the sensitivity of the human eye.
The SI unit of luminous intensity is the candela (cd), an SI base unit.
Benton County is a county found in the U.S. state of Mississippi.
As of the 2010 census, 8,729 people lived there.
Bolivar County is a county located on the western border of the U.S. state of Mississippi.
As of the 2010 census, 34,145 people lived there.
It is named in honor of Simón Bolívar, early 19th-century leader of the liberation of many South American colonies from Spain.
Smiths Ferry is a census-designated place (CDP) in Valley County, Idaho, United States.
As of the 2010 census, there were 75 people living there.
Yellow Pine is an unincorporated census-designated place of Valley County in the state of Idaho in the United States.
Garfield is a city in Whitman County, Washington, United States.
The population was 597 at the 2010 census, down from 641 in 2000.
Leakey is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.
It is the county seat of Real County.
Chickasaw County is a county found in the U.S. state of Mississippi.
As of the 2010 census, 17,392 people lived there.
The Japonic languages are a language family made up of languages native to the Japanese islands.
Known members of the language family are Japanese and the Ryukyuan languages (Okinawan, Kunigami, Amami, Miyako, Yaeyama and Yonaguni).
All Japonic languages are agglutinative languages with a simple syllable structure and SOV word order.
They have many similar features, but they are not mutually intelligible, which means native speakers of one language will not understand the other language without already knowing it.
While Japanese is the ninth most spoken language in the world, the Ryukyuan languages are critically endangered, which means there are very few speakers left.
This was largely because of the Japanese government's assimilation of Ryukyu into the mainland Japanese culture.
During the Meiji Era, the Japanese government called the Ryukyuan languages “dialects of Japanese”.
This was used to forbid Ryukyuans from speaking the Ryukyuan languages and to force them to speak Japanese.
In fact, Okinawan soldiers and civilians were put to death for speaking Okinawan during World War II.
The Japanese military would accuse them of being spies so they could have an excuse to put them to death.
All of the languages write using a combination of Chinese characters, called kanji in Japanese, and kana, a Japanese-made syllabic writing system made for writing phonetically.
This was true even before the Japanese takeover of the Ryukyu Kingdom.
Hakuna matata means "no worries" in Swahili, a language of East Africa.
The phrase was used in the Disney movie The Lion King in a song of the same name.
In 2003 Disney trademarked the phrase in the US.
In 2018, some people accused Disney or "colonialism" and "robbery" for stealing the phrase from East Africa.
The phrase is popular in Kenya, one of the countries where it came from.
But because of the trademark, Kenyans are not allowed to sell stuff to the US that use that phrase.
The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula) is a small icterid blackbird.
It is common in eastern North America as a migratory breeding bird.
The Baltimore oriole is the state bird of Maryland.
In astronomy, cosmogony is the study of the origin of things like the universe, the Solar System, or the Earth–Moon system.
The popular cosmological model for the birth of the universe is the Big Bang theory.
Others like Stephen Hawking say "time" did not exist and was only born with the universe.
Hence the universe does not have an origin story.
Time did not exist before the creation of the universe.
There is currently no theoretical model that explains the earliest moments of the universe's existence (during the Planck time).
This is because we lack a testable theory of quantum gravity.
Still, some researchers in string theory, M theory, and loop quantum cosmology have some ideas.
There are certain myths that also propose how the universe was created: for example creation myths in the Bible, the Dào Dé Jīng, and other genesis stories.
These usually involve
a supreme being or god
birth via sex between male and female gods
or birth via the cosmic egg
The Eridu Genesis, written on Sumerian tablets, is one of the oldest creation myths.
The universe was created from a sea (Abzu).
In Greek mythology, Zeus created the universe from chaos.
It is not the same as cosmology
Cosmology studies the universe in general.
You can still study the universe without thinking about its origin, which is what cosmonogy studies specifically.
The history of Russia begins with the East Slavs, Turkic, and the Finno-Ugric peoples.