Top Cities #27

Top Cities #27.  Influenced by Quality of Life.  See prior list.   Vienna is the top city for quality of life, but there are other factors involved.

1. Singapore [4]

2. Paris [3]

3. London [1]

4. Toronto [9]

5. Tokyo [5]

6. Zurich [11]

7. New York [2]

8. Washington DC [12]

9. Hong Kong [6]

10. Chicago [15]

11. Beijing [7]

12. San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose [17]

13. Los Angeles/Orange County [8]

14. Seoul-Incheon [10]

15. Amsterdam (Randstad) [20]

16. Boston [21]

17. Osaka/Kobe/Kyoto [19]

18. Dubai [13]

19. Shanghai/Suzhou [14]

20. Sydney [25]

21. Moscow [16]

22. Sao Paolo [18]

23. Frankfurt [28]

24. Kuala Lumpur [23]

25. Taipei [24]

26. Bangkok [26]

27. Istanbul [22]

28. Dallas [29]

29. Milan [34]

30. Houston [30]

31. Buenos Aires [35]

32. Mexico City [27]

33. Melbourne [37]

34. Geneva [38]

35. Madrid [36]

36. Guangzhou/Foshan/Dongguan [31]

37. Shenzhen [32]

38. Mumbai [33]

39. Berlin [43]

40. Copenhagen [45]

41. Brussels [41]

42. Montreal [44]

43. Oslo [42]

44. Jakarta [39]

45. Philadelphia [40]

46. Munich [50]

47. Vienna [52]

48. Barcelona [48]

49. Rome [49]

50. Stockholm [54]

51. Tianjin [46]

52. Chongqing [47]

53. Dublin [58]

54. Miami [55]

55. Rhine-Ruhr (Dusseldorf) [60]

56. Delhi [51]

57. Abu Dhabi [56]

58. Cairo [53]

59. Seattle [63]

60. Atlanta [61]

61. Vancouver [new]

62. Johannesburg [57]

63. Adelaide [new]

64. Manila [59]

65. Calgary [new]

66. Helsinki [new]

67. Tehran [62]

68. Auckland [new]

69. Doha (64)

70. Tel Aviv (65)

I'm not sure how many cities should be on here.  At first I was capping it at 30, then 50, then 60.  It seems like Rio should be on here, so I will keep adding until it gets on the list.

DHS HQ fail

The DHS was supposed to have already finished building and renovating its campus on the grounds of former St Elizabeth Hospital.  Now it won't be completed until at least 2026 and may never be completed.

"Inside the GSA, some officials have long been skeptical of the headquarters project — over whether it is necessary and whether enough funding will ever be obtained, according to people familiar with the undertaking."

Some of the problems:

• funding shortfalls, which delay construction and cause costs to rise
• the site is a national historic landmark and will cost millions to restore and renovate
• transportation improvements will cost much more than originally estimated
• there may be thousands of unmarked graves on the site which will require ground-penetrating radar to detect
• extremely high crime rate in the surrounding area

The site was a former insane asylum.  Could it be cursed? "As everyone knows, insane asylums— abandoned ones—are teeming with ghosts, lich kings, necromancers and other undead/ectoplasmic entities, all of which can cross the porous membrane between the corporeal and occult worlds at will. Could some sort of ancient evil buried directly below the site, coursing through the earth’s crust, be affecting construction?"

Here is a House report questioning the project: Reality Check Needed: Rising Costs and Delays in Construction of New DHS Headquarters at St. Elizabeths

Is Alex Israel an actress?

Alex Israel was supposedly a classmate of the infamous Adam Lanza.

Quick question - do the two photos look like the same person?  Yeah, kinda.  You can't blame someone for thinking it is the same person.  Is this person an actress?  Who is it?  I got questions, not answers. 

Update:  See https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-foleys-sister-katie-foley-vs-lanzas-friend-alex-israel-not-the-same-person.4348/

These are 2 different women who look alike.

G37 up 2.5%

G37 as of 8/31/2014
			Shares (M)	Shares (M)	Price	Price	Total (M)	Total (M)
Rank	Symbol	Company	07/31/14	08/31/14	07/31/14	08/31/14	07/31/14	08/31/14
1	AAPL	Apple Inc	5990	5990	95.60	102.50	572,644	613,975
2	XOM	Exxon Mobil	4290	4290	98.94	99.46	424,453	426,683
3	GOOG	Google	676.39	676.39	571.60	571.60	386,625	386,625
4	MSFT	Microsoft	8240	8240	43.19	45.43	355,886	374,343
5	BRK-A	Berkshire Hath	1.6	1.6	191,716.00	205,880.00	306,746	329,408
6	JNJ	Johnson Johnson	2830	2820	100.09	103.73	283,255	292,519
7	RDS-B	Royal Dutch Shell	3160	3170	84.42	84.85	266,767	268,975
8	WFC	Wells Fargo	5250	5220	52.10	51.44	273,525	268,517
9	GE	General Electric	10040	10040	25.64	25.98	257,426	260,839
10	CHL	China Mobile	4060	4060	54.49	62.28	221,229	252,857
11	RHHBY	Roche Holding	6790	6790	36.33	36.51	246,681	247,903
12	NSRGY	Nestle	3190	3190	75.25	77.57	240,048	247,448
13	CVX	Chevron	1900	1900	129.24	129.45	245,556	245,955
14	WMT	Wal-Mart	3230	3230	73.58	75.50	237,663	243,865
15	PG	Proctor Gamble	2710	2710	77.32	83.11	209,537	225,228
16	JPM	JP Morgan Chase	3780	3760	58.91	59.45	222,680	223,532
17	NVS	Novartis	2450	2430	86.94	89.84	213,003	218,311
18	VZ	Verizon	4140	4140	50.42	49.82	208,739	206,255
19	HSBC	HSBC Holdings	3860	3680	54.24	54.06	209,366	198,941
20	FB	Facebook	2570	2570	72.65	74.82	186,711	192,287
21	IBM	IBM	997.59	997.59	194.00	192.30	193,532	191,837
22	PFE	Pfizer	6380	6340	28.70	29.39	183,106	186,333
23	ORCL	Oracle	4460	4460	40.39	41.53	180,139	185,224
24	KO	Coca Cola	4410	4390	39.62	41.72	174,724	183,151
25	BHP	BHP Billiton	2660	2660	71.09	68.63	189,099	182,556
26	T	ATT	5190	5190	36.36	34.96	188,708	181,442
27	TM	Toyota	1580	1580	117.99	114.32	186,424	180,626
28	BUD	Anheuser-Busch	1610	1610	109.68	111.78	176,585	179,966
29	MRK	Merck	2920	2880	58.08	60.11	169,594	173,117
30	INTC	Intel	4950	4950	33.89	34.92	167,756	172,854
31	BAC	Bank of America	10520	10520	15.58	16.09	163,902	169,267
32	GILD	Gilead	1510	1510	91.55	107.56	138,241	162,416
33	AMZN	Amazon	462.04	462.04	312.99	339.04	144,614	156,650
34	C	Citigroup	3030	3030	48.91	51.65	148,197	156,500
35	DIS	Disney	1720	1720	85.88	89.88	147,714	154,594
36	TOT	Total SA	2270	2270	66.63	65.96	151,250	149,729
37	BP	BP plc	3080	3070	49.54	47.84	152,583	146,869
							8,424,706	8,637,593
								102.53%

Compare to the July 31 numbers.  I added Citigroup, Amazon, Disney, Gilead, Roche, China Mobile and Toyota to the previous list to make this 37 stocks.

Update:  I may add even more stocks.  Alibaba will go public in September.  Tencent Holdings (TCEHY) has a market value of nearly $150 billion.  And I may add back Samsung (SSNLF) again.

Brigitte Gabriel on Islam

NYSE margin debt drops slightly

Crazy Microsoft Surface Commercial

It's so atrocious, you can't stop watching.  Like watching a train wreck.  And the product is so bad.

 

How to Dual-Boot Windows 8.1 and Linux

I just discovered something cool -- how to dual-boot Linux -- and want to document it.  It was way way WAY more complicated than it should have been.

1.  You have to learn how to hack into the Windows 8.1 boot process.  If you just restart Windows 8.1, there is no way to interrupt the process with F2 or whatever.  What you have to do is click Win-C to bring up the Charm bar, then click "Change PC Settings", then go to the bottom and click "Update & Recovery", then "Recovery", then "Advanced Startup", then "Troubleshoot", then "UEFI Firmware Settings".  Oh yeah somewhere in this step you have to turn off fast boot.

2. Learn how to change the UEFI (formerly known as BIOS) settings.  Turn off Secure Boot, and change the Boot Mode to "Legacy Support" (instead of UEFI), and the Boot Priority to "UEFI First", and then change the Boot Priority Order so it reads the CD/DVD drive first.  At this point, you have a stable system that run the Windows Boot Manager to load Windows.

3.  Now install Linux.  I'm skipping about 100 steps here but they are documented elsewhere.  Download Linux (I'm using Linux Mint 17, but I think the process is similar for any version) and burn the ISO image to a DVD.  You have to shrink the C drive in Windows to free up about 30 gigs.  Reboot and the Linux install DVD will run. As part of the process, you will create 3 partitions:  root ("/"), home, and swap. Important: on the screen where you create the partitions, it will ask for the device to boot from, and you will probably choose the default, which is "/dev/sda". (Note: as I will explain later, you should have chosen "/dev/sda2").  Towards the end, it will run a process called grub-install, which installs the Grub boot loader.

4.  Now, take a deep breath. You have just installed Linux Mint or whatever.  You can reboot, it will start Grub, and you can start up Linux.  But what happens when you choose Windows 8.1?  You get a bizarre error message.  Congratulations, YOU JUST BROKE WINDOWS.  Now calm down, nothing is lost, all your data is there, you just can't get to it.  How do you fix it?  Well, according to Microsoft, you should insert the first install disk and run troubleshooting.  But what if you don't have an install disk?  Well you can download if from Microsoft if you have the product key.  But what if you don't have the product key?  You should download the Windows 8 Recovery CD from https://neosmart.net/EasyRE/.  It costs $19.75 and it is worth every penny.  (I'm not affiliated with them).  Maybe there is another option, but that is what I did.  This will fix the Windows Boot Manager so you can get into Windows.

5.  But now you are locked out of Linux.  Now you may try to use a program called "EasyBCD", also from NeoSmart, to edit the Windows Boot Manager and add Linux.  But it doesn't work.   You can recover by booting up the Linux install disk as a LiveCD and using "sudo grub-install".  So now you can get back into Linux, but you are locked out of Windows again.  Go back to step 4.

6.  How to you get out of this mess?  EasyBCD doesn't work to edit the Windows Boot Manager to load Linux, and Grub doesn't load Windows.  You need to download a boot manager called Refind, available from http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/.  Download the ISO, burn it to a CD and reboot.  This will bring up a menu letting you choose either Windows or Linux, and both work!  Go into Linux and run the "install.sh" script.  And then you have to copy the "refind_x64.efi" program to "EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi".  Now when you boot up, it will give you a few seconds to select the operating system or it will run Windows by default.  Beautiful.

7.  Some notes.  EFI is a word I had never heard of until yesterday.  It is like another mini-operating system that runs before the main operating system loads.  It has a shell interface that has lots of commands.  On Windows it is installed in a separate partition with about 260 megs, with the label SYSTEM_DRV.  To view it, you have to run a Command window with Admin privileges and do "mountvol S: /S" to mount it to drive S:. Then you can see what is in it.  The bootup file is the aforementioned bootx64.efi.

So there it is.  A technical writer should go through and document it.

SP 2000

The SP 500 finally broke 2,000 yesterday.

The Chinese are taking over Africa

See: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-mass-immigration-of-chinese-people-into-africa-is-almost-entirely-driven-by-money-2014-8

What is tantalisingly unclear is whether the Chinese economic onslaught is the result of a methodical policy fashioned in Beijing as part of an imperialist venture to promote "Chinese values" and dominate the continent as Europeans did a century ago, or whether it has become a self-generating process fired up by individual Chinese who are simply keen to enrich themselves without the slightest intention of kowtowing to the authorities back home.

The conversations recorded by Mr French in a dozen of sub-Saharan Africa's 48 countries leave an impression that strongly supports the second thesis. Indeed, many of the Chinese in Africa excoriate the Communist Party back home and have dared to start new lives far away precisely to breathe fresher air--much as pioneers from Europe did when heading to the new world or to the dark continent. Many cite the Chinese ruling party's corruption as a spur for seeking a freer climate elsewhere and even say that Africa is a lot less corrupt by comparison.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-mass-immigration-of-chinese-people-into-africa-is-almost-entirely-driven-by-money-2014-8

Is the US blaming Russia because of a Youtube video?

Мари Харф

Isn't John Kerry staying at a hotel owned by terrorists in Burma doing business with terrorists?

"We've been very clear how strongly we feel about the values that underpin our sanctions towards Burma.  They were raised repeatedly with Burmese officials, the notion that we need to take steps to reform, because eventually obviously we want them to take steps so we can remove sanctions. And they have made some progress.  This in no way changes how deeply we care about the things that made these sanctions needed in the first place. And I don't think staying at a hotel, that itself is not sanctioned in any way changes that.  I really don't."

"Because when the Secretary of State and President Obama sit in Burma with Burmese leaders directly to their face and say 'You need to do more to reform' I think that makes the case much more clearly than where the Secretary sleeps when he arrives there."

"But when he stays at the hotel after that meetings, it sort of sends a 'wink-wink' to that -- not at all -- government that yeah -- not at all -- well -- not at all. We can agree to disagree on this, Eloise, and I think we have probably exhausted this topic."

NOTE: The President was not in Burma on the trip. He is mentioned by Harf only as a way of shutting down the discussion.

See also: John Kerry checks into hotel in Burma that is blacklisted by US government.

Did ISIS go from jayvee in January to varsity in June?

"I think we have been very clear if you go back and look at everything we have said about this group for many months uh from the President on down that we believe this is a serious threat".

Is Missouri like Afghanistan or not?

"Well I think when you hear the President of the United States stand up and say uh we need get the facts about what happened here, journalists should be able to do their jobs. We've all been very clear about that, whether uh it's in Missouri or in Afghanistan."

How to answer a tough question.  First, say that we have been very clear, and second, mention the President.

It's either transparent or its opaque, right?

"Matt, no, it's not a black and white issue.  That's absolutely not the case."

If a scheduled meeting hasn't been cancelled, then it has taken place, right?

Is this a Saturday Night Live skit?

More Marie Harf

More classic Harf.  UNWRA discovers missiles in a Gaza school, and calls the local police, who give the missiles back to Hamas.  Harf defends UNWRA's actions.

Jump to 2:04.  Haughty responses and sarcasm in italics.
=============================================
Reporter:  But can you see to uh an outside observer how this sounds a little bit, this sounds a bit bizarre?

Harf: Well maybe to an outside observer who doesn't have all the facts or understand the details here. But, uh, I think I just laid out for you that we don't believe that this is an acceptable outcome. That UNWRA is operating in a very difficult situation, and there weren't a lot of good options here, and we are working with them to try to figure out a better uh outcome in the future.

Reporter:  Right. But um the facts are pretty clear. UNWRA discovers missiles .. rockets in its school. It informs .. condemns it and informs the UN obviously and hands them back over to the people who are shooting them into Israel.

Harf: Well, let's not make sweeping generalizations.  They .. they've told us that they gave them to the local police.

Reporter: But the local police in Gaza are Hamas.

Harf: Ok, well, Matt, I'm sure UNWRA can provide more details about who specifically they gave them back to, but I would be careful about making sweeping generalizations, and I would check with them about who specifically they were given to.

Reporter: Ok, well, if say that it was unacceptable then I'm assuming that it .. it was uh unacceptable. But anyway you ended up still ---

Harf: I do tend to mean what I say yes.

Reporter: Exactly. You say it's unacceptable but you won't say why its unacceptable. Right?

Harf: I don't have more for you this second.

Reporter: But then you go ahead and announce the fifteen million dollars to this very organization.

Harf: Because it's an important organization.

Reporter: I understand.

Harf: Those two things aren't mutually exclusive.

Reporter: So maybe the question is this, what would have been an acceptable outcome in this situation.

Harf: Well, I'm not going to outline specifically what that would have looked like.  We're looking at what acceptable outcomes might look like in the future. I don't have details.

ISIL is not at war against America and does not represent any religion

Marie Harf, the brains behind the administration. Jump to 1:10.

Reporter:  But they are announcing that it's a war against America. Right or wrong, that's ... that's what they are saying.
Harf: Well, they can say whatever they like, but what I am making clear is that's not what ISIL represents. And they don't represent any religion. Uh, they are at war with everybody they come into contact with. And that's why we are very focused. Uh, when we, uh, outline goals. On .. on attacking their targets when they threaten those goals. On helping the Iraqis gain a capability to fight this threat on their own.  And to be very clear, uh, holding people accountable when they hurt our people. That's something we are very focused on, uh and that's certainly what will be a guiding principle of our action going forward.

Is Dublin the new London?

"It is May who has summoned the internet giant Yahoo for an urgent meeting to raise security concerns after the company announced plans to move to Dublin where it is beyond the reach of Britain’s surveillance laws. Yahoo is moving to Dublin exiting London as its center for European, Middle East and Africa operations. In Dublin, Yahoo cannot be forced to hand over information demanded by Scotland Yard and the intelligence agencies through “warrants” issued under Britain’s controversial anti-terror laws."
http://armstrongeconomics.com/2014/08/

"Wall Street banks are drawing up preliminary plans to move some London-based activities to Ireland to address concerns that the UK is drifting apart from the EU.

People familiar with Bank of America, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley said that they considered Ireland a favourable location for some of their European business if they needed to move them out of the UK. One said he was already planning to move some activities to Ireland."  http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/financial-services/us-banks-draw-up-early-plans-for-move-to-ireland-if-uk-leaves-eu-1.1899739

The Death of Money

One of the most interesting points he makes is about the IMF. Jump to 8:35.  He talks about the IMF printing SDRs to bail out the dollar.

See also: http://dailyreckoning.com/one-world-one-bank-one-currency/

"A 42-page IMF paper published in January 2011 with the innocuous-sounding title “Enhancing International Monetary Stability — A Role for the SDR?” — lays out what Rickards describes. “A multiyear, multistep plan to position the SDR as the leading global reserve asset. The study recommends increasing the SDR supply to make them liquid and more attractive to potential private-sector market participants such as Goldman Sachs and Citigroup… The IMF study recommends that the SDR bond market replicate the infrastructure of the U.S. Treasury market, with hedging, financing, settlement and clearance mechanisms substantially similar to those used to support trading in Treasury securities today. ... “The SDR can be issued in abundance to IMF members and can also be used in the future for a select list of the most important transactions in the world, including balance-of-payments settlements, oil pricing and the financial accounts of the world’s largest corporations, such as Exxon Mobil, Toyota and Royal Dutch Shell.”

The Purge

When Zombies Attack

Counter-Zombie Dominance Operations

Source: http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2014/images/05/16/dod.zombie.apocalypse.plan.pdf

See also: http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/controversies/FOIA16-041.pdf

Silver nanoparticles

Can Nano-Silver stop Ebola?

See: http://investmentwatchblog.com/fda-says-ebola-treatment-nano-silver-is-a-pesticide-3000-ebola-martyrs-in-us-obola-cuts-vacation-short/

http://www.naturalnews.com/046490_Ebola_virus_bogus_cures_FDA_warning.html

The FDA hates it, but I think they should give it a try.
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Update: See a letter about nano-silver.

"A drug, called “Nanosilver” an  experimental drug for treatment of Ebola,  will arrive the country today, health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu, has said. Meanwhile, it was gathered that Dr  (Mrs) Rima E. Laibow, the medical doctor behind ‘Nano Silver’  has written an open letter to President Goodluck Jonathan over the availability of the ‘cure’.  The drug, called “Nanosilver”, can now be used following the approval by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that experimental treatments are ethical in the case of the Ebola pandemic.  According to Chukwu, the experimental drug is a donation from a Nigerian scientist who was concerned about threat of Ebola in his home country. “The drug will reach Nigeria today,” he said. Chukwu disclosed that the 169 secondary contacts were still under surveillance, while in all Ebola 11 cases had been recorded, including the index case, Patrick Sawyer, and the two Nigerians who died of the disease. “

According to the founder of Nanosilver “through the use of small doses (½ teaspoonful three times per day) of 10 PPM Nano silver administered to Ebola victims, contacts and potential contacts, Ebola and other contagious diseases can be eliminated as the deadly scourges that they currently are. This potentially beneficial nutrient therapy is highly cost-effective. Nano Silver is inexpensive”.

The problem with colloidal silver is that too much of it can cause Agyria, or grey skin. "Chronic ingestion or inhalation of silver preparations (especially colloidal silver) can lead to argyria in the skin and other organs. This is not life-threatening but commonly is cosmetically undesirable."

So if your choice is to ingest something which can stop Ebola, but as a side effect will turn your skin grey or blue and turn you into a Smurf but will not otherwise harm you, what do you choose?  What about for black people whose skin is already dark? Do you make that decision for them, or let them choose?

Smurf man Paul Karason

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Update2: Here is an unclassified powerpoint presentation about "Silver nanoparticle neutralization of hemmorhagic fever viruses".

Meet the Natives

What happens when 5 amateur "anthropologists" from Vanuatu visit the UK and see their hero, Prince Philip?

Is Prince Philip the Messiah?

"It seemed that in the archipelago of Vanuatu (previously an Anglo-French colony called the New Hebrides), there was one village whose people had identified Prince Philip as a long-departed mountain god of theirs during visits he made to the islands, first on his own in 1971 and then with the Queen in 1974."

http://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/439264/The-Tribe-that-worships-Prince-Philip

"That's really how they worship Prince Philip: by talking softly about him around their smoky fires, over swigs of kava as the sun goes down. They tell stories of his "exploits": that he was a captain of a warship, a cowboy, a great sorcerer who seduced a white queen. They link world events to the doings of their mountain god. To give a recent example they say that Philip ensured that a black man became the leader of the US and used his magic to help him find Osama bin Laden."

See also:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip_Movement

http://contributemagazine.com/2011/08/15/the-village-where-prince-philip-is-a-god/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1300939/British-student-stands-Prince-Philip-ceremony-island-duke-living-God.html

Kingdom Tower, Jeddah

Disfrute engañarte

 Don't let your mistress find your gun ... or she will shoot your wife.

Amazon is evil

Amazon has been in business for about 20 years, and during this time it has made little or no profits.  Furthermore, there are no prospects for it ever making profits.  So why is it valued at over $140 billion?  Who knows.  But more important is its reasons for eschewing profits - because it wants to bankrupt rival companies, which include mom-and-pop local businesses.  And it is not relying on low prices alone, instead it is acting like a bully.  In the book publishing business it is telling authors that it will dramatically lower the amount of royalties it is paying.  More ...

The Truth Behind Amazon's Success? It's Kinda Evil. Amazon.com is responsible for a third of online sales, and that number is on the rise. It has become this colossal through unfair business and labor practices that are getting worse every day.

Be My Baby

DUI in Mexico

What is the penalty for DUI in Mexico?  I don't have any official information, but this is my understanding.  First, for commercial drivers (taxi, bus, etc), there is zero tolerance.  I don't know the penalty, but they will probably lose their license and be fired.  Second, for most of the natives in Mexico, the penalty for a DUI is a $20 fine/bribe paid to the police and overnight in jail if they are too drunk.  Third, for American tourists, if they are too drunk to drive, the policia will take you to jail and let you out the next day with a fine of $40 to $100.  If they are not too drunk, the fine/bribe will be $20 to the police.  Fourth, some resort cities have their own laws which are "stricter".  In Cabo San Lucas, the police have portable breathalyzers.  If the driver is in the range of 0.08 to 0.19, the fine is $125 with no loss of license.  In the range is 0.20 to 0.39, the fine is $250 also no loss of license.  It is only when the BAC is over 0.40 that the penalty becomes more "serious".  Then the fine will be $500.  And you can still get your license back, once you sober up.  Source.

High Speed Rail in the KSA

Jazan Economic City

Pleasant music, nice use of circles.

Top Cities #26

Top Cities #26.  Influenced by https://www.cscollege.gov.sg/Knowledge/Documents/eBooks/The%20Changing%20Face%20of%20the%20Global%20City.pdf
See prior list.

1. London (3)
2. New York (2)
3. Paris (6)
4. Singapore (8)
5. Tokyo (1)
6. Hong Kong (7)
7. Beijing (4)
8. Los Angeles/Orange County (10)
9. Toronto (13)
10. Seoul-Incheon (5)
11. Zurich (16)
12. Washington/Baltimore (15)
13. Dubai (18)
14. Shanghai-Suzhou (9)
15. Chicago (12)
16. Moscow (11)
17. San Francisco/San Jose (21)
18. Sao Paolo (20)
19. Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto (14) 
20. Amsterdam (Randstad) (25)
21. Boston (24)
22. Istanbul (17) 
23. Kuala Lumpur (28) 
24. Taipei (19)
25. Sydney (29)
26. Bangkok (23)
27. Mexico City (22)
28. Frankfurt (33)
29. Dallas (32)
30. Houston (35)
31. Guangzhou/Foshan/Dongguan (26)
32. Shenzhen (27)
33. Mumbai (31)
34. Milan (36)
35. Buenos Aires (30)
36. Madrid (39)
37. Melbourne (41)
38. Geneva (40)
39. Jakarta (34)
40. Philadelphia (38)
41. Brussels (46)
42. Oslo (37)
43. Berlin (48)
44. Montreal (43)
45. Copenhagen (42)
46. Tianjin (44)
47. Chongqing (45)
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