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China’s digital economy, already home to the world’s largest population of internet and smartphone users, is likely to create 415 million jobs by 2035, bolstering technology’s share to 48 per cent of gross domestic product, according to forecasts by the Boston Consulting Group and AliResearch Institute.

Low-skilled, menial and repititive jobs will be replaced by robots, artificial intelligence and intuitive technologies such as touch screens, as well as voice and facial recognition software. Technology would displace menial jobs but would also create new opportunities, the report said.

The forecasts come at a time when AI invested by two of the world’s largest internet search operators is increasingly showing its mettle in competitions against humans. Google’s DeepMind has developed AlphaGo, which triumphed over human players of Go in 60 matches in China, while Baidu is entering its AI bot in game shows to solve complex problems.

AI would replace some jobs, including researchers, AliResearch head Gao Hongbing said.

“There will be AI-powered think tanks and some basic research will be done by machines,” he said. Humans would be added to the workforce, using their skills in certain areas to monetise their know-how via online platforms, he said.

Germany offers a good parallel experience. The BCG study found drones and automation would remove 610,000 factory floor jobs in Germany but by 2025 advances in technology would lead to 960,000 new opportunities in information technology and communications.

“Germany’s Siemens has about 300,000 workforce, which means the new technology will wipe out two Siemens but at the same time create three Siemens. Think about that,” said Ruan Fang, partner and managing director of BCG .

As machines become smarter, people are able to work no matter where they are in a more flexible way via the internet. AliResearch, a think tank affiliated with e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, predicted that about 400 million people in China would be self-employed through online platforms, waving goodbye to the traditional eight-hour working mode by 2036.

For example, Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing lets 15 million people who have driving licenses make money by offering services via its platforms. Alibaba’s online marketplace Taobao, which has 8,000 employees, facilitates the business of hundreds of thousands of suppliers and three million delivery staff. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.

Hao Jian, the chief consultant at China’s major online recruiting firm Zhaopin.com, said he had witnessed the same trend as people no longer needed to be employed by a certain company; they could simply find project-based work opportunities online.

“The demand for part-time jobs enjoyed the most rapid growth - 113 per cent year-on-year [last year] compared with the other 60 job categories Zhaopin has,” he said.

He said AI was good at finding patterns by analysing massive amounts of data.

“But jobs that require creativeness, involve emotions and tend to break rules rather than follow rules can never be replaced by machines,” he added.

The report foresaw that some low-skilled and repetitive tasks would be replaced by hi-tech equipment and technologies such as touch screens, robots and facial recognition without giving exact numbers of job cuts in the future. But the report emphasised that job opportunities created by the digital economy more than compensated for those positions that would disappear.

The report cited a World Bank report which estimated 55 to 77 per cent of China’s low-skilled workforce could be replaced by technology, while employees had to cultivate skills and know-how that would not be easily replaced by digital technologies.

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The business community has also worked to support these organizations with additional funding and resources, because the homeless crisis isn’t just a social concern, but a business one as well. Boston is a an attractive place to do business and a desirable destination drawing visitors from around the world — partly because of the high quality of life here and our ability to take care of our most vulnerable residents.

The result has been a 24 percent decrease in the number of homeless individuals living on the streets or in shelter in Boston during the past decade. But we can and should do more. The City of Boston‘s recent census count showed a 3.8 percent increase in the number of homeless people living in shelters and on the streets — an increase that is at least in part the result of soaring rents and a still recovering economy.

To partially address the decrease in state funding and to ensure the region remains a vibrant place of business and tourism, a coalition of organizations is asking the Legislature to make a greater investment – an additional $8.1 million — in the emergency assistance network that provides critical shelter and services for homeless individuals.

A more effective and better-managed system is within our grasp with adequate state support. The Legislature and Governor Patrick should take this opportunity to reward these agencies that are not only helping to get individuals off the street in the short-term, but that are developing innovative programs and services that address the underlying factors that cause homelessness in the first place.

A withholding of state dollars at this critical point could jeopardize the tremendous success the system has achieved. Despite the positive 10-year trend, the recent influx of homeless individuals is a real concern and will impact broader systems. Chronically homeless individuals contribute greatly to overall healthcare and other emergency costs. An increase in the individual homeless population will influence how much the state pays in health care and other costs. It also negatively impacts business and tourism.

Restoring funding to 2001 levels adjusted for inflation is a reasonable step that can help prevent a crisis when it comes to the individual homeless population. The business community should also take the opportunity to continue to support these social services agencies that provide such critical support to our most vulnerable residents. The long-term outcomes — and savings — will be well worth the investment.

Mary Jo Bane is a professor of public policy and management at the Harvard Kennedy School and a member of the Pine Street Inn’s board of directors. John Hailer is chairman of the New England Council and president and CEO of Natixis Global Asset Management — the Americas and Asia.
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LEDYARD, Conn. — As benefits of tribal membership go, few compare with the six-figure stipends once enjoyed by the Mashantucket Pequots, who own and operate the giant Foxwoods Resort Casino.

Since those payments dried up, more have started taking advantage of another privilege: casino jobs.

The Pequots, a tribe of roughly 900 people in southeastern Connecticut, receive special consideration for employment and promotions under the law. Tribal members who take entry-level jobs at the casino also have been eligible for supplemental pay raising their minimum wage to about $24 an hour.

A trickle of recent tribal hires has included 15 who took jobs as table-game dealers. While tribal employees represent a tiny fraction of the 8,000-strong workforce at Foxwoods, their status has emerged as a contentious labor issue, with one union pushing in contract talks to protect veteran workers’ seniority rights.

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The Pequots halted generous revenue-sharing payments to adult members earlier this year as they struggle through a financial crisis brought on largely by a slump in the casino business. The tribe still helps with college tuition payments and offered financial and employment counseling to help members through the new austerity, but jobs are one of the biggest remaining benefits of membership.

A Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation spokesman declined to comment on how many members are working at Foxwoods.

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John Stuart Mill, (born May 20, 1806, London, Eng.—died May 8, 1873, Avignon, France), English philosopher, economist, and exponent of Utilitarianism. He was prominent as a publicist in the reforming age of the 19th century, and remains of lasting interest as a logician and an ethical theorist.

    Early life and career

    The eldest son of the British historian, economist, and philosopher James Mill, he was born in his father’s house in Pentonville, London. He was educated exclusively by his father, who was a strict disciplinarian. By his eighth year he had read in the original Greek Aesop’s Fables, Xenophon’s Anabasis, and the whole of the historian Herodotus. He was acquainted with the satirist Lucian, the historian of philosophy Diogenes Laërtius, the Athenian writer and educational theorist Isocrates, and six dialogues of Plato. He had also read a great deal of history in English. At the age of eight he started Latin, the geometry of Euclid, and algebra and began to teach the younger children of the family. His main reading was still history, but he went through all the Latin and Greek authors commonly read in the schools and universities and, by the age of 10 could read Plato and the Athenian statesman Demosthenes with ease. About the age of 12, he began a thorough study of Scholastic logic, at the same time reading Aristotle’s logical treatises in the original. In the following year he was introduced to political economy and studied the work of the Scottish political economist and philosopher Adam Smith and that of the English economist David Ricardo.

    While the training the younger Mill received has aroused amazement and criticism, its most important aspect was the close association it fostered with the strenuous character and vigorous intellect of his father. From his earliest days he spent much time in his father’s study and habitually accompanied him on his walks. He thus inevitably acquired many of his father’s speculative opinions and his father’s way of defending them. But he did not receive the impress passively and mechanically. The duty of collecting and weighing evidence for himself was at every turn impressed upon the boy. His childhood was not unhappy, but it was a strain on his constitution and he suffered from the lack of natural, unforced development.

    From May 1820 until July 1821, Mill was in France with the family of Sir Samuel Bentham, brother of Jeremy Bentham, the English Utilitarian philosopher, economist, and theoretical jurist. Copious extracts from a diary kept at this time show how methodically he read and wrote, studied chemistry and botany, tackled advanced mathematical problems, and made notes on the scenery and the people and customs of the country. He also gained a thorough acquaintance with the French language. On his return in 1821 he added to his work the study of psychology and of Roman law, which he read with John Austin, his father having half decided on the bar as the best profession open to him. This intention, however, was abandoned, and in 1823, when he had just completed his 17th year, he entered the examiner’s office of the India House. After a short probation he was promoted in 1828 to assistant examiner. For 20 years, from 1836 (when his father died) to 1856, Mill had charge of the British East India Company’s relations with the Indian states, and in 1856 he became chief of the examiner’s office.

    In 1822 Mill had read P.-E.-L. Dumont’s exposition of Bentham’s doctrines in the Traités de Législation, which made a lasting impression upon him. The impression was confirmed by the study of the English psychologists and also of two 18th-century French philosophers—Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, who was also a psychologist, and Claude-Adrien Helvétius, who was noted for his emphasis on physical sensations. Soon after, in 1822–23, Mill established among a few friends the Utilitarian Society, taking the word, as he tells us, from Annals of the Parish, a novel of Scottish country life by John Galt.

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    Two newspapers welcomed his contributions—The Traveller, edited by a friend of Bentham’s, and The Morning Chronicle, edited by his father’s friend John Black. One of his first efforts was a solid argument for freedom of discussion in a series of letters to the Chronicle on the prosecution of Richard Carlile, a 19th-century English radical and freethinker. Mill seized every chance for exposing departures from sound principle in Parliament and courts of justice. Another outlet was opened up for him (April 1824) with the founding of the Westminster Review, which was the organ of the philosophical radicals. In 1825 he began work on an edition of Bentham’s Rationale of Judicial Evidence (5 vol., 1827). He took part eagerly in discussions with the many men of distinction who came to his father’s house and engaged in set discussions at a reading society formed at the home of English historian George Grote in 1825 and in debates at the London Debating Society, formed in the same year.

    Public life and writing

    The Autobiography tells how in 1826 Mill’s enthusiasm was checked by a misgiving as to the value of the ends that he had set before him. At the London Debating Society, where he first measured his strength in public conflict, he found himself looked upon with curiosity as a precocious phenomenon, a “made man,” an intellectual machine set to grind certain tunes. The elder Mill, like Plato, would have put poets under ban as enemies of truth; he subordinated private to public affections; and Landor’s maxims of “few acquaintances, fewer friends, no familiarities” had his cordial approval. The younger Mill now felt himself forced to abandon these doctrines. Too much in awe of his father to make him a confidant, he wrestled with his doubts in gloomy solitude. He emerged from the struggle with a more catholic view of human happiness, a delight in poetry for its own sake, a more placable attitude in controversy, a hatred of sectarianism, and an ambition no less noble and disinterested but moderated to practical possibilities. Gradually, the debates in the Debating Society attracted men with whom contact was invigorating and inspiring. Mill ceased to attend the society in 1829, but he carried away from it the conviction that a true system of political philosophy was

    something much more complex and many-sided than he had previously had any idea of, and that its office was to supply, not a set of model institutions but principles from which the institutions suitable to any given circumstances might be deduced.

    Mill’s letters in The Examiner in the autumn of 1830, after a visit to Paris, where he made the acquaintance of the younger liberals, may be taken as marking his return to hopeful activity; and a series of articles on “The Spirit of the Age” appeared in the same paper in 1831. During the years 1832 and 1833 he contributed many essays to Tait’s Magazine, The Jurist, and The Monthly Repository. In 1835 Sir William Molesworth founded The London Review, with Mill as editor. It was amalgamated with The Westminster (as The London and Westminster Review) in 1836, and Mill continued as editor (latterly as proprietor, also) until 1840. In and after 1840 he published several important articles in The Edinburgh Review. Some of the essays written for these journals were reprinted in the first two volumes (1859) of Mill’s Dissertations and Discussions and give evidence of the increasing width of his interests. Among the more important are “Thoughts on Poetry and Its Varieties” (1833), “Writings of Alfred de Vigny” (1838), “Bentham” (1838), “Coleridge” (1840), “M. De Tocqueville on Democracy in America” (1840), “Michelet’s History of France” (1844), and “Guizot’s Essays and Lectures on History” (1845). The twin essays on Bentham and Coleridge show Mill’s powers at their splendid best and indicate very clearly the new spirit that he tried to breathe into English radicalism.

    During these years Mill also wrote his great systematic works on logic and on political economy. His reawakened enthusiasm for humanity had taken shape as an aspiration to supply an unimpeachable method of proof for conclusions in moral and social science; the French positivist philosopher Auguste Comte had some influence here, but the main inspiration undoubtedly came from the English scientist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton, whose physics had already been accepted as a model of scientific exposition by such earlier British philosophers as John Locke, David Hume, Jeremy Bentham, and James Mill. But he was determined that the new logic should not simply oppose the old logic. In his Westminster review (of 1828) of Richard Whately’s Elements of Logic, he was already defending the syllogism against the Scottish philosophers who had talked of superseding it by a supposed system of inductive logic. He required his inductive logic to “supplement and not supersede.” For several years he searched in vain for the means of concatenation. Finally, in 1837, on reading William Whewell’s Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences and rereading John F.W. Herschel’s Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, Mill at last saw his way clear both to formulating the methods of scientific investigation and to joining the new logic onto the old as a supplement. A System of Logic, in two volumes, was published in 1843 (3rd–8th editions, introducing many changes, 1851–72). Book VI is his valiant attempt to formulate a logic of the human sciences—including history, psychology, and sociology—based on causal explanation conceived in Humean terms, a formulation that has lately come in for radical criticism.

    Mill distinguished three stages in his development as a political economist. In 1844 he published the Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy, which he had written several years earlier, and four out of five of these essays are solutions of perplexing technical problems—the distribution of the gains of international commerce, the influence of consumption on production, the definition of productive and unproductive labour, and the precise relations between profits and wages. Here for the most part Mill appears as the disciple of David Ricardo, striving after more precise statements and reaching forward to further consequences. In his second stage, originality and independence become more conspicuous as he struggles toward the standpoint from which he wrote his Principles of Political Economy. This was published in 1848 (2 vol.; 2nd and 3rd eds., with significant differences, 1849, 1852), and, at about the same time, Mill was advocating the creation of peasant proprietorships as a remedy for the distresses and disorder in Ireland. Thereafter, he made a more thorough study of Socialist writers. He was convinced that the social question was as important as the political question. He declined to accept property, devised originally to secure peace in a primitive society, as necessarily sacred in its existing developments in a quite different stage of society. He separated questions of production and distribution and could not rest satisfied with the distribution that condemned the labouring classes to a cramped and wretched existence, in many cases to starvation. He did not come to a Socialist solution, but he had the great merit of having considered afresh the foundations of society. This he called his third stage as a political economist, and he says that he was helped toward it by Mrs. Taylor (Harriet Hardy), who became his wife in 1851.

    It is generally supposed that Mill writes with a lover’s extravagance about Harriet’s powers. He expressly says, indeed, that he owed none of his technical doctrine to her, that she influenced only his ideals of life for the individual and for society, and that the only work directly inspired by her is the essay on the “Enfranchisement of Women” (Dissertations, vol. 2). Nevertheless, Mill’s relations with her have always been something of a puzzle.

    During the seven years of his marriage Mill became increasingly absorbed in the work of the British East India Company and in consequence published less than at any other period of his life. In 1856 he became head of the examiner’s office in the India House, and for two years, till the dissolution of the company in 1858, his official work kept him fully occupied. It fell to him as head of the office to write the defense of the company’s government of India when the transfer of its powers was proposed. Mill opposed the transfer, and the documents in which he defended the company’s administration are models of trenchant and dignified pleading. On the dissolution of the company, Mill was offered a seat in the new council but declined it and retired with a pension of £1,500. His retirement from official life was followed almost immediately by his wife’s death at Avignon, France. He spent most of the rest of his life at a villa at Saint-Véran, near Avignon, returning to his house at Blackheath only for a short period in each year.

    The later years

    Mill sought relief by publishing a series of books on ethics and politics that he had meditated upon and partly written in collaboration with his wife. The essay On Liberty appeared in 1859 with a touching dedication to her and the Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform in the same year. In his Considerations on Representative Government (1861) he systematized opinions already put forward in many casual articles and essays. It has been remarked how Mill combined enthusiasm for democratic government with pessimism as to what democracy was likely to do; practically every discussion in these books exemplifies this. His Utilitarianism (in Fraser’s Magazine, 1861; separate publication, 1863) was a closely reasoned attempt to answer objections to his ethical theory and to remove misconceptions about it. He was especially anxious to make it clear that he included in “utility” the pleasures of the imagination and the gratification of the higher emotions; and to make a place in his system for settled rules of conduct.

    Mill also began to write again on the wider philosophical questions that had occupied him in the Logic. In 1865 he published both his Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy and his Auguste Comte and Positivism, but in both writings his motives were largely political. It was because he regarded the writings and sayings of Sir William Hamilton as the great fortress of intuitional philosophy in Great Britain that Mill undertook to counter his pretensions. In dealing with Comte, Mill distinguished sharply between Comte’s earlier philosophical doctrine of Positivism and his later religion of humanity. The doctrine he commended (as he had frequently done previously) because he regarded it as a natural development of the outlook of George Berkeley and Hume; the religion he attacked because he saw in it merely another attempt to foist a priestly hierarchy upon suffering humanity. It is noticeable that Mill’s language in these books is much closer to the language of Bentham and James Mill than it had been since his boyhood, and it was as an act of piety that in 1869 he republished his father’s Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind with additional illustrations and explanatory notes.

    While engaged in these years mainly with theoretical studies, Mill did not remit his interest in current politics. He supported the North in the U.S. Civil War, using all his strength to explain that the real issue at stake in the struggle was the abolition of slavery. In 1865 he stood as parliamentary candidate for Westminster, on conditions strictly in accordance with his principles. He would not canvass or pay agents to canvass for him, nor would he engage to attend to the local business of the constituency. He was with difficulty persuaded even to address a meeting of the electors but was elected. He took an active part in the debates preceding the passage of the 1867 Reform Bill, and helped to extort from the government several useful modifications of the bill, for the prevention of corrupt practices. The reform of land tenure in Ireland (see his England and Ireland, 1868, and his Chapters and Speeches on the Irish Land Question, 1870), the representation of women (see below), the reduction of the national debt, the reform of London government, and the abrogation of the Declaration of Paris (1856)—concerning the carriage of property at sea during the Crimean War—were among the topics on which he spoke. He took occasion more than once to enforce what he had often advocated, England’s duty to intervene in foreign politics in support of freedom. As a speaker Mill was somewhat hesitating, but he showed great readiness in extemporaneous debate. Elected rector of St. Andrews University, he published his “Inaugural Address” in 1867.

    Mill’s subscription to the election expenses of the freethinker and radical politician Charles Bradlaugh and his attack on the conduct of Gov. E.J. Eyre in Jamaica were perhaps the main causes of his defeat in the general parliamentary election of 1868. But his studied advocacy of unfamiliar projects of reform had made him unpopular with “moderate Liberals.” He retired with a sense of relief to Avignon. His villa was filled with books and newspapers; the country round it furnished him with a variety of walks; he read, wrote, discussed, walked, botanized. He was extremely fond of music and was himself a fair pianist. His stepdaughter, Helen Taylor (died January 1907), was his constant companion after his wife’s death. Mill was an enthusiastic botanist all his life and a frequent contributor of notes and short papers to the Phytologist. During his last journey to Avignon he was looking forward to seeing the spring flowers and completing a flora of the locality.

    Mill did not relax his laborious habits or his ardent outlook on human affairs. The essays in the fourth volume of his Dissertations (1875; vol. 3 had appeared in 1867)—on endowments, on land, on labour, and on metaphysical and psychological questions—were written for the Fortnightly Review at intervals after his short parliamentary career. In 1867 he had been one of the founders, with Mrs. P.A. Taylor, Emily Davies, and others, of the first women’s suffrage society, which developed into the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, and in 1869 he published The Subjection of Women (written 1861), the classical theoretical statement of the case for woman suffrage. His last public activity was concerned with the starting of the Land Tenure Reform Association, for which he wrote in The Examiner and made a public speech a few months before his death; the interception by the state of the unearned increment on land and the promotion of cooperative agriculture were the most striking features in his program, which he regarded as a timely compromise in view of the impending struggle between capital and labour in Europe. He died in 1873, and his Autobiography and Three Essays on Religion (1874) were published posthumously.

    A bronze statue of Mill stands on the Thames embankment in London, and G.F. Watts’s copy of his original portrait of Mill hangs in the National Gallery there.

    Influence and significance

    Mill was a man of extreme simplicity in his mode of life. The influence that his works exercised upon contemporary English thought can scarcely be overestimated, nor can there be any doubt about the value of the liberal and inquiring spirit with which he handled the great questions of his time. Beyond that, however, there has been considerable difference of opinion about the enduring merits of his philosophy. At first sight he is the most lucid of philosophers. Many people have spoken of the marvelous intelligibility of his writing. Usually, however, it is not long before doubts begin to creep in. Although the lucidity remains, its span is seen to be somewhat limited, and one sometimes has the uneasy feeling that he is being equally lucid on both sides of a question.

    Oddly enough, however, this judgment has not led to any neglect of Mill. Little attention is now paid to Hamilton or to Whewell, but Mill’s name continually crops up in philosophical discussions. This is partly due to the fact that Mill offers a body of doctrine and a set of technical terms on many subjects (notably on induction) that have proved extremely useful in the classroom. But a more important reason is that he has come to be regarded as a sort of personification of certain tendencies in philosophy that it is regarded as continually necessary to expound or expose because they make such a powerful appeal to serious minds. Thus he is or says he is a Utilitarian; yet nothing, it is pointed out, could tell more strongly against Utilitarianism than certain passages in his writings. Then again, he is said to be an Empiricist (although he says himself that he is not), and his theories of the syllogism and of mathematics are constantly used to demonstrate the fatal consequences of this way of thinking.

    It is misleading to speak without qualification of Mill’s Utilitarianism. Nor is it sufficient to add that Mill modified the Utilitarianism that he inherited from Bentham and from his father in one way and another in order to meet the criticisms that it encountered in Victorian times. He does, it is true, sometimes give that impression (as in his essay Utilitarianism); but elsewhere (as in his essay On Liberty) he scarcely attempts to conceal the fact that his premises are completely independent of Bentham’s. Thus, contrary to the common belief, it appears to be very hazardous to characterize offhand the precise position of Mill on any major philosophical topic. He sometimes behaved with a reckless disregard of consequences more suitable to a Romantic than to a Utilitarian. He is thoroughly romantic, again, and thoroughly representative of his age in the eagerness with which he seeks out and endeavours to assimilate every last exotic line of thought which shows any signs of vitality. He himself claimed to be superior to most of his contemporaries in “ability and willingness to learn from everybody,” and indeed, for all his father’s careful schooling, there was never anybody less buttoned up against alien influences than Mill. In his writings there can be discerned traces of every wind of doctrine of the early 19th century.

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Let's dance and play dress up! Come to the Halloween Party Extravaganza  A Masquerade Ball for SINGLES!  (couples welcome) Costumes recommended, but not required. Dance to your favorites with live DJ Mike Westerman. (wide variety of music: rock, R&B, to best current hits)

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It is happening on the 27th of October at the San Ramon Marriott Hotel. The party starts at 7:30 pm.

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This event is hosted by Professionals Guild so a crowd of fun-loving professional people are coming and waiting to meet and dance with you to the tune of your favorite hits. (Couples are also welcome)  It's fun to bring a date and wear matching costumes.

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Plus, Guest Speaker and Dating Coach Susan Bradley will teach us superb flirting skills, great to be learning from the expert! This entertaining talk with happen early in the evening and will not interrupt dancing, which kicks off around 9pm.

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box inside the car. Changed it and interior lights work now. I checked all fuses under the
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The mechanic John Goguen is well versed in the world of Saabs. His father owned one of the first Saab dealerships in New England, so the cars run through his blood. He not only fixes them, but drives and loves Saabs as well. Being that he specializes in the make, there are not many problems that he has not come across. He takes his time and is a perfectionist. The only challenge is that he is a one man show and it can take some time to get your car scheduled for repairs. His repair bills are most definitely fair and he is not one to gouge just because it is a Saab. You will not be disappointed. Oh, no credit cards....Live within your means and pay by check or cash.
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Movement founder says family is a "first line of evangelization"

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Pope tells Croatian Bishops to announce gospel values in face of relativism

Jul 6, 2006 - 12:00 am .- Pope Benedict XVI today received prelates from the Croatian Bishops' Conference, who have just completed their "ad limina" visit.  The Holy Father called on the bishops to continue preaching the Gospel in their changing country.

Patriarch Alexy II positive about Russian Orthodox-Roman Catholic relations

Jul 6, 2006 - 12:00 am .- Russian Patriarch Alexy II insisted on the need for the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches to cooperate facing the challenges of the current culture in modern Europe, reported Interfax.

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Indian bishops demand justice following attack on sisters of Mother Teresa

Jul 6, 2006 - 12:00 am .- Archbishop Marampudi Joji of Hyderabad and other Christian leaders are demanding that authorities take immediate action against Hindu radicals who harassed four Missionaries of Charity, reported the Catholic Bishops Conference of India.

Cardinal Herranz asks legislators to recognize marriage as a union between man and woman

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Lebanon is last hope for Christianity in the Middle East, Priest says

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Pope changes Valencia schedule to include visit to site of subway accident

Jul 6, 2006 - 12:00 am .- Organizers of the Fifth World Meeting of Families confirmed yesterday that the schedule of Pope Benedict XVI will be adjusted to include a visit the site of the metro disaster which took the life of 41 people in Valencia on Monday.

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Cardinal Rivera says Holy Father will give himself to the very end

.- At the conclusion of Sunday Mass at the Archdiocesan Cathedral, Cardinal Norberto Rivera of Mexico City, said, “We know (the Holy Father) will give of himself until the very end of his life.”

Cardinal Rivera expressed satisfaction that the Pope appeared in public on Sunday to bestow his blessing upon the world and he denied that the John Paul II would resign, saying the Pope is conscious of the work God has entrusted to him.

He expressed his assurance that the Pope “will continue to recover and the Church will continue with her pace, because the Vicar of Christ has many collaborators that take care of outstanding matters.”

Cardinal Rivera offered Mass this Sunday for the sick, on the occasion of the 13th World Day of the Sick, which was celebrated at the Shrine of Holy Mary Queen of the Apostles in Yaounde, Cameroon.

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Court hears Michelle Bouchard transferred money to her personal account

The personal banker of an elderly customer told jurors “red flags” were raised when Michelle Bouchard transferred large amounts of money out of the joint account she held with the man from whom she is accused of stealing more than $2 million.

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Former Butterfield Bank employee Judith Holland gave evidence on Friday and Monday in the trial of Bouchard, who is accused of stealing money from James Bruce Handford between May 2010 and October 2012.

Ms. Holland said she took over responsibility for Mr. Handford’s accounts in July 2011 and became concerned about account activities in 2012.

When she first met him, he had a CI account and two U.S. accounts in his own name. She saw him almost every day and they had a good professional relationship, she said. Mr. Handford was 83 at the time.

Ms. Holland became aware of a joint account he had with Bouchard and managed it also.

The jury had already heard that the joint CI account was opened on May 25, 2010, when Mr. Handford deposited CI$164,000. The prosecution and defense have agreed that Mr. Handford thereafter deposited CI$1,153,482 into the joint account and by Oct. 15, 2012, it was overdrawn.

The jury also heard from Chris Duggan, former manager of Butterfield’s private banking section. He pointed out that the joint account did not mean James Handford and Michelle Bouchard; it meant James Handford or Michelle Bouchard.

Ms. Holland explained further that the joint account belonged to both individuals equally and either one could act or sign instructions. The account could also be closed by either party.

She said Mr. Handford came to see her on Feb. 13, 2012. He provided a handwritten note asking that the CI joint account be closed because it was not needed any more. She acted on his instructions and closed the account.

A week later, Mr. Handford and Bouchard came to see her and ask that the account be reopened. Ms. Holland said Bouchard did most of the talking, saying the account had been closed in error and she needed it to pay Mr. Handford’s bills.

Ms. Holland said she asked Mr. Handford what he wanted to do. She said she could sense some awkwardness, “but he insisted it be reopened.”

In April 2012, a U.S. savings account was opened in the name of James Handford and Michelle Bouchard, with Mr. Handford depositing US$700,000.

Mr. Handford left for his yearly trip to his native Australia early the following month.

On May 28, Bouchard transferred US$50,000 from the joint account to her personal U.S. account at the bank. Between May 28 and June 28, she transferred a total of US$550,000 to her personal accounts (U.S. and Canadian), the court heard.

Meanwhile, on May 30, 2012, Bouchard carried out five ATM transactions of $5,000 each from the CI joint account, transferring the money to her personal CI account. On June 1, she used an ATM to make three transfers of $8,000 from the joint account to her personal CI account.

Ms. Holland said she got “red flags from the system” when this type of activity occurs. She said she called Bouchard about it and explained that she could do the transfers for her. Bouchard told her she couldn’t get to the bank, so she was doing the transfers that way. Bouchard said she would cancel an eye doctor appointment so she could do her banking. Ms. Holland said there was no need to cancel the appointment; she just needed to know (why the ATM transfers had occurred).

In addition, in 10 transactions between April 19 and July 3, 2012, Bouchard transferred CI$575,000 from the CI joint account to her personal account.

Ms. Holland said she contacted Mr. Handford’s daughter, Susan van Dijk, in Australia. Mrs. van Dijk said she was coming to Cayman and they spoke in person on Sept. 26, 2012.

Ms. Holland then suggested to Mr. Handford that his daughter be added to his accounts.

Asked what caused her to suggest that, Ms. Holland said she had seen a slight deterioration in Mr. Handford’s health. “When a client gets a little bit older, it’s commonplace for me to consider his health and his best interests and I felt at that stage it would be a welcome decision to add one of his family onto the accounts. It was Mr. Handford’s suggestion that the best person would be his daughter.”

On Oct. 12, 2012, Mr. Handford instructed Ms. Holland to remove Bouchard from his joint accounts and add his daughter.

Bouchard is accused of 15 counts of theft for amounts totalling CI$1.59 million and US$805,806.25 between 2010 and 2012, as well as three counts of transferring criminal property, six counts of attempting to transfer criminal property, one of forgery and one of obtaining property by deception.

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