(Tokyo in 2009; click to enlarge.)"Comfort Us Concerning our Work and Toil"
Last night, in a supermarket, a long chunk bread was sold at 200 yen ($2) or so. A transparent package of the bread had letters that read "Parisian."
However, I bought another package with two loavs of bread inside, one of which looked like French bread.
Then the bread, found later at home as having a hard portion, hit my carious tooth.
Yet, after having watched a late-night TV news program, I could peacefully close the day, since I called up samurai spirit...
SECTION I: CALIFORNIA
If you meet four American citizens on the street of California, one of them must be surely a foreign born American.
He may speak English better than you; but he may not know anything about America and the world.
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In 2007, the foreign born represented 27.4 percent of California's total population.
In 2007, 27.4 percent of California's total population were immigrants, compared to 26.2 percent in 2000 and 21.7 percent in 1990.
At the national level, the foreign-born population represented 12.6 percent of the total population in 2007, compared to 11.1 percent in 2000 and 7.9 percent in 1990.
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REGION/COUNTRY OF BIRTH
Total Foreign-Born Population 10,024,352;....100.0%
Northern Europe 164,723;.... 1.6%
(United Kingdom 121,552;.... 1.2 )
Western Europe 162,957;.... 1.6
(France 30,878;.... 0.3)
(Germany 90,336;.... 0.9)
Southern Europe 91,297;.... 0.9
(Italy 34,541;.... 0.3 )
Eastern Europe 245,609;.... 2.5
(Russia 62,394;.... 0.6 )
China, excluding Taiwan 515,128;.... 5.1
Taiwan 164,170;.... 1.6
Japan 117,292;.... 1.2
Korea 322,628;.... 3.2
Philippines 797,452;.... 8.0
Vietnam 441,589;.... 4.4
India 294,202;.... 2.9
Iran 192,202;.... 1.9
Israel 28,482;.... 0.3
Lebanon 36,345;.... 0.4
Other Western Asia 153,682;.... 1.5
Africa 145,335;.... 1.4
Cuba 39,838;.... 0.4
Jamaica 9,661;.... 0.1
Mexico 4,427,671;.... 44.2
El Salvador 428,127;.... 4.3
Brazil 30,162;.... 0.3
Colombia 42,826;.... 0.4
Canada 129,372;.... 1.3%
http://www.migrationinformation.org/DataHub/state.cfm?ID=CA
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California has two big assets: Hollywood and Silicon Valley.
If Washington D.C. should lose its glory and New York should lose its glory, California would be able to still sustain the superpower America.
Now, Governor Mr. Schwarzenegger is tackling a huge deficit of California's state balance. If he succeeds, the U.S. Constitution might be revised, and Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger might be elected as US President in 2012.
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California deficit to hit $41.8B next year
By JUDY LIN, Associated Press Writer
Thursday, December 11, 2008
A spokesman for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says California's budget deficit will hit $41.8 billion through the next fiscal year.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/12/10/state/n115230S67.DTL
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(To be continued...)
(http://www.sedubois.k12.in.us/fphs/music/midi/Superstar.mid
Source: http://www.sedubois.k12.in.us/fphs/music/jcmidi.html)
Gen 5:29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
Gen 5:30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
Gen 5:31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
Gen 5:32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.