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Nov. 23rd, 2012
Lifted from an OECD document
Nov. 23rd, 2012 10:48 amForeign born as % of the population
*or latest available year
2000 2009*
CHN 0.0 0.1 China
IDN 0.6 0.1 Indonesia
BRA 0.4 0.4 Brazil
IND 0.6 0.4 India
MEX 0.5 0.8 Mexico
CHL 1.2 2.1 Chile
ZAF 2.3 3.7 South Africa
HUN 2.9 4.1 Hungary
FIN 2.6 4.4 Finland
PRT 5.1 6.3 Portugal
CZE 4.2 6.4 Czech Republic
DNK 5.8 7.5 Denmark
RUS 8.1 8.6 Russian Federation
NOR 6.8 10.9 Norway
NLD 10.1 11.1 Netherlands
GBR 7.9 11.3 United Kingdom
FRA 10.1 11.6 France
USA 11.0 12.7 United States
DEU 12.5 12.9 Germany
ESP 4.9 14.3 Spain
SWE 11.3 14.4 Sweden
AUT 10.4 15.5 Austria
EST 18.4 16.6 Estonia
IRL 8.7 17.2 Ireland
CAN 17.4 19.6 Canada
NZL 17.2 22.7 New Zealand
ISR 32.2 26.2 Israel
CHE 21.9 26.3 Switzerland
AUS 23.0 26.5 Australia
LUX 33.2 36.9 Luxembourg
*or latest available year
Nightfall: Cemetery Stop
Nov. 23rd, 2012 05:17 pmCemetery Stop
A jerk-ass, philandering Toronto bus driver whose wife died recently under usual circumstances finds himself unable to deal some unusual passengers on what should be a milk run.
Frankly, I am not really loving this series and may not be up listening to it all in one long go. The problem is many of these tales of terrible fates justly earned are rather similar, perhaps a reflection of the essential limitations of horror and suspense...
A jerk-ass, philandering Toronto bus driver whose wife died recently under usual circumstances finds himself unable to deal some unusual passengers on what should be a milk run.
Frankly, I am not really loving this series and may not be up listening to it all in one long go. The problem is many of these tales of terrible fates justly earned are rather similar, perhaps a reflection of the essential limitations of horror and suspense...
Nightfall: The Fatal Eggs
Nov. 23rd, 2012 11:38 pmThe Fatal Eggs
This is based on a novella by Mikhail Bulgakov, probably better known for The Master and Margarita. In it, a Soviet scientist stumbles over a ray that makes living tissue grow nightmarishly fast. He plans to test it very carefully but alas, the State has need for his device and they rush it into service. Then it gets worse.
As it happens, I encountered this story before in this anthology
in a memorable context. In such matters the official end of things takes hours and since I strongly suspected something was very wrong, I packed a book in case it turned out it was the worst case scenario. This was the book.
This is based on a novella by Mikhail Bulgakov, probably better known for The Master and Margarita. In it, a Soviet scientist stumbles over a ray that makes living tissue grow nightmarishly fast. He plans to test it very carefully but alas, the State has need for his device and they rush it into service. Then it gets worse.
As it happens, I encountered this story before in this anthology
in a memorable context. In such matters the official end of things takes hours and since I strongly suspected something was very wrong, I packed a book in case it turned out it was the worst case scenario. This was the book.