including a first portion of each of the first and second layers. A second region is disposed laterally and spaced apart from the first region, extends into the first and second layers, and comprising a third material. The composition and/or defect density of the second region is different from a composition and/or defect density of the first region.
One or more of the following features may be included. The third material may be the same as the first semiconductor material or the second semiconductor material. The third material may be different from the first and second semiconductor materials. The third material may include a second portion of each of the first and second layers, the second portions having substantially higher crystalline defect densities than the first portions. A strain-inducingOn July 31, 2013 an authorised officer attempted to arrest a 15-year old girl who was trying to evade a $2.50 fare at Flinders St Station during peak hour. After she hit him in the face the man grabbed her by the lower body and slammed her onto her back onto the ground. For the next 8 1/2 minutes three men sat on top of her. The girl's friend was also pinned against a fence by another officer, who pushed her head down, after she spat at him. The girls were under state care. Charges were laid against the girls. Ombudsman Deborah Glass' report said it was clear that training standards were inadequate and was troubled by the fact previous reports into authorised officers had not improved the


officer in question should be sacked. She labelled the incident "distressing" and has ordered an audit of previous recommendations made by the Ombudsman into authorised officer's behaviour. Public Transport Victoria chief executive Mark Wild admitted the behaviour was unacceptable. "Incidents like this shouldn't happen on the network," Mr Wild said. PTV has accepted the recommendations.

The footage of two teenage girls being restrained grabbed the headlines in 2013, prompting a petition calling for action against the officer – the petition has now received 38,000 signatures. In her interview with the Ombudsman, the girl described feeling like she was "a ball being tackled on the ground that had no feelings." "I couldn't breathe. I couldn't move. I was screaming. I was frightened and it was a traumatic experience." The girlsaid she felt ashamed in herself. "They got away with it and I got in trouble."

The officer said he acted within guidelines and to protect himself. The man said he played rugby for years and had instinctively acted to protect himself. The girl's friend, who tried to help her, was also restrained by another officer – his actions were deemed "rough" by the Ombudsman. She had her head pushed down as she was restrained against a fence. She had spat at the officer. Ms Glass said with all passengers carrying mobile phone cameras it was inevitable that this would not be the last highly publicised allegation of excessive force. "Public Transport Victoria needs to investigate such incidents in a way that commands public confidence. This should include the


Time to Change the Old Tunes

Alistair Darling
Labour MP for Edinburgh South West, former Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the Better Together campaign

There was a historic shift in the independence debate this week - but you might not have noticed it.

The row of the last few days has focused on the gap between what the SNP Government says in public about the affordability of an oil fund and what their economic advisers told them in private. As important as the issues of trust raised by this affair were, the really significant consequence of this week's debate is the SNP's admission that all oil taxes are used to fund current spending.

The modern SNP has been built on the idea that Scotland's oil resources have been misappropriated by Westminster.The symbolic policy which gives life to this argument today is the SNP's suggestion that oil taxes would be paid into an Oil Fund. As the real political debate continues about how best to deal with difficult public finances, the SNP maintain a language of surplus: "oil is not the basis of the Scottish economy," Alex Salmond tells us "it is a bonus."

The fiction of oil surpluses is so central to the nationalist story that they cannot bring themselves to accept the economic realities of Scotland. In a recent radio debate, the SNP Minister for External Affairs, Fiona Hyslop, was confronted with her own Government's figures which show the difference between what Scotland spends and what we raise in taxes (including all our oil revenues) was £7.6billion. She


position than the rest of the UK. But in that private cabinet briefing John Swinney warned that, by the time of independence, "Scotland would have a marginally higher net fiscal deficit than the rest of the UK."

That first leaked paper also exposed the SNP leadership's private worry that the "high level of volatility" in oil revenues created big risks for an independent Scotland. As a separate state, as much as 20% of our taxes would depend on North Sea revenues. Today, as part of the UK, tax-take is less than 2%. This matters because the higher public spending in Scotland, largely accounted for by the public services overseen by the Scottish Parliament, is protected from the fluctuations of the world oil price.

That brings us to the events ofperiod North Sea Oil receipts would have been required to fund public services in Scotland rather than being invested in an oil fund."

Faced with the fact that Scotland's oil taxes are needed to fund Scotland's public services, John Swinney made a decision that alter the terms of the independence debate forever. He made it clear on Good Morning Scotland that he favoured borrowing money to pay into an oil fund.

The confidential papers warned ministers against the strategy. Their analysis was that a fund paid for by borrowing would make a loss because the cost of borrowing would be bigger than the returns from the fund. Rather than saving money for the future, they warned, this would risk actually losing money.

No-wonder Scottish Ministers fought for a year to supress


are sharing footage and shaming women whom they accuse of humiliating themselves or their country by hanging out with foreigners. The commenters seem particularly incensed by a video showing a group of male Brazilian fans encouraging a Russian woman to say a slur for female genitalia on camera. The video went viral several weeks ago and was widely condemned as being unfriendly to women. One of the men has since been fired by his employer in Brazil, media reported.

Meanwhile, online abuse has reached such levels that popular Russian sports blogger Yury Dud called on Russian men to leave women alone in an opinion article last week.

The social media platform Vkontakte has also issued a warning to its users against posting women-unfriendly content, a spokesperson for the social mediacompany told the Vedomosti business daily last week. It gave an especially strong warning to the administrators of one group page, which is named after the derogatory Portuguese term, and several other groups to moderate their comments. The page was created on June 19 and has more than 5,000 followers. It publishes footage and articles of what it considers to be inappropriate behavior by Russian women during the World Cup.


The Shores - Golf & Tennis Community - North Rockwall

The Shores ~ Country Club & Lakeside Living in Rockwall

Homeowners in The Shores on Lake Ray Hubbard, are members of The Shores Country Club. Residents enjoy Social, Tennis and Pool membership, with the option of upgrading to a Golf Membership. Ammenities include a Junior Olympic swimming pool, playground area, tennis courts, fitness center, and dining privileges at the club. The pool overlooks the first hole of the golf course and has views of Lake Ray Hubbard.Kenny Rogers: The Most Valuable Man in Music

If that too, too solid flesh would melt, life insurance actuaries would sleep better. Kenny Rogers is probably, or improbably, the most valuable property and the one Midas amid the recession-ridden world of music. In the past three years he has sold $170 million worth of records. His new hit, Lady, is that exceedingly rare crossover single that has cracked country, pop and soul charts simultaneously. His concerts not only go SRO coast to coast, they break arena records. His first dramatic role, in The Gambler, based on his own ballad, was the highest-rated TV movie of last season. His annual income has been estimated at $15 million. But if he were like the heroes of so many of his songs,


visit and a Hawaiian vacation.

A brief second marriage at 22 was childless. Then in 1963 Kenny wed third wife Margo Gladys Anderson, who had a daughter, Shannon, and bore him young Kenneth. The boy has a genius-level IQ and attends school in Palm Springs, where his mom has resettled. Dad has hardly seen him since 1975, and if he had one wish, Rogers says now, “I would wish desperately that my relationship with Kenny Jr. were better.”

The single-minded drive that has been Rogers’ blessing and curse was nourished in his own Houston youth. His late father, a carpenter and shipyard worker, had a drinking problem, and Kenny, the fourth child, grew up in a federal housing project and rented houses, singing in a glee club and the churchto come over to the house and Kenny would hammer on the guitar and Mickey on the piano. I thought they were going to run me out of the house.” The first member of the family to finish high school (and then two weeks of college), Kenny formed a group called the Scholars, later played jazz clubs with the Bobby Doyle Trio, then moved to folk-pop with the New Christy Minstrels in 1965. He next formed the First Edition, which had a gold LP and a syndicated TV show before its nine-year run ended in 1975. His breakthrough single, Lucille (like most of his material, it was not written by him and doesn’t refer to his mother), followed in 1977, but only after he had hit bottom again


the only United player to reach double figures for the number of touches in the opposition box. For the second game in a row, more than 40% of United’s shots came from outside the penalty area.

A cross can be an incredibly effective tool for creating chances, but only if the strategy is optimised. Rather than two or three players running onto a cross to meet it with head or foot, United use crossing as a weak Plan B. The ball is sent into a penalty area which contains only one attacking player (although Marouane Fellaini joined Ibrahimovic for the last 20 minutes), usually asked to score from standing jump and thus far more unlikely to beat the goalkeeper. It is a low percentage option over which a facade62 forms a seal between the roller accommodating compartment 52 and toner supply compartment 53, when the bottom seal 64 is interposed medially to the bottom of the housing 51 and the bottom exterior surface of the developing roller 55, the side seals 65 and 65 and the side seal members 66 and 66 are interposed medially to the side walls of the housing 51 and both end surfaces of the developing roller 55, and the top seal member 67 is interposed medially to the regulating member 57 and the housing 51.
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stature that really is top-five in the country. He's a smart kid, he wants to do things right. I'm really impressed with the kid.

Is there anything you'd like to see him shore up?

TD: He just needs to play more football. He needs to play more football. He needs to be exposed to more football. He's only been exposed to a very remedial level football at his high school. And that's not his fault, and that's not his coach's fault. High school coaches' jobs are to win games, not have your quarterbacks throw for 4,000 yards. He just needs to be exposed to more football. When he gets to Stanford, I think because of his summer experiences he'll have that recall and I think it will be a fasterPelfrey and Trinity Karting Group to Create Driver Development Program

Team Pelfrey and Trinity Karting Group have joined forces to build a program for karting drivers that will give up and coming kart racers a direct path to the Mazda Road to Indy programs Team Pelfrey participates in with the F1600 Championship Series, Mazda Road to Indy USF2000, Pro Mazda and Indy Lights. This program will help Team Pelfrey recognize their next potential drivers and also help those drivers understand the development it takes to make the next step on the ladder to reaching the top forms of open wheel racing in the USA. This program is not just for the experienced kart racer, there are also programs for drivers that are new to racing from kid karts to


is a secret war just like the war Stalin and Hitler prepared against Poland seventy five years ago.

The Nazi-Soviet Pact

To say that the announcement of the “non-aggression pact” between Nazi Germany and the USSR on August 23 came as a shock to the supporters of Stalinism would be one of the biggest understatements about history. In a single act the USSR had overturned its own policy of “anti-fascism” adopted at the 7th Comintern Congress in 1935. But it had been based on the needs of Russian imperialism. “Anti-fascism” was the slogan to try to win an alliance between the Western democracies and the USSR. It was the slogan which was accepted even by anarchists in the Spanish War – a fact that turned out to be fatal forcounter the Nazi menace. Communist Parties throughout the world were urged to drop their criticism of Social Democracy as “social fascist” and instead join with them, and any other democratic party, however conservative, in a “Popular Front”. Such governments were actually formed in France and Spain in 1936 but Stalin’s purpose was not achieved. The ruling classes of Britain and France refused to join in a pact to counter the Nazi menace. They did not want to unite with a “communist” state and indeed hoped that they could persuade Hitler to attack Russia first.

At Munich in September 1938 Stalin offered to send troops to assist the Czechs but the latter (with British and French support) refused them. Hitler invaded the whole of Czechoslovakia only six months later thus


tearing up the Munich Agreement. This act, which showed that Hitler would stop at nothing to achieve his war of revenge, still did not entirely shift the British and French governments[4]. They began to enter into desultory negotiations with Stalin. But instead of sending a full delegation with diplomatic power to negotiate they sent one military officer each. The British sent a minor but well-monikered aristocrat, Admiral Reginald Ranfurly Plunckett-Ernle-Erle-Drax by boat to Moscow. He and his French military counterpart had no power to agree to anything and had to go and consult their governments every time a proposal was made. The Russians, who knew that any alliance had to be political as well as military, got the message. They had already been negotiating with the German Foreignto the Pact was the wholesale massacre of Poles, both Jew and gentile. Under Nazi racial theory both Jews and Slavs were untermenschen and thus did not count. The Generalplan Ost (Masterplan for the East) essentially called for the extermination, expulsion, Germanisation or enslavement of most or all Slavs living behind the front lines in Europe.

As a result somewhere between 50,000–200,000 Polish children were kidnapped to be Germanised. Poland's 'leadership class', the intelligentsia of about 60,000 Polish nobles, teachers, social workers, priests, judges and political activists were killed by Spring 1940. A further 16,000 were killed in May of that year under what was called Operation Tannenberg.

All Polish land roughly West of the River Bug was incorporated into the Third Reich. This included Pomerelia (or Gdańsk Pomerania), Kujawy,


Greater Poland, Suwałki Region and Eastern Upper Silesia. The rest was put under the General Government, a kind of colonial administration which oversaw, amongst other things, the camp system established there.

"This effort resulted in the forced resettlement of 2 million Poles. Families were forced to travel in the severe winter of 1939–40, leaving behind almost all of their possessions without recompense. As part of Operation Tannenberg alone, 750,000 Polish peasants were forced to leave and their property was given to Germans. A further 330,000 were murdered. Germany eventually planned to move ethnic Poles to Siberia." [6]

And by the end of 1940 Poland had already become the killing ground for Jews, Gypsies, Slavs and other “undesirables” such as political opponents. In the camp system which sprang up all overcame to the Baltic states where 34,250 Latvians, 75,000 Lithuanians and almost 60,000 Estonians were deported or killed. The Winter War of 1939-40 against Finland did not go quite as smoothly as Stalin expected. However, after massive Soviet losses (Khruschev later said they may have been I million), the Finns were eventually forced to cede part of Karelia so that about one eighth of their citizens lost their homes. And finally the USSR compelled Rumania to give up parts of Bessarabia so that a new republic could be founded in Moldova. The Pact in fact allowed Stalin to recover much of the territory of the old Russian Empire lost at the end of the First World War.

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What impact did this piece of imperialist cynicism have on the international


working class? Perhaps not so much. This was after all “midnight in the century”. After the double betrayals of Social Democracy’s support for imperialist war in 1914 and the hopes engendered by the October Revolution this was the low point in class consciousness. Those revolutionary workers who had not been killed (by Social Democrats and reactionaries) in the revolutionary wave between 1917 and 1921 were either murdered by fascism and Stalinism or languishing in their concentration camps. And on top of this, the ideological defeat of the Russian Revolution had further decimated the ranks of those who stood for independent working class revolution. The survivors in the descendants of the German and Italian lefts groped around for explanations. Some found solace in the comforting ideas of council communismwhilst others tried to come to terms with a failed revolution.

And despite Stalinism’s grip, despite the Purges and Show trials, millions still looked to the Soviet Union as “a workers’ state”. For those still following the contortions of the Comintern there was at first a stunned silence. After all the likes of Earl Browder, head of the US Communist Party had said there was as much chance of an agreement between fascism and Stalinism as he had of “becoming head of the US Chamber of Commerce”. There was consternation everywhere. Nowhere more so than in Germany where Stalin callously handed over Communist Party members who had fled the USSR to the Gestapo. 600 German CP members were handed over to the Nazis by Beria at Brest-Litovsk and many


had joined the French Army. He, and many of his comrades, now deserted and fled to Russia! Confused communists were now rounded up in France. In Britain the General Secretary of the CP (Harry Pollitt) and the editor of the Daily Worker (J.R. Campbell were both sacked for opposing this extraordinary volte face). The Comintern too rallied to the new line of “peace” and argued that the Pact was simply to maintain it. Walter Ulbricht, later to become Party boss in the DDR (East Germany) led the ideological charge for peace with an article in Die Welt, the Comintern’s German language paper published in Sweden.

"… the German government declared itself ready for friendly relations with the Soviet Union, whereas the English-French war bloc desires a war against thesocialist Soviet Union. The Soviet people and the working people of Germany have an interest in preventing the English war plan." [9]

All Communist Parties were therefore told to suspend anti-fascist propaganda and oppose the war against Hitler, which they did until June 1941.

You might think that Trotsky would have led the criticism of the new line. After all he had been a supporter of anti-fascist united fronts (as opposed to the wider Popular Fronts of the Stalinists) throughout the 1930s. Only a week after the Russian invasion of Poland Trotsky wrote a lengthy commentary on this new development entitled “The USSR in War”. Faced with the overwhelming evidence that the USSR had joined in the imperialist war on equal terms with the other powers Trotsky basically said nothing


the pact was signed. This even denied that World War Two would break out in 1939. It would not be until 1942 that opposition to both imperialist camps in the shape of a tiny French fraction of the communist left would emerge at around the same time as the Internationalist Communist Party was struggling into clandestine existence but that is another story.[10]

Aftermath

Meanwhile the Nazi-Soviet Pact was to remain in force for almost two years with further deals which allowed the USSR to take Rumanian territory whilst the Germans were fighting in the West. Stalin always knew (it is all over Mein Kampf) that ultimately Hitler’s aim was to attack the USSR. After the signing of the Pact though he was confident that the war in the West wouldafter Hitler broke the Pact on June 22 1941 by invading the USSR he still did not believe it. Indeed he retired incommunicado to his dacha expecting the Politburo to sack him. Instead they waited for orders which did not come for hours and in that time hundreds of thousands more Soviet citizens died. Now for the third time in 2 years members of Communist parties throughout the world had to change tack and the “anti-fascist war” was on again. In Russia though it was another nationalist “great patriotic war” to defend the “Motherland” against the enemy. The first step in the wartime alliance with Western democracy was now taken.

And the significance? Well, there are many in the current anniversary discussions about the First World War who argue


taking Manchuria in 1931, Japan had been waging an undeclared war in the Far East of Russia. One consequence of the Nazi-Soviet Pact was that Stalin, after winning the battles of Khalkhin Gol, was able to sign a peace, which later became a neutrality agreement, with Japan on September 15 which held until August 8 1945. Signing this pact allowed Stalin to invade Poland 2 days later without fear of a threat from the East.

[6] en.wikipedia.org

[7] We are grateful to German and Polish comrades for this information. They refer us to Hans Schaffranek Zwischen NKWD und Gestapo. Die Auslieferung deutscher und österreichischer Antifaschisten aus der Sowjetunion an Nazideutschland 1937–1941, Frankfurt 1990

Hermann Weber: „Weiße Flecken“ – in der Geschichte. Die KPD-Opfer der Stalinschen Säuberungen und Rehabilitierungen, Frankfurt am MainLONDON - A tearful Andy Murray celebrated taking Britain to its first Davis Cup semifinal for more than three decades on Sunday, sealing an emotional 3-1 victory over France to line up a home series against Australia.

LONDON - A day after winning Wimbledon for a ninth Grand Slam title, moving within five of Rafael Nadal's total and putting him more than halfway to Roger Federer's record of 17, Novak Djokovic was asked about the possibility of catching his two rivals.

LONDON - Serena Williams has widened her lead at No. 1 in the WTA rankings with her fourth consecutive Grand Slam title at Wimbledon, now holding more than twice as many points as No. 2 Maria Sharapova.

LONDON - A game away from a third Wimbledon championship and ninth Grand


Q:

How was Edmund Husserl viewed among the mathematical community in the late 19th/early 20th centuries?

How was he viewed. I am interested in what the mathematical community thought of his philosophy of mathematics. What Hilbert thought of him etc. etc.?

A:

Surprisingly little appears to have been written on the purely mathematical reception of Husserl's ideas, so one might surmise that he has not received much official acknowledgement. Richard Tieszen has written numerous papers on Husserl and maths but they are mostly philosophical. There is a 72-page article in French on arxiv
"Husserl, Cantor & Hilbert: La Grande Crise des Fondements Mathematiques du XIXeme Siecle". A popuar story about Husserl and Hilbert is told by Pierre Cassou-Noguès (available at diff. places).
In a nutshell: Husserl in his Philosophy of Arithmetic was critical ofFrege who in turn wrote a negative and influent review. Husserl definitely turned from maths and set theory towards philosophy but he still knew most of the important figures in the maths world and exchanged many letters with them. Cantor is said to have congratulated him for his Habilitationschrift.
Between 1901 and 1913 he was at Gottingen, the department of philosophy housing there the mathematics faculty, that is Hilbert and Klein. Hilbert has had many discussion with Husserl but does not appear to have said anything notable (either good or bad). However many thought Husserl close to Brouwer who was not well seen by mathematicians. The exception is Hermann Weyl who for a few years has been very enthousiastic about both.
From a contemporary standpoint, the most impressive acknowledgement


activists jailed after the Gulf state's Arab spring protests last year.

The Cassation Court decision casts doubts on the verdict issued by the National Safety Court last year, and means that the case will now be heard in a civilian court.

One of the defendants was released from custody after completing his sentence, but the others will remain in prison until the new verdict.

Eight of the men, including Al-Khawaja, who has been on hunger strike for more than 80 days and is in a military hospital now, were sentenced to life imprisonment.

"The Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry emphasised giving defendants a just trial and granting them a retrial is a very positive sign," said Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society secretary-general Faisal Fulad.Englewood residents are on alert after someone broke into several parked vehicles in the South Side neighborhood.

In each incident, someone smashed the window of a parked vehicle and stole property from inside, Chicago police said.

The three thefts happened July 20 in the 5500 block of South Elizabeth Street, July 22 in the 1300 block of West 60th Street and July 30 in the 7000 block of South Eggleston Avenue, police said. All three happened between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m.

Two unknown males were suspected in at least one of the thefts, police said.

Anyone with information about these incidents is asked to call Area South detectives at 312-747-8273.


Albert Hughes Exiting 'Akira' At Warner Bros

EXCLUSIVE: The twists and turns on the Warner Bros adaptation of anime artist Katsuhiro Otomo’s graphic novel Akira continue. Director Albert Hughes is exiting the movie, I’m told. Insiders say that it is an amicable creative differences parting of the ways. Warner Bros will try to put him on another movie right away (Hughes and his brother Allen directed the hit The Book of Eli, and WB topper Jeff Robinov is their former agent and is very close with them). Hughes is coming to Hollywood next week to take meetings with his WME reps and look at scripts, hoping to find his next movie at Warner Bros.

As for Akira, the intention of the studio is to keep the picture on a fasttrack, which means they will find a director quickly. The studio has been wrestling with the approach on the film for the past year. Last March, Warner Bros put together a short list of up-and-coming actors after getting a strong rewrite by Steve Kloves that set the film in a rebuilt New Manhattan, where a leader of a biker gang saves his friend from a medical experiment. At the time, Robert Pattinson, Andrew Garfield and James McAvoy were given the script for the role of Tetsuo, and Garrett Hedlund, Michael Fassbender, Chris Pine, Justin Timberlake and Joaquin Phoenix were courted for Kaneda. The two leads were expected to come from that group of actors. Then, the studio had a change of heart and, given the budget, wanted to


have an established box office star in the movie. That led to a flirtation with Keanu Reeves that ended recently.

Warner Bros is back to the other plan, and will likely go back to that list of actors in hopes of making the picture later this year or early next.

Andrew Lazar is producing with Appian Way’s Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran. Akira has been one of Warner Bros’ high-priority projects since the studio with Legendary Pictures acquired it for a seven-figure sum two years ago from manga publisher Kodansha. The intention has been to make two films, each covering three books in the series. Akira was first adapted for the screen in 1988.Raised body of urn form with drawn and applied moldings at rim above a broad cast and applied running band of lyre design on a matted ground embellished with anthemia and husk tendrils and bordered below with narrow band of cast and applied beading; cast oval wreath-framed plaques applied on opposite sides of body depicting two competing jockeys on horses in full stride in one and two competing centaurs in full stride in the other; large entwined serpent handles cast in sections and attached to opposite sides of body with their heads holding rings supporting cast and applied drapery swags which encircle the body and cradle the pictorial plaques; cast plaques on either side attached between upper and lower handle attachments of the arms of the town of


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The first U.S. location in Berkeley, Calif., opened in December and will soon be joined by restaurants in Hollywood and Las Vegas.

Smoke's also looks to open 150 restaurants in Western Europe, Australia and the Middle East.

While the focus is on Smoke's Poutinerie, the company is also branching out with Smoke's Burritories and Smoke's Weineries. By fall, 15 new Mexican-inspired and 10 hot dog restaurants are expected to open in Canada, joining the first Weinerie in the Halifax community of Dartmouth that opened in December.

Hot dog toppings would include peanut butter, jelly, chipotle pulled pork and garlic chips, while classic burritos would be topped with items like roasted corn, black beans, rice


MANHATTAN -- Kansas State University will celebrate its more than 1,800 international students and the diversity they bring to campus during International Week, April 7-15.

This year's theme is "International Education for Global Inspiration." International Week is an annual universitywide event that focuses specifically on the university's international diversity. In fall 2011 the number of international students grew to 1,856 -- a nearly 40 percent increase from the 2009-2010 academic year. The top five countries represented at the university are China, India, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Kuwait. Additionally, almost 600 American students at the university study abroad each semester, while hundreds of international faculty, scholars and researchers come to the university to study each year, including 350 in 2010-2011.

International Week is sponsored by the university's International Coordinating Council.Activities provide the campus with the opportunity to learn about traditions, activities and favorite foods from countries around the world.

Interest in International Week has been growing along with the diversity of the university, according to Obair Siddiqui, master's student in industrial engineering, Bahrain, and president of the International Coordinating Council

"More and more people in our community are becoming aware of the importance of cultural exchange and understanding, and they are taking steps to understand one another's culture and heritage through the plethora of events we put on throughout the week," Siddiqui said.

International Week events, all free and open to the public, include:

Saturday, April 7

* International Week 2012 will kick off with International Parade and Game Day from 2-6 p.m. on the Bosco Plaza. The event features games from


[Migration, work flexibility and early retirement of nurses in Italy].
Several work organizational changes have been occurring in the health sector in the last years. Workforce is rapidly changing and particularly nurses. In Italy there is a growing shortage of nurses (5,4/1000 inhabitants versus 9,26 in EU25) due mainly to early retirement and insufficient turnover of nurses coming from educational programmes. Work flexibility and facilitation of migration flow of foreigner nurses have been introduced in Italy to face the problem. The present study is aimed at investigating the impact of such a change in the nursing sector in Italy and its possible impact on occupational safety and health. In view of this, the main institutional and category Sources were used. According to IPASVI estimates, the shortage of nurses into protect U.S. credibility in its international agreements. Maybe.

Islamic State Facing Two Fronts in Eastern Bastion

The Islamic State had planned on Deir Ezzor being its last bastion—a remote, economically secure position to which it could fall back as pressure mounted on Raqqa and Mosul. But with the battle for Raqqa still ongoing, the Islamic State is now being pinched deeper in its territory as well. Last week, Hezbollah and Assad regime forces broke through to a regime garrison in Deir Ezzor that had been besieged for three years, and Hezbollah now claims that they control the highway entering the city and are forcing the Islamic State out. The regime offensive coincides with a push towards the city from the east by the U.S.-backed coalition. The Syrian Democratic Forces


(SDF) announced their plan on Saturday and have reached the industrial district on the city’s eastern outskirts. As of Sunday, just 10 miles and the Euphrates River separated regime and SDF forces, with Islamic State-occupied Deir Ezzor in between.

The outcome of the dash for Deir Ezzor will determine the post-Islamic State balance of power in Syria’s oil-rich east. But forcing out the terrorist group presents new problems. The regime and SDF are lurching toward a potential confrontation. Al-Masdar, a regime-friendly media outlet, reports that the Syrian government forces are planning to cross the Euphrates and continue past Deir Ezzor to Albukamal and the Iraqi border. The river marks the de-confliction line that the United States and Russian military officials have used to separate their airstrikes and protect theirMalaria, the leading cause of death among children in Africa, could be eliminated if three-fourths of the population used insecticide-treated bed nets, according to a new study from the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS).

The study, which uses a mathematical model, found that use of insecticide-treated bed nets or ITNs positively affected the infection's reproduction number, or R, which is the primary epidemiological number used to determine the degree which a disease can spread through a population. The model concludes that if 75 percent of the population were to use ITNs, malaria could be eliminated.

The treated mosquito net forms a protective barrier around people sleeping under them. The insecticide not only kills the mosquitoes, which carry the malaria parasite, and other insects, it also repels mosquitoes,


in reducing the transmission of malaria," said Folashade Agusto, the study's lead author and participant in the NIMBioS Investigative Workshop on Malaria Modeling and Control, whose other participants co-authored the study. A former NIMBioS postdoctoral fellow, Agusto is an assistant professor of mathematics at Austin Peay State University.

Malaria has already been eradicated in Europe, North America, the Caribbean, and parts of Asia and South-Central America, and yet, the World Health Organization estimates that every year 250 million people become infected with malaria and nearly one million die.

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More information: Agusto FB, Del Valle SY, Blayneh KW, Ngonghala CN, Goncalves MJ, Li N, Zhao R, Gong H. 2013. The impact of bed-net use on malaria prevalence. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 320: 58-65. Journal information:In June 1999, Jeff Bezos sat down with CNBC to announce a deal between Amazon and Sotheby's to start a collectible bidding site. Within a few years, the failed venture would be seen as one of Amazon's early mistakes as a company.

Amazon wasn't always the e-commerce powerhouse it is today. In its early days, it was best known for being the online rival to bookstores like Barnes & Noble. While the world of online selling grew, Amazon made a deal to compete with bidding sites like eBay.

In 1999, Amazon and Sotheby's struck a deal to sell antiques, collectibles and pieces of art online. Sotheby's and Amazon would create two auction websites, one that would be accessed through Sotheby's and the other that would be accessed through Amazon.

"Both companies


Felgner 2010: 169–174.) Ebbinghaus's book on
Zermelo makes it very clear how embedded Zermelo was in the Hilbert
foundational circle in the early years of the
century.[8]
This is not meant to suggest that Zermelo adopted Hilbert's approach
to the foundations of mathematics in all its aspects. Indeed, Zermelo
developed his own, distinctive approach to foundational matters which
was very different from Hilbert's, something which emerges quite
clearly from his later work. Nevertheless, there are two elements of
Zermelo's procedure which fit very well with Hilbert's foundational
approach in the early part of the century. The first element concerns
what might be called the programmatic element of Hilbert's treatment
of the foundations of mathematics as it emerged in the later 1890s,
and especially with regard to the notion of mathematical
existence. And the second concerns proof analysis, a highly important
part of Hilbert'smove away from the Cantorian
‘choosing’ arguments which almost universally preceded
Zermelo's work, and which postulates that arbitrary
‘choices’ have already been made. This paper produced an
outcry, to which Zermelo responded by producing a new proof
(1908a), which again uses the choice principle, but this time
in a somewhat different form and expressed now explicitly as an
axiom. The first three pages of this paper give the new proof; this
was then followed by seventeen pages which reply in great detail to
many of the objections raised against the first proof. These consisted
in objections to the choice principle itself, and also objections to
the unclarity of the underlying assumptions about, and operation with,
sets used in the proof. This paper was followed just two months later
by Zermelo's official axiomatisation (1908b), an
axiomatisation which to a large degree was prefigured


then later in Gödel's 1944 essay on Russell's
mathematical logic as part of his analysis of the various things which
could be meant by Russell's ambiguously stated Vicious Circle
Principle. (See Gödel 1944: 136, 127–128 of the reprinting
in Gödel 1990. See also Hadamard's letters in Hadamard et
al. 1905.) To support his view, Zermelo points out that impredicative
definitions are taken as standard in established mathematics,
particularly in the way that the least upper bound is defined; witness
the Cauchy proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra. Once again,
Zermelo's reply is coloured by the principle of looking at the actual
practice of mathematics.[27]

As mentioned, Zermelo published a second proof of the WOT,
submitted to Mathematische Annalen just two weeks before the
submission of his ‘official’ axiomatisation, and published
in the same volume as that axiomatisation. This proof is tooZermelo makes use of
the existence of various elementary sets, though he doesn't say
exactly which principles he relies on. In the axiomatisation which
follows two weeks later, Zermelo adopts all these axioms, but adds
clarification about the elementary sets. He also adds the Axiom of Infinity, to
guarantee that there are infinite sets, and the Axiom of
Extensionality, which codifies the assumption that sets are really
determined by their members, and not by the accidental way in which
these members are selected. In addition, as we have noted,
he now calls the Axiom of Choice by this name.

Zermelo's system, although it forms the root of all modern
axiomatisations of set theory, initially faced various
difficulties. These were:

Problems with the Axiom of Choice.

Problem with the formulation of the Separation Axiom.

Problems of ‘completeness’, one of Hilbert's important desiderata on the


a notion
which appears to be a subset of the recursively defined first-order
properties.

Zermelo accepted none of these approaches, for two reasons. First,
he thought that the recursive definitions involved make direct use of
the notion of finite number (a fact pointed out by Weyl 1910), which
it ought to be the business of set theory to explain, not to
presuppose. Secondly, he became aware that using essentially a
first-order notion condemns the axiomatic system to countable models,
the fundamental fact pointed out in Skolem (1923). His own approach
was, first, to give a different kind of axiomatisation (see Zermelo
1929), and then to use (in Zermelo 1930) an essentially second-order
notion in characterising the axiom of
separation.[33]

There were also problems with the completeness of Zermelo's theory,
since there were important theoretical matters with which Zermelo does
not deal, either for wantfound in Mirimanoff's work published in 1917
and 1921 (see Mirimanoff 1917a,b, 1921), though he doesn't take the
final step of identifying the sets he characterises with the ordinals
(for an account of Mirimanoff's work, see Hallett 1984:
273–275). It is also clear that Russell, Grelling and Hessenberg
were close to von Neumann's general set-theoretic definition of
ordinals. But crucially Zermelo himself developed the von Neumann
conception of ordinals in the years 1913–1916, (for a full
account, see Hallett 1984: 277–280 and Ebbinghaus 2007:
133–134). Zermelo's idea was evidently well-known to the
Göttingen mathematicians, and there is an account of it in
Hilbert's lectures ‘Probleme der mathematischen
Logik’ from 1920,
pp. 12–15.[37]

Despite all these anticipations, it is still right to ascribe the
theory to von Neumann. For it was von Neumann who revealed the extent
to which a full theory of the ordinals


of the theory of transfinite
ordinals, and also the axiomatic extension of Zermelo's theory
suggested by Fraenkel and Skolem.

For a summary of the Cantorian theory as it stood in the early
years of the twentieth century, see Young and Young (1906), and the
magisterial Hausdorff (1914); for further reading on the development
of set theory, see the books Ferreiros 1999, Hallett 1984, Hawkins
1970, and Moore 1982. See also the various papers on the history of
set theory by Akihiro Kanamori (especially Kanamori 1996, 1997, 2003,
2004, 2012) and the joint paper with Dreben (Dreben and Kanamori
1997). For the place of set theory in the development of modern logic,
see Mancosu et al., 2009, especially pages 345–352.

For an account of the various axiom systems and the role of the
different axioms, see Fraenkel et al. (1973). For a1891–1933, Berlin: Springer.

–––, 1902, “Grundlagen der Geometrie”. Ausarbeitung by August Adler for lectures in the Sommersemester of 1902 at the Georg-August Universität, Göttingen. Library of the Mathematisches Institut.
Published as Chapter 6 in Hallett and Majer 2004.


"Rick and Morty" has been one of the biggest hits on Adult Swim in a long time. And with that in mind, the network has renewed the series for a second season.

KpopStarz has the news, as well as a potential date when we might see the new season: Winter of 2015. That's a long while from now, but remember that animation usually takes far longer to produce than a show that's shot in live action (except for "South Park," but that one doesn't count.)

They also report that creator Dan Harmon is already working on the next season, claiming that it's "in the works."

As well, Justin Roiland (who plays the sociopathic mad scientist, Rick) spoke to Hitfix about the upcoming second season:

"Last year it was a weird panel becauseThe prevalence of GP Mur and anti-"Mia" in a tertiary hospital in Peninsula Malaysia.
The Mi III phenotype of the Miltenberger subsystem (or GP Mur) is relatively common in Southeast Asia especially along the south-east coast lines of China and Taiwan. The term anti-"Mia" describes antibodies that react with the Mi III phenotype. Since the Peninsula Malaysian population is a multiethnic one with a significant proportion of Chinese, a study was conducted into the prevalence of anti-"Mia" in patients from its 3 major ethnic groups--Chinese, Malays and Indians, as well as the GP Mur phenotype in blood donors (healthy individuals). Blood samples from 33,716 patients (general and antenatal) were screened for anti-"Mia" from January 1999 to December 2000. The investigation for the GP Mur phenotype representing the corresponding sensitizing


I travelled to Indonesia during two consecutive autumns, in 2015 and 2016, invited to be part of a campaign to promote tourism in the country. The objective of the campaign was to show places and destinations different from those already known. In total, I spent a month photographing cities, islands, volcanoes, temples, rice fields and, above all, the daily life of the Indonesians. Without a doubt, being able to be in touch with the local culture was the most rewarding experience of the trip.A Navy captain turned the Pacific into the world’s strangest drag strip — ordering two warships to stage a bizarre race that one sailor said nearly ended in tragedy, a high-ranking military official told The Post yesterday.

“Multiple witnesses interviewed by the [inspector general] and the commanding officers of both ships all stated that the ships were racing,” said Pacific Fleet spokesman Cmdr. Jeff Davis.

Capt. Holly Graf of the 10,000-ton guided missile cruiser Cowpens, the senior officer at the scene, was forced to walk the plank after her high-seas hot-rodding. She was relieved of command after the incident, one of the strangest in naval history.

One sailor who was aboard the Cowpens on Feb. 12, 2009, told the Web site militarycorruption.com, which first reported the incident, that both the cruiser


Tuesday, September 20, 2011

book review; "Scorched Earth" by Fred Wilcox

In the past thirty three years I have read every book published on the tragedy of Agent Orange and dioxin. Beyond a doubt, "Scorched Earth" written by Fred Wilcox is one of the most informative works of truth released on the market. This expose is published by Seven Stories Press and released in September. 2011. For most people, who have little knowledge on the devastating affects on dioxin thanks to the suppression by industry, this book is a valuable work of truth that can be disseminated to the world.

Although I was logically aware of the fact that North Vietnamese were exposed to Agent Orange and dioxin while fighting in the south, the magnitude of the problem is just nowAsthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the lungs where the airways become so obstructed the sufferer struggles to breathe. It's vastly more prevalent in Western societies, and usually develops in childhood. But what do we know about what causes it?

Given asthma is about five times more common in Western societies, this suggests lifestyle plays a major role.

And as it usually develops in childhood, many studies have attempted to look at the events that transpired in infants who did or did not develop asthma by school age.

The immune system

A common finding in those who developed asthma is that they had experienced a severe respiratory viral infection or "viral bronchiolitis" in early life. Other studies have shown respiratory viruses trigger asthma exacerbations or "attacks" in those who already have


International Women's Day (IWD) has been observed since the early 1900's - a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies. The first National Woman's Day was held on February 28, 1909 in New York, organized by…

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The Serial Reader is a participant in the Amazon Service LLC Associate Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide means for sites to earnaround the globe as ridiculous. I would probably have agreed a mere seventy-two hours ago. This week, however, was the week in which the extensive nature of Ken Bates’s delusions came to the fore. He, dictating down to one of the various lackeys who crop up in statements that come out of the club, decided to ban the board of the Leeds United Supporter’s Trust (LUST). Clearly, judging by Ken Bates’ weekly interview that occurred a few days ago, this is in response to a group he knows little and cares little about. It must, therefore, have been as part of a giant cull of fans, because otherwise the event would not have occurred.

In doing this, Ken Bates has managed to galvanize the support base. Ideally, he would


unfolded by the end of the year. Yet Leeds have a set of fans well-adjusted to the notions of a summer of discontent. Last summer alone, Leeds lost several key first team players. It was clear the season was not going to be a positive one. This runs opposed to the very nature of football. Simon Kuper wrote about the almost permanently solvent nature of football clubs in The Blizzard, arguing that football clubs will always exist in one form or another, given the significant demand for them. Leeds fans do not ask for ridiculous debts to be run up, but they do ask for at least some risk, as without this, reward cannot come.

Secondly, as much as Ken Bates seems unwilling to accept this fact, there areVaccines; and has served as a consultant to GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Novartis Vaccines, Sanofi Pasteur, and Pfizer. Financial ties of L.H.H. with industry were terminated before he became a voting member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices in July 2012.

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But to understand Joya's contradictory views, we need to look at how her career began and developed. Let's go back to the constitutional Loya Jerga of 2003 when Joya first became famous. At the time, she was an independent voice and had the audacity to make a relevant, but politically explosive comment. She said that the inclusion of war criminals threatened to undermine the assembly's legitimacy with Afghans risking to miss out of a historical chance for justice. Morally, she was absolutely right; but the truth was that, after two decades of violence, it was inevitable that the leaders that had emerged owed their power to war.

The international community had to work with what was there – and what was there was war leaders with dubious human rightsrecords. To exclude them from the assembly was unreasonable because it would have driven them to start a new war front. Including them in the assembly meant that the Taliban remained the sole insurgents while the former mujahedin stopped fighting and began a new government. It was a morally flawed but pragmatic solution. Joya was driven by a burning desire for justice – pragmatism has never been her strength.

Joya's outspoken comment took the assembly by surprise. It was up to the assembly leader, Sebghatullah Mojaddedi, to diffuse the situation because he was older and more experienced. But Mojaddedi took offence and ordered Joya to leave the assembly. He then changed his mind and struck a gentler note, "Come back, child, you owe us an apology." But it was


too late: the old man had lost the young woman. And with that, Joya lost a chance to fully develop her potential and work on the kind of constructive and reconciliatory politics that Afghanistan needed.

Since then, Joya's career as MP has been marked by repeats of that crucial early scene of her, a young woman, confronting old jihadi men. The location shifted from the Loya Jerga tent to parliament, but Joya and her jihadi nemesis remained stuck in an endless cycle of accusation and counter-accusation. The Afghan audiences found the confrontations first interesting, then amusing and finally lost interest in them altogether. By then, Joya was ousted from parliament, but her career abroad was beginning to flourish. Her book tour of the US is part of this development.

Thetragedy of Joya is that she was spotted by the international media and a clandestine radical leftist Afghan organisation at a time when Afghan democracy was in its infancy. At the time, Afghan human rights groups had not yet developed fully to give Joya the kind of support she needed. Isolated and vulnerable, she became an easy prey and was picked up by a group whose politics were steeped in the anti-imperialist revolutionary world of the 1960s and 70s ideological battles. Joya has served as a respectable front for a group that otherwise has little backing in Afghanistan. Joya's recurrent reference to "warlords in the pay of the US" are all about the group's bitterness that Washington allied itself with the group's Islamists rivals in the 1980s, enabling


them to defeat the left. The alliance was abandoned between 1992 and 2001, but resumed fully with the 2001 intervention. Little wonder, then, that the group felt doubly betrayed by Washington.

This also explained the intensity of the jihadis' reaction to Joya. After all, criticising warlords was nothing unusual by 2007. But Joya was re-opening old wounds. Her repeated reference to the internal wars of the 1990s was the group's message that the jihadi victory was not complete since they had failed to cement it through establishing a solid state.

Needless to say, such nuances have been lost on the western media who presented Joya's provocations as a woman's struggle for rights and democracy. The thought that her disruption of parliament was evidence of an anti-democratic attitude on her partspoken word of Glenn Albrecht from the album Solastalgia and Raffaella Washington.

Glenn Albrecht has situated his concept of solastalgia, or the lived experience of negative environmental change, alongside other ideas that attempt to capture the distinctive forms of grief and mourning that are emerging in the Anthropocene (the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment).

In the first section of this work we are all being stripped naked whilst also riding on other parts of the machinery of capitalism, in this case switching between the roles of excavator operator, television studio audience, television audience and audio-guide learner for the decisions we make for the situations we find ourselves in every day, if we are privileged


TRAIL BLAZERS BREAKING NEWS: PER TEAM SOURCE - MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA

Second year Blazers guard Damian Lillard is a game time decision tonight in Minnesota due to huge extremely swollen balls per team sources. According to Head Coach Terry Stotts, Lillard suffered the injury on a last second game winning shot attempt versus Cleveland last night.

After the play you can see in replays that small forward Nic Batum realizes the extent of Lillard's gigantic balls and can be seen protecting Lillard from his other teammates as they are were celebrating the Blazers 119-116 victory.

Lillard says he originally sustained the injury in his youth growing up in Oakland, California and that the condition has followed him through college and into his NBA career. Team sources said the injury was aggravated onNew Lake George board members assess victory

At a recent press conference held recently beside Lake George, Marisa Muratori, Dennis Dickinson and Dan Hurley — who pulled a political coup in the November elections — talked about their surprise over their hefty vote margins, as well as their plans for the future.
Photo by Thom Randall.

Lake George  Dan Hurley stood on the steel pier off beach road, with the blue waters as a backdrop for a television broadcast recounting election results in Lake George.

Days before, he and two other independent candidates had won seats on the Lake George Town Board, constituting a new majority that overthrew three incumbents with lengthy tenures.

He winced as a television news reporter clipped a microphone on his collar.

“I’m scared to death,” he commented, although


Tech 3 pair review Friday proceedings

Home rider James Toseland and his Monster Yamaha Tech 3 team-mate Colin Edwards have improvements to make on Saturday at Donington.

The biggest weekend of the year for James Toseland sees him fighting for his MotoGP future at the British Grand Prix and the Yorkshireman will be aiming to up the pace on day two at Donington, having lapped 12th on the timesheet on Friday afternoon in mixed conditions. His satellite Yamaha colleague Colin Edwards was just in front of him in eighth.

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The Carpenter Creek Estuaryhas always been a part of the landscape that we now call Kitsap County. Thanks to the visionof a couple of curious & caring founders twenty years ago, the estuary is coming back to life.

Listening to the land reveals in little ways each year the vital role our watershed has to play in the ecosystem, and in the future of our local Kingston community.CERN: TIME LOOP

CERN: TIME LOOP

PROPOSAL: A permanent installation spanning 17 miles, two countries, and 13.8 billion years, Time Loop is a journey back in time, made aboveground along the full footprint of the Large Hadron Collider. Time will be measured out over the distance, to be experienced physically through a 17-mile walk. Starting above the ALICE experiment, which looks at the few seconds after the Big Bang, one could opt to walk off into the present amidst corresponding vegetation (for instance, Ginkgo trees at the 250-million-year mark; a biological clock of sorts), descending back in time through geologic eras, back before life began, before the solar system formed, and on; the journey ending with the Big Bang. Or beginning there. One could set off in the other direction,


among the forlorn Arsenal players looking on and, in considering how and why Lallana has been steadily overtaking his two former Southampton academy team-mates, the lesson for other young players is instructive.

Walcott was in the same Southampton team as Lallana that reached the 2005 FA Youth Cup final. Yet while Walcott was then the most sought after teenage talent in world football and moved to Arsenal the following January, Lallana would simply have settled for a career at Southampton.That led to consternation around the Internet. We contacted Flaming Lips spokesman Andrew Ludwick, who said he "highly doubted" the tweet was for real. Sure enough, minutes later, the band walked it back:

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container, in the direction of the platform, in order to dump the bundles out of the open top of the container and onto the bundle separator. Immediately after the bundles fall onto the bundle separator, the initial separating process begins. After a series of separations along various conveyors, the bundles form a single file for downstream facility use.
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Daphne was inconsolable. She wept and clung to her mother. Elvis sat next to her, licking the tears from her face. Sabrina found herself sobbing as well.

"Today is a dark day for us," Prince Charming said as he stepped before the casket. "We have lost one of our own and one of our most precious. Like many of us, Briar Rose came to America aboard the _New Beginning_ , searching for a new life. She left a family and kingdom behind, but she brought with her two fairy godmothers, Mallobarb and Buzzflower, who have


sorry you and your family can't seem to get out of town," Snow said. "I know how much you would like to leave."

Sabrina nodded. "It's causing a lot of fighting between my mom and dad."

"I've noticed."

"My parents are a little obnoxious, huh?"

Snow laughed.

"They weren't always cranky."

"I know. I met them as a couple before you were born. One look and you could see how much they adored one another. I've only seen one other couple who looked at each other the way they did."

"Oh, who?"

"Charming and me," she said wistfully. "What if I want to fly in a circle?"

"You can explain it to the rug. If you're just cruising along it tries to follow your directions but when things get crazy, like if you're being attacked, it sortlittle dog was yapping in panic. "Are you determined to get us all killed?"

The prince's jaw stiffened but he didn't get to respond. Snow White stepped forward, and there was fire in her eyes.

"Charming has told you the truth!" she said. "You have two choices. Fight or die under the heel of the Master. That's it. There are no other alternatives. Now, I know you wish someone else could do it for you, but that's not going to happen either. So it's time to grow up. You people have received your orders. If I hear another one of you crybabies questioning them, I'm going to make you wish you had died at the marina!"

The crowd grew quiet.

"The fort is not safe tonight," Snow continued. "All of you will


Downey® Africa presents our list of our top recommended villas to book when it comes to an Africa family safari.

Morukuru River House, South Africa

Located in the northern reaches of South Africa, Morukuru River House is situated in a private concession in one of South Africa’s top safari destinations, Madikwe Game Reserve. The diverse reserve covers an area of 75,000 hectares and is home to the Big 5 as well as cheetah, wild dogs and hippos.

Morukuru River House, South Africa.

The diverse reserve covers an area of 75,000 hectares and is home to the Big 5 as well as cheetah, wild dogs and hippos.

Game drives through Madikwe Game Reserve.

Perched on the banks of the Marico River, Morokuru River House is our preferred safari villa for families visiting Madikwe Game Reserveand is the ideal base for a malaria-free safari to South Africa. Close on its heels are the neighbouring villas Morukuru Owner’s House and Morukuru Farm House. The exclusive lodge features 3 air-conditioned, ensuite rooms, each with a private deck overlooking the plains of the reserve, as well as a separate family room that sleeps up to 4 children. The lodge is fully-staffed, including a private chef and childminder as well as an expert tracker and guide for a private safari experience. Spend your days here traversing the Madikwe Game Reserve on exhilarating game drives, guided nature walks and expert lead fishing safaris.

Singita Serengeti House, Tanzania

Home to the annual Great Wildebeest Migration, this fully-staffed family villa allows guests anytime access to one of Africa’s most iconic conservation areas,


is fully serviced with a private chef on hand to create meals for every age. The villa features a private swimming pool, stargazing and sunset tower as well as a private beach sala for alfresco dinners under the stars.

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With direct access to the pristine beaches of this marine reserve, Vamizi Suluwil offers a range of activities for all members of the family. The ultimate island experience, travelers can spend their days lazing on the beach, snorkeling off the coast, exploring the area on guided nature walks and sailing the waters on a traditional sunset dhow cruise. For the little ones, the villa offers a WILDChild programme as well as an entertainment room complete with table tennis, satellite TV and board games and for thenot so little ones, enjoy some downtime at the private spa or request private yoga class in the comfort of your villa.

Kayak along the coastline of Vamiziz Suluwil.

The ultimate island experience, travelers can spend their days lazing on the beach, snorkeling off the coast, exploring the area on guided nature walks and sailing the waters on a traditional sunset dhow cruise.

Elevated above the banks of the Zambezi river, the secluded location of Tongabezi Dog House is our preferred villa to book for families visiting Victoria Falls. The luxury open-plan villa is connected by 3 large wooden decks and sleeps up to 5 guests. Featuring a private plunge pool overlooking the river and an exclusive lounge, bar and dining area, the villa personifies exclusivity. The villa offers a range


Elephant seal crossing road causes North Bay traffic mess

Marine Mammal Center volunteers and the California Highway patrol attempt to corral an elephant seal that attempted to cross Highway 37 in Marin. Marine Mammal Center volunteers and the California Highway patrol attempt to corral an elephant seal that attempted to cross Highway 37 in Marin. Image 1 of / 20 Caption Close Elephant seal crossing road causes North Bay traffic mess 1 / 20 Back to Gallery

Wildlife experts and California Highway Patrol officers teamed up for an unusual rescue in the North Bay on Monday afternoon after a truculent elephant seal tried to cross a highway and resisted efforts to direct it back into the water, officials said.

Just after 1 p.m., the CHP got calls reporting that a sealwas blocking the slow lane of Highway 37 near Sears Point in Sonoma County, officials said.

A few minutes later a caller told the CHP that the seal was attacking a vehicle, though that report could not be confirmed. At one point, passing motorists stopped to take pictures of the seal, further complicating traffic matters on the busy two-lane highway.

The Marine Mammal Center, based in Sausalito, dispatched a rescue team, as did the San Pablo Bay National Marine Sanctuary. The CHP was also working with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to persuade the seal to swim off to greener pastures.

The pinniped, which CHP Officer Andrew Barclay described as a “very large, very determined elephant seal,” was successfully ushered into the bay at one point. But unconvinced that


Hamilton politicians approved three skyline-changing projects this week that will bring four towers and more than 1,000 new residential units to the downtown and west end.

There's a strong correlation between development interest we're seeing and the LRT project. - Jason Thorne , manager of planning and economic development

City councillors granted rezoning for a 30-storey tower at 71 Rebecca St., a future "downtown landmark" that will be one of the tallest buildings in Hamilton. They also approved a 25-storey tower mere blocks away at 49 Walnut St. S., and two connected west-end towers — one 16 storeys, one 18 — for Columbia International College students.

"It was a big day," said Jason Thorne, general manager of planning and economic development, after a six-hour planning meeting Tuesday.

The flurry had some talkingmixed use building with 267 residential units, ground floor commercial space, and parking for 253 vehicles. Right now, there's a two-storey office building and a parking lot there. The project owner is 1970703 Ontario Inc.

71 Rebecca St.

Local architect David Premi is designing the 30-storey tower at 71 Rebecca St. (dpai architecture inc.)

Sonoma Development Group Inc. plans a 30-storey mixed-use tower that some councillors say will be a new downtown landmark.

Designed by architect David Premi, the tower will be at 71 Rebecca St., a former bus terminal currently leased to Urban Core Community Healthcare. The old terminal will be demolished.

The project will be 30 storeys, to a maximum height of 97 metres. Originally, the developer wanted 40 storeys, Farr said, but city staff encouraged Sonoma to reduce that in


light of the new downtown secondary plan. That plan says buildings can't be taller than the Niagara Escarpment.

"The design has very much got the potential of being a landmark downtown," Farr said.

Here's how it will measure up on the city's skyline:The 2000 presidential election was a painful period for American democracy, as voters and candidates wondered whether the electoral system that was supposed to be a model for the world was, in fact, fatally flawed. A protracted recount in Florida left the nation without a clear winner until December, when a Supreme Court ruling stopping the recount made Republican George W. Bush the winner. Foes of the president-elect called the outcome rigged, and said Bush would never be considered a legitimate president. Demonstrations were held to support each side of the conflict. Making matters even more complicated, Democratic pickups in Congress left the GOP with just a three-seat majority in the House, and a 50-50 Senate. Since members of Congress are sworn in before the chief executive and


vice president, Vice President Al Gore – who had lost the presidency to Bush – served as the tie-breaker in the Senate for 17 days. After Bush was inaugurated, technical control of the Senate shifted to the Republicans, since vice president Dick Cheney became the tie-breaker.

There could hardly be, lawmakers and observers said at the time, a more toxic political cocktail for Washington. The nation's decision-makers were being asked to operate with a president whose very election was disputed, an equally divided Senate and narrowly divided House, and a Supreme Court part of the country blamed for handing the election to Bush.

And yet, lawmakers and activists say, that period seems like a kid's touch football game compared to the ultimate fighting championship bout shaping up as President-elect DonaldTrump's administration prepares to take office. The nation is still deeply divided over Trump's stunning victory, while lawmakers on Capitol Hill are suspicious of the kind of relationship they will have with Trump – or indeed, if they will have a functional relationship with him at all. While Congress has tended to be more pragmatic than the public after a fraught election (as they did in 2000), this campaign has brought the culture wars to Capitol Hill, with scores of lawmakers being members of groups Trump insulted during his presidential bid.

"This has all of the potential for being the most divisive presidency in living memory," second perhaps only to the Vietnam era, says Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va. "He got elected ugly," Connolly adds, and the personal nature of


some of Trump's campaign rhetoric crossed a line that is hard to erase post-election. Trump made insulting comments about women, Hispanics, people with disabilities, Muslims and others during his campaign, while earning the support of the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacists.

But once in office, Trump will have to negotiate with an incoming Congress that is the most racially diverse in history, with record numbers of Latinos, African-Americans, Asian-Americans and women of color. The Senate will also have a historic 21 females in its ranks.

"Donald Trump appealed to a white nationalist, xenophobic, Islamophobic, sexist, misogynistic bent of mind," says Rep. Hank Johnson, a Georgia Democrat who is African-American, suggesting Trump should expect a cool reception from those members of Congress from aggrieved groups.

"Some of the things saidduring the campaign were so offensive, so shocking and disappointing, that if there's going to be healing, he's got a lot of make-up work to do," says Rep. James Langevin, a Rhode Island Democrat who is in a wheelchair.

Civil rights group and their allies, too, are wary as they watch a nation that clearly has not healed from the brutal campaign. The Southern Poverty Law Center recently released a report recounting 867 episodes of harassment or abuse of minorities, including children, during the 10 days following Trump's election often by people invoking Trump's name or campaign rhetoric. The report – which SPLC president Richard Cohen said was a "tremendous, tremendous undercount" of bias episodes – includes multiple cases of African-American children being told to sit in the back


of the bus. A Washington teacher reported that children yelled "build a wall" and "if you weren't born here, pack your bags" in the lunchroom and in her classroom. Women reported being sexually harassed by men who threatened – in Trump's own words caught on an "Entertainment Tonight" tape – to grab their crotches. The words "Trump Nation" and "Whites Only" were painted on a church with a large immigrant population, while a gay man reported being pulled from his car by an attacker who said the "president says we can kill all you f------ now."

The group called on Trump to do more to discourage such behavior. Trump, on "60 Minutes," looked into the camera and said "stop" when prompted to denounce such activity. In a later interviewcertainly not going to oppose him on everything simply for the sake of opposing him," Cohen says, but the group will continue to call out Trump and his administration when warranted.

Adds Janet Murguia, president of the National Council of La Raza, "we're also reaching out," but "we want to do both," keeping the incoming administration accountable as well.

But Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, notes that Trump's early appointments – including Stephen Bannon, the founder of Breitbart News, a site proclaimed to be the "platform of the alt-right," a white nationalist movement, as a senior adviser – suggest Trump is not interested in reaching back. And while several groups sent a letter to Trump Nov. 18 asking him to denounce racist and bias-related behavior, "he


has not responded," Weingarten said.

Democratic members of Congress say they are willing to work with Trump on a couple of issues that appeal to them, such as early childhood education and infrastructure building and repair. But the mood on the Hill is far testier than after the 2000 campaign. In 2001 – even before the Sept. 11 attacks that brought in a new bipartisanship in Washington for awhile – Congress and the White House worked on major legislation, even passing the No Child Left Behind Act with Bush, Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and GOP Rep. John Boehner as the chief negotiators.

But Democrats believe they will spend much of their efforts fighting expected cutbacks in some domestic programs and reformations of such Democratic favorites as Medicaid and Medicare.and running shoes for brands including Armour and Reebok. Leslie Wexner, the billionaire founder of L Brands, has increased his fortune 7.7 percent this year to $8.3 billion.

According to a 2006 article in the South China Morning Post, Hung migrated from China’s Fujian Province to Hong Kong with his parents when he was 11. He quit school after junior secondary school and worked at factories before joining a velcro-fastener maker as a salesman, according to that report. Maggie Au, an external media representative for Regina Miracle, confirmed Hung’s ownership in the company, while declining to comment on the billionaire’s fortune. Regina Miracle declined to make the billionaire available for an interview.

Hung first set up the predecessor of Regina Miracle in 1985 as a manufacturer of shoulder pads. As


Members of the notorious MS-13 gang in Los Angeles have been charged in connection with the murders of seven people over the last two years—including the dismemberment of a rival gang member whose heart was cut out, federal authorities allege in a 12-count indictment unsealed Tuesday.

A total of 22 people linked to the Fulton clique, a faction of the gang based in the San Fernando Valley, have been indicted by a grand jury on several charges, including racketeering and murder, for allegedly committing 200 criminal acts in several states over nine years. Of the over two dozen accused gang members, 20 of them have been charged with murder.

While the MS-13 members and associates engaged in common gang behavior—such as narcotics sales, robberies, and extortion schemes—they also used “horrificNational Forest,” prosecutors said.

Formed in the mid-1980s in Los Angeles, MS-13—or Mara Salvatrucha—has a presence in at least 10 states, including New York, and several countries abroad. The epicenter of the transnational organization, prosecutors allege, is in the San Fernando Valley, where El Salvadoran MS-13 members joined with Fulton members to carry out the slayings detailed in the indictment, the court papers allege.

“MS-13 in Los Angeles was distinct from MS-13 cliques in other parts of the country, because in Los Angeles, MS-13 had to pay extortionate rent payments to the Mexican Mafia, to which MS-13 swore fealty,” the indictment states.

During a March 2017 murder detailed in the indictment, several MS-13 members allegedly targeted a “rival gang member,” only identified as “J.S.,” who “crossed out MS-13 graffiti.” After abducting,


and Appellants.

         APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Stuart
M. Rice, Judge. Affirmed as modified.
         Ben-Zvi & Associates and Henry Ben-Zvi for Defendants and Appellants.
         McGarrigle, Kenney & Zampiello, Patrick C. McGarrigle, Michael J. Kenney, for
Plaintiff and Respondent.
                                       __________________________
       Defendants and appellants RPost International Limited (RIL), Zafar Khan and
Terrance Tomkow appeal from a judgment followingto the company. The number of authorized shares was increased
and the founders were issued additional shares to retain the same ownership percentages.
They were also issued additional shares for services rendered and cancellation of loans to
RPost, Inc. That same month, RPost was reorganized as Bermuda corporation RPost
International Limited (RIL). RIL’s directors adopted written resolutions allocating shares
in the new corporation. The founders exchanged their common shares of RPost for
common shares of RIL.
      On January 2, 2001, RIL’s directors cancelled the allotment of shares made in
September 2000. The directors clarified the founders’ allotment of shares of RIL in
exchange for their shares of RPost as follows: 4,822,000 to Tomkow, 3,616,500 to Khan,
and 3,616,500 to Barton. On May 30, 2001, RIL’s directors adopted a resolution issuing
an additional 500,000


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forfeited. [¶] It was FURTHER RESOLVED that management would provide a
proposal on how to dispose of the shares for review by the Board of Directors.”
       On June 8, 2006, Barton filed a new complaint against RIL seeking specific
performance and damages for failure to issue stock certificates. (Barton v. RPost
International Limited (Super. Ct. L.A. County, 2006, No. YC053346.) The complaint
alleged Barton is the registered owner of more than 6,000,000 shares. He had been
requesting RIL issue and deliver stock certificates representing his shares since
September 2004, which RIL refused to do. He sought specific performance ordering RIL
to deliver stock certificates accurately reflecting the number of RIL shares he owned.substantial evidence of the reprehensible nature of defendants’ conduct.
Barton had a serious health incident which forced him to work less. His co-founders

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showed indifference to his health when they engaged in their scheme to force him out of
the company and deny his stock ownership. They took repeated actions to achieve their
goal, from fabricating minutes with his signature, claiming ownership of his shares was
contingent on a law degree, destroying the company’s shareholder registries, transferring
assets to new companies and providing business opportunities to subsidiary companies
that prevented


AdvisorShares Teams Up With Cambria On Active Global ETF (GTAA)

AdvisorShares continues to expand its footprint in the active ETF arena, announcing today the launch of the Cambria Global Tactical ETF (GTAA). The new fund comes out of a partnership with Cambria Investment Management, the firm run by Mebane Faber and Eric Richardson. Faber is perhaps best known for his 2007 paper A Quantitative Approach To Tactical Asset Allocation, in which he presented a quantitative market timing model designed to manage risk in various markets and deliver equity-like returns with bond-like volatility and drawdown. Along with Richardson, Faber co-authored The Ivy Portfolio, an influential book that offers average investors a strategy to mimic the world-beating returns posted by endowments at Harvard and Yale.

Cambria has been managing separate accounts sinceMr Bansal exited Flipkart when Walmart bought controlling stake in it on May 9, 2018.

Sachin Bansal who exited Flipkart with about $1 billion in pocket, has invested Rs 740 crore ($104 million) into Bengaluru-headquartered Chaitanya Rural Intermediation Development Services Private Limited (CRIDS), a non-banking financial company (NBFC).

The former CEO and co-founder of Flipkart will take charge as CEO of the micro-finance company CRID, it said in a statement on Wednesday.

CRIDS was formed in 2012 as an NBFC to serve the rural population of the country in their financial needs.

It provides loans and organises financial literacy campaigns in rural communities in states like Karnataka, Bihar, Jharkhand, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.

CRIDS's co-founders Samit Shetty and Anand Rao will continue in their roles.

"This acquisition is our entry into financial services," Bansal


PGA betting: Sony Open From Hawaii preview and picks

The PGA Tour makes its stop in Honolulu this week for the Sony Open in Hawaii.

While we are just in our second tournament of 2014, we are actually in the eighth tournament of the season with the new wrap around schedule. Zach Johnson shot a final round 66 to win the Hyundai Tournament of Champions by one stroke over Jordan Spieth, his third win worldwide in his last six starts. The tour remains on the island for the second leg of the Hawaii swing with the Sony Open from Waialae Golf Course in Honolulu.

Waialae Country Club is a 7,044-yard, par 70 track that was opened in 1927 as a way to get more tourism to Hawaii and has hosted theHawaii Open since its inception in 1965. While the course is short in length, it get its toughness from very narrow fairways and winds that can be troublesome. The wind was not an issue last year though as rookie Russell Henley won going away as his 256 (-24) broke the tournament record by four shots.

You won't see many big names and you will see a lot of rookies, 24 in all, who will all be out trying to do what Henley did - win in their first start on tour. Of the 30 champions from last season who played last week, only 18 are making the trip from Kapalua, all for various reasons. The biggest being the west coast swing starts next week and flying back after this


event gives little time for prep for the Humana Challenge which involves three courses. Six of the top 25 players in this week's world rankings are in play this week.

Matt Kuchar (+1,400) is one of the favorites and I think he has the best chance over Adam Scott and Zach Johnson. Kuchar finished T6 at Kapalua as a third round 75 did him in but it was a good tuneup for this week. He has been one of the most consistent golfers the last few years and last season was a microcosm of that as he won twice, had eight top tens and didn't miss a cut in 23 starts. He had a T5 here in both 2013 and 2011.

Charles Howell III (+2,000) is still in search ofhis first ever PGA Tour victory and he came close a few times early last year including here. He finished T3 which came after a T2 in 2012 and those two finishes are part of seven career top fives. He was also a runner up in 2007. He has already been busy in the 2014 tour schedule as he has not missed a cut in five starts and has three top sevens to his credit.

Tim Clark (+2,200) has already played in five events with a T2 at The McGladrey Classic showing he is in good form. He is coming off an average 2013 but his track record here is solid with a T12 in 2009, a T25 in 2010 and a T2 in 2011. His best though was


last year with a solo second behind Henley as his final round 63 wasn't good enough. Long known for a short but accurate driver off the tee, it makes sense that he has thrived at Waialae.

Chris Kirk (+2,800) won The McGladrey Classic in November, his second tour win, which got him into the field at the Hyundai last week. He was tied for the lead after the first day but a second round 75 knocked him out of contention. He had a very solid 2013 season with a runner up at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro Am and overall he had 11 top 25's in 24 events with just four missed cuts. Finished T5 here last year.

A longshot won it last year but backing another rookie is not19th century, before inventions of automobiles, streets are very narrow, traffic and parking is a major problem. Paris Metro have 300 km, but it have good coverage only in city proper, most of 10-million area have no metro access. At least Paris is better than London (too sparse) or Rome (insufficient metro).

9th place – Madrid

Most of Spain population lives in apartment buildings, there are a lot of pre-war beautiful buildings, Art Nouveau and Art Deco. Madrid Metro (283 km) have better coverage in a city of 4.5 million people, than Paris Metro. However the apartment buildings are really dense, 10-15 meters distance between facades even in the new neighborhoods, causing lack of green space and parking problems.

8th place – Amsterdam

Most population lives in low-rise apartment buildings and terraced


houses, there is a lot of diversity in architectural styles, this attracts a lot of tourists. Amsterdam is one of the few places in the world where are more bicycles than cars, water is also a common form of transport in city center.

7th place – Brasilia

Brasilia is the biggest masterplanned city of the world. Construction started in 1956, the city was inaugurated in 1960 and is still growing. It is the single city in Brazil where a large proportion of population lives in non-crowded apartment buildings, so it is one of the greenest cities in Latin America.
Was planned with sectors for each type of institutions, and as a “city of cars”, streets being planned in such a way that even traffic lights would not be necessary. Residents needto travel long distance to reach their needs, is not pedestrian-friendly, lack of crosswalks, people risk their lives crossing the north-south highway, so I give it just 7th place.

6th place – Moscow

Entire Moskow city is dominated by massive neighborhoods with huge communist apartment buildings (usually 8-16 storeys and 100-200 meters long, and wide avenues). Minimal distance between buildings is 30 meters, but in most cases is 50-100 meters. Russia capital is one of the greenest cities of the world and parking is not a problem. Moscow Metro is the biggest piece of art of the world, it have 300 km of lines and connects all apartment complexes. But the apartments themselves are small and crap quality, for most people the living conditions are quite bad, so I cannot


give it rank higher than 6th place.

5th place – Shanghai

China is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Shanghai is an ever-changing city and many communist apartment buildings are being demolished and replaced with modern apartment towers. Shanghai Metro is the fastest-growing metro in the world, it opened in 1995 and in 2010 it reached over 400 km of lines, overtaking London and became longest metro in the world. Traffic jams and pollution became a big issue so it occupies only 5th place.

4th place – Stockholm

North Europe is as whole a good place to live, but Sweden have lowest income inequality in the world and Stockholm may have the longest metro (108 km) compared with deserved population. A mix of high-rise and low-rise apartments, landed housesneighborhoods, and (probably) the best public housing programme in Europe, makes the city not too sparse for public transport and not too crowded, also is one of the greenest cities in the world, but for some reasons there are 3 other cities with higher rank…

3rd place – Hong Kong

Hong Kong have the best skyline in the world, impressive aerial views, most vertical city in the world, huge residential skyscrapers but with smallest apartments in the world (average 40-50 sqm). Extensive public housing programme since 1954 helped the city to develop and now is home for half of population. Everything are so close and public transport is good so the cars are useless in central area. Hong Kong is one of the 10 most touristic cities in the world


and also one of the safest cities. Due to big income inequality and many poor people, and the crowded situation may be not a good place to live (unless you are a billionaire to buy a decent size apartment), I give it 3rd place.

2nd place – Seoul

Most people would be surprised that I have included Seoul in this TOP 10, as the city is not very beautiful and the lack of touristic attractions make it unknown for the rest of world… but it is one of the best place to live. South Korea developed quickly into a high-tech country, income inequality is one of the lowest in the world, crimes are also lowest, their population is one of the most civilized and Seoul is also one of thecleanest cities in the world. Centralized economy and mass housing programme appeared in 1960s. Rows of identical buildings are spread all around the city, giving an unpleasant look, but they offer the best apartments in the world (and probably the biggest – existing apartments average 110 sqm, new apartments in 80-200 sqm range), all fitted with high-tech features, and today more than half of population live happy in high-rise apartments. Korea have highest ratio of broadband internet. Seoul Subway have 314 km of lines but is linked with Incheon Subway and Korail sector, totaling 755 km, the longest in the world. Public transport is good, however increased automobile usage since 1990s leaded to pollution and parking is a hell in most residential areas.
There’s some controversy between Hong Kong


of the greenest cities in Asia. Singapore MRT opened in 1987 and reached 142 km of lines in 2007, including LRT lines. Many other lines are under construction or planned. It is the only major city in the world where parking lots exceed number of cars, traffic is incredibly smooth and pollution is incredibly low for a city with 5 million people. Singapore is also 3rd most touristic city in the world, after Paris and London, according Wikipedia.

Possible Questions

– How about New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Vancouver, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Cape Town, Sydney, etc?
All cities from USA, Canada and Australia have large part of population living in landed houses, tall buildings and beautiful skyline are only in downtown, rest of cities arehave the biggest homes in the world.
What is unclear is if these numbers include garage area.

United States, despite of being one of the wealthiest countries of the world, have one of the highest costs of living in the world, big income inequality and a lot of people living under poverty line. Canada may be a little better. Same thing in Australia and New Zeeland.

United States was seen as the most developed country in the world in early 20th century, but today Western Europe and some countries of Asia may have better living conditions.

Downtown of most cities have only office buildings, the population is actually living in suburbs, in low-density housing areas averaging 10 houses per hectare, too low for public transport to be efficient so there is none.


reality only a small area in the downtown have skyscrapers, and the era when United States was the country with most skyscrapers has ended. A lot of high-rise buildings were built since late 19th century. Between 1933 and 1953, in entire world were 19 buildings over 600 feet (183 m), all in US, of which 17 were in New York alone (source). As 2015 in entire world are 218 buildings over 300 meters (including under construction) of which only 30 in US, according my Skyscrapers Database.

What is less known, is that early skyscrapers were not so well received by population and most US cities set height limits to counter the “skyscraper race”, but in New York the law failed to be approved, so taller and taller skyscrapers wereChicago, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, and nearby smaller cities. I am surprised how they are still standing even after 100 years!

Public housing are again common only in New York and Chicago and it is the least successful public housing schemes in the world. Some projects had to be demolished in just 20 years.

Shotgun home was common in New Orleans and other south states from 1830s to 1920s, single-story, 3-4 meters wide and 20+ meters long, having all the rooms in row without hallways. Shotgun homes are often seen in semi-detached form (double-barrel shotgun home).

Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia are almost entirely dominated by townhomes built up to early 20th century. New York and Chicago switched to detached homes earlier.

19th century

19th century was dominated by townhouses with high-pitched roofs. similar with british


in New York there are few ultra-luxury townhomes in Manhattan reaching even 6 floors (or even taller but didn’t saw them yet), including private lift.

Detached houses appeared in some medium-sized cities, most being 18 feet wide on 20 feet lots, leaving just 2 feet (60 cm) space between houses.

Most 1910s houses do not have garage, residents park their cars on roadside. Some do have garages, built later at back side of house, accessible through back lane (if there was enough space in backyard). Some have carpark in front of house.

Some townhomes and semi-detached homes have built-in garages in basement at back side, accessible via a submerged back lane, while the front garden is raised about 1 meter.

Density: 40-50 townhomes per hectare.

1920s

Detached and semi-detached homes became common in Newbe bought with money and are given for free to privileged people only. Thus, good-working people can enjoy higher standard of living compared with people from other countries with similar salary.

At first impression, North Korea looks a developed country, with high literacy rate, beautiful architecture and well-planned cities, but in 1990s after collapse of Soviet Union, the economy felt down making North Korea one of the poorest countries in the world, and the single well educated country suffering by famine. They currently survive only because of foreign food aid. The economy started rising again in 2000s, but unequally between Pyongyang and the rest of country.

The life of ordinary citizens remains a mystery for us, where they live, what they eat, education and medical system, what forms of income