The Knavses took an oath of citizenship in August 2018 after appearing at the federal immigration offices in New York City. Prior to that time, Melania's parents had been permanent U.S. residents living in the country with green cards.
Barron is very close to grandparents, with whom he reportedly speaks Slovenian, and Politico described them as "hyperinvolved" in his life. Politico also reported in 2017 that Melania's parents would "become more familiar figures around the White House"—much the way Michelle Obama's mother Marian Robinson did when she moved into the presidential mansion. According to The New York Times, the Knavs "split their time among an apartment in Trump Tower, Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida and the suite in the White House once used by Mrs. Obama’s mother."
Viktor and Amalija Knavs are pictured far left with the rest of the Trump family on stage at the Republican National Convention;
They regularly travel with the first family.
Amalija and Viktor, pictured here, disembark Marine One with President Trump, Melania, and Barron at the White House.
They were at the National Thanksgiving Turkey Pardoning Ceremony in the Rose Garden on November 21, 2017. They traveled to Mar-a-Lago with the first family to celebrating Thanksgiving, too. They live part-time in the White House.
Prior to their Washington, D.C. move, the Knavs family were close to the rest of the Trump family—a pattern they've followed since their daughter married Donald Trump. They reportedly lived in Trump Tower in Manhattan, and are frequent fixtures at Mar-a-Lago, a member of the club explained.
The first lady was born in Sevnica, a small town with about 5,000 residents that's an hour's drive from Ljubljana, the Slovenian capital. During Melania's childhood, Slovenia was known as Yugoslavia and was under the rule of Communist President Josip Tito. The Knavses reportedly "still own their house in Sevnica;
on the July 2002 trip, the couple landed on Trump's Boeing 727 in Ljubljana at 8 p.m. and they drove to dinner with the Knavses at the Grand Hotel Toplice on Lake Bled, where they ate onion escalope with pan-fried potatoes, and forest blueberries, and Melania interpreted. On the way out, Trump reportedly asked Viktor, "Is this place for sale?" The mogul was "back at the airport before midnight."
They maintain close ties to Sevnica, their hometown in Slovenia.
They maintain close ties to Sevnica, their hometown in Slovenia.
Viktor and Amalija met in Sevnica in 1966.
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Anwar’s Bukit Segambut bungalow selling for RM12 million
PKR president Anwar Ibrahim has put his bungalow home in Bukit Segambut, Kampung Segambut Dalam in Kuala Lumpur up for sale at an asking price of RM12 million.
It is understood that the original selling price for the house was RM15 million. However, this was reduced to RM12 million on Mudah.my today.
Sources told MalaysiaNow that the house was put up for sale after the Port Dickson MP moved to his new home in Sungai Long, Kajang, Selangor, about a year ago.
Anwar’s home in Bukit Segambut has changed hands several times already from its first owner, one Fauziah, on Oct 11, 1979 to the second, Tan Chong, on Nov 6, 1997.
On Aug 5, 2005, it was transferred to Anwar’s name, not long after he was freed from prison in 2004.
Before moving to Bukit Segambut, Anwar had stayed in Bukit Damansara, Kuala Lumpur.
On March 7, 2019, the opposition leader declared his total asset worth at RM10.74 million.
The declaration of assets was submitted to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission as requested by the government for all Pakatan Harapan MPs and representatives.
The property worth included the estimated current value of his home in Bukit Segambut of RM9.5 million. It was originally bought for RM4.5 million from the proceeds of the sale of his Bukit Damansara home.
Anwar also declared a plot of land in Permatang Habib, Mukim Penor, Kuantan, Pahang, bought in 1974 for RM7,000.
About Kit Fai Chong
This is Kit Fai Chong, people in the parish call me Augustine. Now aging to 70, I am interested in writing and painting. I am living with my wife in Richmond Hill in Ontario, Canada. This is my 21 years' living in Canada since my immigration in 1993 from Hong Kong, where I was born and got my second degree. My first degree was gotten in 1973 in Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois.
My early part of life was trained in business education, however, my career job in Hong Kong, as well as that in Canada was in education. I worked as a teacher up to 2011 and retired in the same year. My inclination for painting was discovered as early as 10 year old in the school where the teacher in the art class circulated my work around the class for reference to other students. My interest for art and painting was fully buried for forty or so years owing to full commitment of my career job. It was until 2011 I picked it up again. To my surprise, I found my skill for oil painting was fast developing without aid from teachers. I like to look at nature, the sky, the sea and landscape where I can obtain unlimited ideas for drawing, mainly to put the natural beauty onto the canvas.
I like to write too, the first book is about my life ( The Era of a Great Age ), and the other book is politic/religion about the people in China
( A Nation Living In Custody ). The second book is a severe critic to the life of all Chinese in China from a religious point of view since God's creation. They were written in Chinese, however, I like to share my points of view with people of political/religious concern.
Kit Fai Chong joined Fine Art America on December 3rd, 2014.
普丁私生女豪宅位置曝光！全因外送資料庫遭駭
烏克蘭、俄羅斯戰爭爆發超過1個月，引起國際社會高度關注，西方各國對於俄羅斯的制裁持續擴大，這股反戰怒火也牽連到被傳出是普丁私生女的羅佐娃（Luiza Rozova），在IG上擁有8.4萬粉絲追蹤的她，日前才被網友灌爆不得不關閉帳號，最近更有英媒爆出她位在聖彼得堡的豪宅，因為外送資料庫遭駭客入侵而曝光的消息。
18歲的羅佐娃過去就曾被爆料，是俄羅斯總統普丁與45歲情人Svetlana Krivonogikh的私生女，早在戰爭之前，她的身世就屢屢引起外界議論，隨著烏俄戰爭爆發，她經營的IG帳號也被憤怒的網友灌爆，逼得她不得不暫時關閉帳號避風頭。
根據英媒《每日郵報》報導，羅佐娃目前被爆出與母親Svetlana Krivonogikh住在聖彼得堡一處豪宅，曝光原因竟然是因為外送資料庫遭駭客入侵，才讓兩人的住處曝光，報導指出，兩人住在聖彼得堡Fontanka76街區一處占地4306平方英尺的豪華公寓，由德國建築公司Engel& Voelkers所建造。
人生馬拉松
胡宏俊，不是大編輯胡錫進，也不是大明星王力宏。這個胡宏俊，只是一個小小天氣先生，在新聞報道之後，出來講分半鐘天氣，而大家的注意力，一般在明天會不會下雨，或者颱風幾時臨近。
如果，不是報章報道這個人，絕對沒人會留意，他就是公務員事務局長聶德權口中，一百二十九個拒簽宣誓效忠聲明的公務員之一，他更在簽署聲明期限的最後一天遞上辭職信，然後舉家移民英國。
這個「天氣先生」，畢業於中大物理系，當過三年政府行政主任（EO），之後加入香港天文台當科學主任，一做二十年，這個職級的頂薪是十一萬。
他接受訪問說，現時在英國過着半退休生活，每朝六點起牀，開車載十三歲女兒返學放學，照顧家中七十多歲的父母，上月起開設頻道，用廣東話報道每日英國天氣。
四十來歲人，上有高堂、下有小女，半年找不到工作食穀種，竟然形容這種生活叫「半退休」，連人生狀況都定義不了，旨意你跟大家剖析氣候？
早前有個TVB新聞主播王俊彥也和太太移民英國，找不到工作後，也在那邊開了個網上新聞頻道，自己在家掛幅英國旗作攝影棚報告新聞。
貝聿銘百年人生 他給三個兒子取名都含「中」字
【文匯網訊】當地時間2019年5月16日，華人建築大師貝聿銘去世，享年102歲。但貝聿銘的心中始終懷念着故土，貝聿銘的長子名為貝定中、次子貝建中和三子貝禮中，貝建中曾在一次接受採訪時說：「父親給我們取的名字都很中國」，不過幾個孩子中，只有外形最酷似父親的貝建中可以說中文。
據北京頭條報道，此時距離他當初最受爭議、又是最成功的盧浮宮玻璃金字塔落成，幾乎整整30年。
時間倒回至102年前，貝聿銘出生於廣東，但他的家庭屬於蘇州的一個傳統望族，如今已是世界文化遺產的蘇州著名景點獅子林，就曾是貝聿銘叔公、上海顏料巨商貝潤生的家宅。
貝聿銘在晚年回憶起小時候回到故鄉，和同堂兄弟在獅子林玩耍的情景時說：「整個園林都是供我們玩耍的好地方。假山中的山洞、石橋、池塘和瀑布都會勾起我們無限幻想。中國園林和法國園林正相反，蘇州園林是為文人墨客而設計，非為皇家而建。獅子林是一個道教僧人於14世紀開始建造的，因石而著名。園中山石外形酷似杜布菲（Dubuffet）的雕塑作品。這些石頭的加工製作尤其有趣，並且反映了我們對時間和家庭關係的理解。園中石頭大都是多孔洞的火山岩石，石匠們以它們的可塑性來選擇，再小心地將岩石撬開。然後，石匠在湖畔或和河邊仔細地尋找空地，將石頭置於其中，任憑流水衝擊，使其經過幾代的天然侵蝕，石匠本人或是他的子孫日後再收回石頭，經過堆疊，終成假山。這種延續性具體地反映了中國文化——父親播種，兒孫收穫。」
貝聿銘顯然收穫了不少來自父輩的支持，貝聿銘的父親貝祖詒曾任中國銀行廣州、香港、上海分行經理及總行副總經理，曾被譽為「匯兌奇才」，貝聿銘17歲時，就獲得父親的支持赴美國求學，從此遠離故鄉。
但貝聿銘的心中始終懷念着故土，貝聿銘的長子名為貝定中、次子貝建中和三子貝禮中，貝建中曾在一次接受採訪時說：「父親給我們取的名字都很中國」，不過幾個孩子中，只有外形最酷似父親的貝建中可以說中文。「父母當年以為我們早晚要回到中國，所以沒有特地教我們說中文。」貝建中解釋說。
在美國期間，貝聿銘逐步成為享譽世界的建築大師，他的建築非常注重和周邊的環境融為一體，建築內部設計雖不鋪張，但往往在細節處令人讚歎。
「最美的建築，應該是建築在時間之上的，時間會給出一切答案。」
這句貝聿銘的箴言在其最富戲劇色彩的作品——盧浮宮玻璃金字塔上得到了充分的體現。
1981年，新上任的法國總統密特朗決定重修當時的財政部，也就是如今的盧浮宮黎塞留館。1983年，在沒有任何選拔程序的情況下，密特朗指定貝聿銘完成該設計，在隨後的大盧浮宮重修計劃中，貝聿銘提出設計一個重200噸，高21米，由673塊菱形玻璃組成的純鋼鐵構造的金字塔，作為盧浮宮的入口。
這個前衞而大膽的設計方案引發不少法國民眾的不滿，盧浮宮前館長皮埃爾·羅森博格回憶說，就連大盧浮宮重修團隊內部，也有人堅決地持反對態度。但當時的盧浮宮面臨這缺少空間放置收藏品的問題，接待參觀者的空間也嚴重不足，最終反對者也不得不接受了該法案。
「時間會給出一切答案」，1989年，盧浮宮玻璃金字塔落成，民眾的意見背金字塔在夜間「映照着天空」（貝聿銘原話）的效果所震撼。「毫無疑問，金字塔自那以後成為巴黎的景觀之一，並與埃菲爾鐵塔齊名，不再是爭議的話題。」
2002年，本已退休的貝聿銘受邀回到蘇州，為蘇州設計了蘇州博物館新館。他深愛着這個封山之作，親切地將蘇州博物館新館稱為「我的小女兒」，兒時在獅子林假山中玩耍的記憶被喚醒，他「以壁為紙，以石為繪」，將整座博物館打造為一幅3D水墨畫。
在開館儀式上，貝聿銘感慨地說：「我73年前離開中國，但根在中國、在蘇州。這個博物館新館，就是我對家鄉的一點小小貢獻，有生之年還能有機會，為故鄉留下一個紀念，我倍感感恩榮幸。」
蘇州博物館在獲悉貝聿銘去世後，發佈悼詞稱：「我們震驚於噩耗，更深懷感念。感恩貝老為蘇博付出的全部心力，感恩貝老為觀眾帶來的藝術驚嘆，感恩貝老為每一位蘇博人激發的驕傲和努力。」蘇州博物館表示，貝聿銘先生雖已離去，但凝聚他生命之光的蘇州博物館將永遠銘記和懷念。
2007年，已經退休的盧浮宮前館長皮埃爾·羅森博格在其所著的《盧浮宮私人詞典》一書中專門為貝聿銘開設了一個詞條，並在這條詞條下記述了一些有趣的小故事，其中一個故事寫道，羅森博格曾邀請貝聿銘共進午餐，「我為他倒上1959年拉菲酒庄的葡萄酒（貝先生是葡萄酒的愛好者），他喝醉了（我確信，他用餐前就已經醉了）。」
相信在天堂里，天使們會用最好的葡萄酒，款待這位不斷創造奇蹟的建築大師。
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貝聿銘是國際著名的建築大師，巴黎羅浮宮的玻璃金字塔、香港中銀大廈、台灣東海大學路思義教堂都是其傑作。他的作品遍布全球多地，又定居美國多年，但中國人的身份仍離不開他。
【文匯】大公文匯全媒體報道：美籍華裔建築師貝聿銘逝世，終年102歲。他曾設計法國巴黎羅浮宮的玻璃金字塔，以及本港中銀大廈等劃時代建築。貝聿銘1917年在廣州出生，1935年前往美國攻讀建築學，大半生都居於美國，但他曾表示，即使在美國住了七、八十年，「仍然覺得自己是中國人」。
貝聿銘早年接受電視台訪問時表示：「對我來說，中國印記從未完全消失。現在我在美國住了七、八十年，仍然覺得自己是中國人。不是很怪嗎？我給了自己新的外表，但內心的一切早就存在了。」
1979年，中國領導人鄧小平訪美，美國國務卿萬斯（Cyrus Vance）在在國務院設午宴款待，貝聿銘和夫人受邀出席。不過接待人員看到他們的中國面孔，以為他們是中方的客人。貝聿銘尷尬地解釋他們是美方的客人，接待人員的表情顯得將信將疑，有些勉強地讓他們進去。
貝聿銘與妻子盧淑華育有三子一女。三個兒子定中、建中和禮中，都繼承父業為建築師。而且從三子女的名字亦可以看出貝聿銘植根深厚的中國情意結。
Ronald Myles Dworkin, philosopher of law
Dworkin was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. His parents, David and Madeline (nee Talamo) separated when he was a baby, and his mother, a promising concert pianist, worked as a music teacher in Providence, Rhode Island, to support Ronald and his brother and sister. He went to a public school in Providence with a classical tradition, and won a scholarship to Harvard, where he achieved straight As in all his four years' classes.
Dworkin arrived as a Rhodes scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford, with a formidable reputation. Dons all but bowed before his record. He chose to read law, but he hung out with philosophers. (He also played a lot of bridge, much of it with his lifelong friend Guido Calabresi, later dean of the Yale Law School and an appeal court judge in Connecticut, New York and Vermont.) His Oxford finals papers were as impeccable as the Harvard ones: straight alphas, after straight As. His two years at Oxford finished, he went back to Harvard, this time to read law. The law school gave him credit for his Oxford degree, so there were areas of the law (including criminal law) he never studied.
The conventional start to a brilliant legal career in the US is to work as a clerk to a leading judge. In 1957 Dworkin, on the basis of his exceptional record at Harvard, was chosen to clerk for Judge Learned Hand, then in his late 80s and the most eminent judge in the land outside the supreme court. Often Hand's clerks went on to work for Justice Felix Frankfurter, and were made for life.
Hand explained that he did not need Dworkin to draft opinions for him: "I don't know how you write," the great man said. "I write very well." He asked him instead to read what he had written. This led immediately to a difference of opinion. Hand was writing a series of Oliver Wendell Holmes lectures for Harvard in which he questioned whether the Brown case (Brown v School Board, in which the supreme court, in 1954, held for the first time that racially segregated education was necessarily unconstitutional) had been wrongly decided. Dworkin bravely challenged Hand to say publicly that Brown was wrong.
While he was working for Hand, Dworkin met his future wife Betsy Ross, the daughter of a successful businessman from the New York garment district who lived on Fifth Avenue. On one of their first dates, Dworkin told her that he had to drop off a document at the judge's house and asked her to come with him, saying it would take only a second.
In 1961, Betsy had twins, Anthony, who now works on human rights and democracy at the European Council on Foreign Relations thinktank, and Jennifer, an award-winning documentary film producer. In the same year, Dworkin was made a professor at the Yale Law School, and also master of one of the Yale residential colleges, Trumbull. It fell to him in the late 60s to have to deal with the student unrest. Dworkin left Yale and became a professor at the New York University Law School. Arthur Schlesinger persuaded him that he would be happier in New York than at His books were immensely influential, especially in US law schools. He published many articles both in technical law journals and also in the New York Review of Books.
Ronald Myles Dworkin, philosopher of law_(To be continued)
After that came A Matter of Principle (1985), about the sources of law, and Law's Empire (1986), a full-dress theory of law. In Life's Dominion (1993) he tried characteristically to find common ground on abortion between pro-life and pro-choice forces in a common respect for human life.
Dworkin's big idea was to put human dignity at the centre of his moral system, for judges and for others. "If we manage to lead a good life," he wrote, "we make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands."
In 2000, Betsy died of cancer. Dworkin formed a close friendship with Irene Brendel, wife of the pianist Alfred Brendel, and they later married. He is survived by Irene, Anthony and Jennifer, and two grandchildren.
Ronald Myles Dworkin, philosopher of law, born 11 December 1931; died 14 February 2013either Harvard or Yale. "New York is for grownups," the historian said gnomically.
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