Electronic tongue is a device which measures and compares tastes. Electronic tongue is also called e-tongue. Electronic tongue equipped with multiple sensors which detect dissolved organic and inorganic compounds. Electronic tongue applies pattern recognition method to predict the taste of the sample. Electronic tongue has several application in various industries areas such as the pharmaceutical industry, food and beverage industry, and the healthcare industry. In the pharmaceutical industry, electronic tongue can be used for assessment of API bitterness strength and quantify bitterness of masking material. Electronic tongue is used to better adherence and improvement of taste of drugs for pediatric and geriatric patient base. Pharmaceutical companies have introduced the taste sensing systems for better development of pediatric and geriatric formulation. Electronic tongue is entered into medical diagnostic market and provide non-invasive disease diagnosis. The electronic tongue has used to detect and identify a wide array of disorders including mental health disorders and metabolic disorder by analyzing both liquid and vapor patient sample. Electronic tongue systems such as biomimetic cross-reactive sensor array are affordable and efficient for medical diagnosis.
Electronic Tongue Market: Drivers and Restraints: Electronic tongue market is expected to accounts for a significant growth rate as technological advancement in the medical industry. Increasing demand for advanced and non-invasive diagnosis devices expected to favor the growth of the electronic tongue market. Growing research and development for new drugs manufacturing expected propel the growth of the electronic tongue market over the forecast period. Increasing adoption of advanced technologies and devices in pharmaceutical manufacturing units expected to ample the growth of the electronic tongue market. Increasing government funding for drug development and medical diagnosis producers advancement expected to boost up the growth of the electronic tongue market. Growing development of new devices and sensors for tastes assessment of dissolved organic and inorganic compounds favors the growth of the electronic tongue market.
Electronic Tongue Market: Segmentation: On the basis of application, electronic tongue market can be segmented as: Medical Diagnosis, Drug Development, Scientific Research. On the basis of end user, electronic tongue market can be segmented as: Pharmaceutical Companies, Contract Research Organization, Hospitals, Diagnostic Laboratories.
Electronic Tongue Market: Overview: Electronic tongue market expected to grow with the significant growth rate over the forecast period as increasing demand for the electronic tongue in the pharmaceutical industry. Electronic tongue performs taste masking assessment and provide objective results. Electronic tongue performs taste assessment in a way similar to the human tongue. Electronic tongue analyzed sensory features such as the taste of drugs which is a key element in pharmaceutical product sales. Electronic tongue also detects gustatory components metallic, astringent and pungent with basic tastes such as sweet, bitter, salty, sour and umami. Electronic tongue enables pharmaceutical scientist to perform experiments without human safety consideration. Electronic tongue simplified the sensory test procedure for drug bitterness measurement.
Electronic Tongue Market: Region-wise Outlook: In terms of geography, the electronic tongue market has been divided into seven regions including Western Europe, North- America, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Japan, Middle-East & Africa, and Asia- Pacific excluding & Japan (APEJ). North America is expected to contribute the highest revenue share in the electronic tongue market as an increasing number of drug development and API formulation testing. Western European expected to contribute the second largest revenue followed by North America in electronic tongue market. Western Europe electronic tongue market expected to grow with major growth rate as increasing demand for advanced medical diagnostic devices. The Asia Pacific excluding Japan electronic tongue market is expected to grow with the highest growth rate over the forecast period due to increasing healthcare expenditure and growing investments in pharmaceutical developments.
Electronic Tongue Market: Key Market Participants: Example of companies participants in global electronic tongue market recognize across the value chain are Higuchi Inc., Norlab, Alpha MOS, TheSmartTongue, AFB International, Blonder Tongue Laboratories, Inc. and others. Manufactures are focusing on development of customized electronic tongue devices for medical and pharmaceutical industry.


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"Next to impossible to put down . . . exciting, mysterious, and totally satisfying."—STEPHEN KING
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage comes a riveting standalone novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia—where the truth isn't what it seems.
Founded by the mysterious genius known as the Designer, the archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In this island paradise, Prospera's lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling lives until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant to measure their physical health and psychological well-being, fall below 10 percent. Then they retire themselves, embarking on a ferry ride to the island known as the Nursery, where their failing bodies are renewed, their memories are wiped clean, and they are readied to restart life afresh.
Proctor Bennett, of the Department of Social Contracts, has a satisfying career as a ferryman, gently shepherding people through the retirement process—and, when necessary, enforcing it. But all is not well with Proctor. For one thing, he's been dreaming—which is supposed to be impossible in Prospera. For another, his monitor percentage has begun to drop alarmingly fast. And then comes the day he is summoned to retire his own father, who gives him a disturbing and cryptic message before being wrestled onto the ferry.
Meanwhile, something is stirring. The Support Staff, ordinary men and women who provide the labor to keep Prospera running, have begun to question their place in the social order. Unrest is building, and there are rumors spreading of a resistance group—known as "Arrivalists"—who may be fomenting revolution.
Soon Proctor finds himself questioning everything he once believed, entangled with a much bigger cause than he realized—and on a desperate mission to uncover the truth.
Justin Cronin is the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage, The Twelve, The City of Mirrors, Mary and O'Neil (which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Stephen Crane Prize), and The Summer Guest. His other honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Whiting Writers' Award. A Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Rice University, he divides his time between Houston, Texas, and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
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Prospera is an idyllic archipelago state, hidden away and isolated from the outside world, a land of sunny skies, ocean breezes, and happiness that is measured by a number. After a long, fulfilling life, Prosperans are ferried off to the Nursery, an island where their memories are wiped and their bodies restored so that they start over with a clean slate. Proctor Bennett is a ferryman, but when he's called to ferry his father, his last, distraught words to him are that their world is not the world. Proctor's entire reality is shaken, and the utopia he thinks he lives in takes on a disturbing edge as it devolves into chaos and lunacy. Proctor grapples with an untethered existence, where reality has an ethereal quality that evokes a desperate need for the truth. The result is a page-turner that is impossible to put down. A profoundly genius culmination of every twisty event and unveiled secret caps off this mind-bending masterpiece. VERDICT The velvety prose, the creepy heart-clenching suspense, and the meaning and emotion layered into every word all give rise to an incredibly thought-provoking sci-fi thriller from Cronin (The City of Mirrors).—Andrea Dyba
The Ferryman is next to impossible to put down once you've read the first few pages. Exciting, mysterious, and totally satisfying, this is a book to get lost in."—Stephen King

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To ensure that the air traffic control (ATC) system functions efficiently and safely, Air Traffic Controllers (ATCOs) need to perform optimally. This can be challenging in a line of work that involves stress and sleepless nights. At EUROCONTROL, drawing on our decades-long expertise and in cooperation with partners, we have approached the issues of stress, sleep and fatigue from all angles. Here are three recent offerings to help ATCOs and air navigation service providers address the challenges posed by fatigue issues, today and in the future.
Being well rested is essential in ensuring that ATCOs can give of their best. However, the combination of a stressful job and working in shifts may complicate the mechanism of being able to simply 'turn off' after work and 'turn in' for a good night's sleep. Not being able to do so can cause a build-up of fatigue and an accumulation of sleep debt, both of which have a negative effect on concentration and, in consequence, performance.
In collaboration with experts in the field of sleep and fatigue management, we at EUROCONTROL have developed a booklet to change any misconceptions and to address the fatigue issue.
The booklet helps ATCOs detect early signs and symptoms of fatigue and provides strategies and tips on how to deal with sleep debt in order to regain homeostasis (body balance).
Fatigue is a serious threat to the safety of the ATC system. To mitigate this potential crisis on an organisational level, regulatory frameworks have been put in place to ensure that all centres have implemented detection, monitoring and management measures. EUROCONTROL provides training courses to translate legal requirements into practical and applicable actions.
Our Training Institute in Luxembourg (IANS) delivers a course to promote and ensure compliance with the new European Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/340 and its application on sleep and fatigue management training for ANSPs. It shares valuable knowledge and provides useful tools for people in charge of applying the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/373.
Sleep and fatigue issues often go hand-in-hand with stress. Figuring out the causes of stress and how they can be mitigated is a challenge.
In February, EUROCONTROL took part in a validation exercise organised by the SESAR Joint Undertaking to understand the stress ATCOs face and to gauge how interaction with new technologies could affect their performance.
The STRESS project's final validation exercise took place in Toulouse. It tested automation scenarios and the use of indexes to assess ATCO performance. The participants - 20 Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile (ENAC) ATCOs and ATCO students from the EUROCONTROL Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre (MUAC) – were put in a direct routing environment to test their stress levels due to high automation, transitions from low to high automation and automation failure. The analysed data will feed into guidelines for future ATC systems' design.
This project has received funding from the SESAR Joint Undertaking under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 699381.
Coordinated by Deep Blue, the project brings together several European partners, including the French National School for Civil Aviation (ENAC), Sapienza University of Rome, Anadolu University and EUROCONTROL.
Stress and fatigue can be a challenge for air traffic controllers to overcome. They also pose a risk to the safety of air traffic management.


Did you know that rooks are among the most intelligent birds in the world? They come from the same intelligent family of birds that includes ravens, crows, and magpies. Rooks' brains are very large relative to their size, so they can learn how to perform tasks very quickly. One test with rooks showed that they could quickly choose the right tool to lift a bucket and finally get the food they wanted.


Could rubber help our roads to bounce back?
The UK produces 50 million waste tyres each year which can't go to landfill and our engineers are looking at the potential for trialling the use of some of this material in road resurfacing material.
Rubber from tyres has already been tested in Germany and Coventry in the hope that it will provide the sort of flexibility and hard-wearing qualities that would make for longer-lasting road surfaces.
Another new technique that has been catching the imagination of some people involves the use of waste plastic. Like tyres the UK produces a large amount of this material and tests have also been carried out in this country to see how it fares, but at the moment the council's experts don't think that the process is advanced enough to use in Oxfordshire for carriageways but we are working with our suppliers to look at the potential for the use of plastics in footways.
Normally when a road is resurfaced the old materials are dug up and sent off to landfill. This not only costs money but also could be a waste of valuable materials.
The county council has recently been using a technique called 'Regen' where old surface materials are recycled on site. We are also trialling similar techniques for small scale patching and pothole repairs, see below for information on Roadmender.
Doing this reduces the need to bring in new materials and the number of lorry movements is reduced making an overall co2 reduction compared with a traditional treatment. These environmental benefits alone have been a great reason to utilise this process but it is also a lot cheaper than doing a traditional treatment.
We have been sending our fleet of Dragon Patchers out onto the county's roads for a few years now and their talent for fixing large numbers of rural potholes, and sealing the surrounding surface, is well known.
Their work will continue, but the hunt is always on for new technology and methods to keep the highways in good shape.
A recent trial of a Road Mender patching unit, which heats the existing road surface combined with some additional material then rolled, leaving seamless repairs, recycling of old surface material in a relatively quick process, has been viewed favourably.
It is hoped that this portable machine can be put to use again in 2019 and, by then, we hope to have a more catchy name for it.
Not every cost saving technique is high-tech. Our engineers are now looking at using more 'warm mix asphalt' to surface roads. This type of material means that it doesn't need to be heated to as higher temperature reducing the energy needed. It also allows the road to be opened quicker meaning you can get more done and don't need to wait as long before traffic can use the newly surfaced area.
The concrete screed we used on Woodstock Road provides a stronger rut resistant surface course by filling in the voids between the aggregate with concrete. While slightly more expensive initially using this on areas like bus stops and bus lanes will hopefully prevent problems such as surface rutting caused by the regular movement of heavy vehicles.
County Councillor Yvonne Constance, Cabinet member for Environment, said: "Money is a major factor when it comes to improving the condition of our roads and we need to do all we can get to get the most out of it.
"New ways of doing things need to be tested in real life situations to see how they perform. We have had some real successes which have gone from trials to business as usual, meaning our money goes further.
"One such trial has been the Paco Patch which is a system to repair the roads around loose or damaged drains and man holes. A trail last year led to some 250 Paco Patch repairs with only two problems reported.


» A High Tech Pianist for the Future?
A High Tech Pianist for the Future?
In addition to his activities on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, pianist Hugh Sung is working to explore the possibilities and creativity of modern technology in music making and performance.
He applies them, in his "Visual Recitals," to promoting and enhancing the wider understanding of music, and to actively engaging the listener at every level. "The Visual Recital" (www.visualrecital.com) is an attempt to help audiences understand and enjoy the syntax of music with visualizations that are scripted and controlled by the musician – a kind of live "Fantasia", so to speak.
Pure Data receives audio signals from an acoustic microphone, and GEM processes realtime images that react to the audio input. Music is "Vernacular Dances" by Charles B. Griffin.
Visualizing music can be particularly effective for newer contemporary works. Hope you enjoy the new video!


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Webster women's basketball wears pink to raise cancer awareness
By Jessica Karins | February 17th, 2016
Webster women's basketball players showed off pink laces, socks and headbands at the Pink game. | The Journal
Cheerleaders sported pink hairbows and pom-poms at Wednesday night's basketball games between Webster University and Blackburn College, while the women's players showed off pink laces, socks and headbands. The refs even blew pink whistles. It was a successful night for the team's fundraiser to fight breast cancer, but there were mixed results for the blue-and-gold players on the court.
The Coaches Against Cancer fundraiser was organized by the Webster University Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), whose members also volunteered at the event during both the women's and men's basketball games.
Proceeds from the evening will be donated to the American Cancer Society, SAAC Public Relations Director Alli Ferguson said. The group sold T-shirts as well as raffle tickets for a "50-50" raffle, in which the winner received half of the profits and the rest was donated. Fans could buy tickets individually or purchase a strip the length of their arms for $20.
"By the end of the game, we should have done very well," Ferguson said.
Coaches Against Cancer empowers coaches, their teams, and communities to join the fight against cancer by participating in awareness efforts, advocacy programs and fundraising activities, according to their website, cancer.org.
This is one of two breast cancer fundraisers the basketball teams will participate in this season. The official "Pink Game," which benefits the Susan G. Komen foundation, will take place on Feb. 17.
During the women's game, Coaches Against Cancer raised a total of $106 from raffle ticket sales – $53 of that went to raffle winners Michaela and Karren Rogan, who attended the game to support player Kelsey Miller.
The Webster women's basketball team established an early lead over their opponent, the Blackburn College Beavers. The Gorloks maintained a solid lead throughout all four quarters, ending with a final score of 65-27.
Head Women's Basketball Coach Jordan Olufson said he was proud of the number of players who contributed to the team's success; 15 different members of the team scored points, in addition to a combined 22 steals and 31 deflections.
"It was a group effort, and that's why we've always been so good here at Webster," Olufson said.
Senior guard Alyssa Sapp said she was proud of the team's performance and recorded her career-high at Webster in number of assists.
"We put the pressure on [the young players] and they handled it," Sapp said.
Olufson said the team hopes to continue strong and make it into the postseason.
"I'm proud of our team and our effort," he said. "Don't sleep on the Lady Loks."
Results weren't as positive during the men's game. In an inauspicious start, starter forward C.J. Moore injured his ankle only a few minutes in, returning to play only briefly in the second half. Head men's basketball coach Chris Bunch said Moore might have to sit out for a while, but shouldn't miss much of the season.
While Webster and Blackburn traded the lead in the first half, Blackburn pulled ahead to establish a lead which the Gorloks could not narrow beyond a four-point gap.
After the last thirty seconds in which both teams scored both times, the Beavers ultimately won with a score of 71-66.
Bunch said his team performed poorly, especially in comparison with their opponents.
"They played harder than we did. It was a game they had to win to stay in the race," Bunch said of Blackburn.
He plans to work on improving every aspect of the Gorloks' performance before their next game, but will concentrate on defense and especially rebounding, which he identified as a major problem.
"The number one way you defend is getting rebounds when they miss a shot," Bunch said.
The raffle ticket profits also underperformed compared to the women's game-winner Brett Jungles took home $8.
Ferguson said she was happy with the results of the fundraiser. SAAC sold almost all of their T-shirts and a good number of raffle tickets, she said.
"I'm proud that we're having two events this year," said Olufson, who has participated in the Coaches Against Cancer event during each of his nine years at Webster.
There was one final moment of triumph at the men's game, not for a current player but for fan and former Webster center Aaron Griffin.
Restaurant chain Raising Cane's held a drawing in which the person chosen would have a chance to attempt a basket from half court. Griffin's name was picked – if he made the shot, he would win a year's worth of free Raising Cane's chicken.
Griffin, who said he wasn't known for his long shots while he was on the team, nevertheless stepped forward and made the basket.
Griffin said he was excited about the prize.
"I'm a country boy, so I can eat," Griffin said.
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It's that time of year, Spring. "April showers bring May flowers" AND FLOODED BASEMENTS.
Rain is good. That's a fact. precipitation has a dramatic effect on agriculture. All plants need at least some water to survive. Plus, rain makes our lawns green right? Who doesn't want a green lawn? But, heavy precipitation can be devastating to homeowners especially those who live in or near flood plains.
Lets face it, unexpected water in your basement is not a good thing. Water can damage walls and floors, destroy carpeting and padding, ruin furniture and personal belongings, and can lead to growth of bacteria and mold. Water damage in your basement can really cause some major damage to those irreplaceable items like photo albums, antiques, and family heirlooms.
Keep this in mind…the majority of homes will end up having water in the basement at some point during the life of the home. It's not a questions of if it will happen, but its a question of when it will happen.
So…what do you do if you have water in your basement? Well, I'm glad you asked. I've compiled a list of 7 things you should do if you find water in your basement.
1. Protect Yourself. You're probably not sure what's in the water or where it came from yet. Keep in mind the potential hazards like if the water is sanitary (it could contain E. Coli, or other harmful bacteria). Or what if the water just came out of the hot water heater and is still boiling hot? Protect yourself by wearing gloves and waterproof boots. Better safe than sorry.
2. Shut off the electricity to the basement. It doesn't matter how much water you have. Water and electricity don't play well together. Water conducts electricity making it extremely dangerous and deadly. You do not want to be shocked by this reality.
3. Investigate the cause. You will need to find the cause of the water in the basement. If the flood is the result of a broken pipe, turn off the water at the shut-off valve. If the water in the basement is from a clogged drain, try to unblock or unclog the drain.
4. Air it out! You may want to open any available windows or doors to let the fresh air in. What if the water was from a sewage backup? Yea…open a window. Yuck.
5. Get it out! Do your best to remove any of the standing water from the basement or the effected areas. Shop vacs work the best if you decide to handle this task yourself. BUT, I will caution you…this can take a long time. Hiring a professional to remove the water in the basement may be your best bet. Professionals can be found in the yellow pages under "water damage" or "flood damage". If you have a water damage in Rockford, Dekalb, Naperville or any surrounding communities you can call Clean USA 877-754-1226.
6. Throw it out! When in doubt, throw it out. If you have any wet or damaged furniture, carpeting, or belongings you may want to consider throwing them out. Especially if you have decided to do the work yourself. A professional will have the tools, drying equipment, and expertise to dryout and save most if not all of your valuables.
7. Most importantly, disinfect every area. Every single area that has been touched by the water needs to be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected. This is probably the most time consuming and difficult part, BUT IT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT! You will want to start by scrubbing each area (split areas up into small sections) using hot water and a heavy duty cleaner. You don't want to take any chances of bacteria or mold growth.


The Campagnolo H11 Ultra Torque Crankset is designed with the intention of being used with the H11 groupsets, which is the Campagnolo disc brake standard. Featuring hollow carbon crank arms and a hollow spider, it provides maximum stiffness at a competitive weight.
The H11 crankset standard is required for use with H11 Ergopower shifter/brake levers for true drivetrain efficiency. The crank spider has been placed outwards from the frame to adjust for 135mm and 142mm disc brake hub spacing without needing to change the Q-factor. Campagnolo has succeeded in providing the same level of exceptional drivetrain performance as the Campagnolo rim brake groupsets.
Ultra-Torque: Campagnolo found a way to permanently conjoin the semi-axles of the bottom bracket to the respective crankset arms. This redesign made it possible to considerably reduce the lateral dimensions at the axle level and prevent annoying contact with the ankles when turning the pedals. Assembly is simplistic: one single oversize bolt is enough to integrate the two semi-axles. Regarding torque transmission efficiency, this system is equally as effective as a single piece axle. Furthermore, despite the narrow side profile, Campagnolo managed to position the bearings outside the bottom bracket shell, resulting in greater axle rigidity from the increased axle diameter. This breakthrough was obtained by using an ingenious mechanical system derived from many years' motoring experience in the rotation axle and engine shaft coupling design known as the Hirth joint.


After "Ask...Hannah" was used in the Hadassah campaign, Hannah's story was converted into a radio drama script, titled "Case History #20,000," which was to be performed by local Hadassah groups around the country. The script was sent to local Hadassah chapters around the country and leaders were directed to secure radio time for the script to be performed. Local actors would perform the script on air, including a "talented child, preferably [one] working with a dramatic group," who would act as Hannah.
The script echoes the brochure in placing Hannah's story into the service of fundraising by including the following line: "Hadassah is now engaged in a nationwide campaign to raise $1,400,000 for Youth Aliyah." Because the script was meant to be performed on local radio stations and intended to reach a much larger audience than the brochure, the language about fundraising was more general and less individualized. Nonetheless, Hannah's story was still meant to provoke an emotional reaction in listening audiences that would contribute to Hadassah's ongoing work with Jewish children.
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Janet Jackson left her fans high and dry and they're pissed about not getting concert refunds … and one of 'em is filing a class action lawsuit to get the money.
Tiana Adams filed the suit blasting Live Nation for the fact Janet's fans haven't seen a dime … even though she's postponed the Unbreakable World Tour at least 3 times.
In docs, Adams says Live Nation's trying to get away without issuing refunds by repeatedly treating the tour as "rescheduled" and not "cancelled." Janet's yet to pin down a date she'll get back on the road, except to say it will be sometime in 2017.
As we reported … Janet announced back in April 2016 she was putting her tour on hold — on doctor's orders — to make a baby. Fans are fed up and just want their money back. We reached out to Live Nation, so far no word back.
Janet is not being sued. How could they? Look at that kid!


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France Telecom Suicides Trial: Former Managers Accused of Moral Harassment
Former chief executive of France Telecom Didier Lombard and six other managers are to stand trial over a spate of suicides among their staff in the late 2000s.
French prosecutors have long claimed they presided over a culture of harassment at the company that led at least 19 employees to kill themselves.
The former managers are accused of "moral harassment".
Didier Lombard and his fellow defendants deny their tough restructuring measures in 2006 were to blame for the subsequent loss of life.
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The push for greater efficiency came two years after France Telecom was privatized. Didier Lombard was trying to cut 22,000 jobs and retrain at least 10,000 workers.
"I'll get them out one way or another, through the window or through the door," Didier Lombard was quoted as telling senior managers in 2007.
Some of France Telecom were transferred away from their families or left behind when offices were moved, or assigned demeaning jobs.
From 2008 onwards, at least 19 members of staff took their own lives, 12 attempted suicide and eight others suffered from depression and related illnesses.
Didier Lombard has accepted the restructuring upset employees but rejected the idea that it led to people taking their own lives.
France Telecom became Orange in 2013.
An Orange spokesman said in response to news of the trial: "As it has always said, Orange rejects the accusations and will make its case during the public hearing which will be scheduled in the coming months."
If found guilty, Didier Lombard and the other defendants could face two years in prison and 30,000 euros ($35,000) in fines.
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US-based investment bank Morgan Stanley is looking to ramp up its offering for Chinese entrepreneurs looking to launch family offices in Singapore.
PBI has found family offices in Singapore and Hong Kong are opening in record numbers as demand increases among wealthy expatriates.
The bank's Singapore wealth unit is currently led by Wee Yee Yeong, who was recruited recently.
Plans are also on to hire more relationship managers in Singapore as well as Hong Kong, Chui stated.
In a separate Bloomberg Television interview, Chui revealed that Singapore is favoured over Hong Kong as an ideal base to establish family offices.
According to Chui, the affluent operate more on an individual basis in Hong Kong.
Chui further stated that IPOs managed by Morgan Stanley made the affluent wealthier.
"We would like to position ourselves as a firm-wide partner to our customers," he stated.
During IPOs, the bank brings in bankers from the investment banking and wealth space to help clients gain insight on the impact of the listing on their finances and family requirements, Chui noted.
The bank is said to have managed over 20 offshore IPOs for Chinese private firms in the previous year.
Private banks in the region are beefing up their family office departments ahead of such demand. Citigroup, Credit Suisse, HSBC, and UBS have all said they are looking to expand their family office services in 2019.


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Immigration Policy and Political Propaganda in the Bahamas
by Larry Smith
The recent controversy over Immigration policy is clear evidence of the inability of Bahamian governments to rationally tackle the core issues that hold our economy back.
As Franklyn Wilson noted, the country's overall approach to immigration was settled as far back as the early 1970s, and yet we can still waste time over it today. The issue was put to rest by the implementation of a strict Bahamianisation policy by the new PLP government, accompanied by a massive investment in education.
These two policy shifts reversed a trend towards the wholesale recruitment of expatriates, and broadened educational opportunities for Bahamians who could then expand the nation's middle class.
As the late Dr Keva Bethel described the period immediately following the Second World War: "The highest forms of employment to which the majority of Bahamians were likely to be able to aspire...were posts in the civil service, teaching, nursing, or the church. Moreover, only a proportionately modest number actually achieved those positions."
But in the first years after majority rule in 1967, the government spent as much as 19 per cent of the annual budget on education, building new schools throughout the country to provide better education for all Bahamian children.
As access to full secondary education expanded, Bethel wrote, "more Bahamians (were able) to enter areas of work that had formerly been closed to them—both in the public sector and in the rapidly developing private sector—and to proceed to tertiary-level education both at home and abroad."
This new approach to immigration was advertised by the extension of controls over the city of Freeport in 1970. Amid fears over abrogation of the Hawksbill Creek Agreement, the PLP government insisted on exercising final control over all work permit holders in Freeport.
In 1969 Prime Minister Lynden Pindling made his famous "bend or break" speech on Grand Bahama: "In this city, where, regrettably, almost anything goes, where, promisingly, some economic opportunities have come to Bahamians, Bahamians are nevertheless still the victims of an unbending social order, which, if it now refuses to bend, must be broken," he said.
The new Immigration law that followed nullified the relevant clauses in the Hawksbill Creek Agreement, and asserted the government's sole control over immigration matters. This dramatic action in Freeport set the tone for the government's medium-term approach to immigration throughout the country.
And a 1971 royal commission headed by a West Indian former chief justice reaffirmed the government's right to control immigration policy, both for reasons of national security and to give job priority to qualified Bahamians.
What followed was a vigorous campaign to Bahamianise the work force, which affected large numbers of expatriate teachers and other professionals. And the Independence constitution was designed to restrict the right of those born in the Bahamas to become citizens, which affected many Haitian and West Indian migrants, while many white residents who held Bahamian status were also denied citizenship.
This protectionism fuelled a perception that the government's policy was capricious and arbitrary. Stories abounded of bribes paid for work permits, businesses harassed by officials, residents humiliated for no reason, and deals made with favoured expatriates. In other words, immigration policy became overtly political and counter-productive.
Although the initial policy goals may have been rational, there was little doubt that the government's ideological intransigence and protected inefficiency contributed to a decline in investor confidence and a fall-off in development during the 1970s, when many out island resorts and other businesses closed. Global turmoil and high inflation sparked by the 1973 Arab oil embargo also played a major role in the economic downturn.
Another consequence of the immigration crackdown was the impact it had on education. The government wanted to improve, as well as to Bahamianise, the system. According to historian Michael Craton (himself a former teacher at the Government High School), "There was a rapid expansion of secondary schools on New Providence, a stronger emphasis on technical training, and attempts were made to increase the relevance and Bahamian content of the curriculum."
Unfortunately, as the economic boom of the 60s turned into the slump of the 70s, problems were created by the speed of this expansion, and the subsequent underfunding that it produced. By all accounts, the overwhelming problem was the shortage of "willing and able Bahamian teachers", which led to a lowering of educational standards. This is the same critical problem we face today - 40 years later.
The 2012 Labour Force Survey put the Bahamian workforce at 192,205. With unemployment around 14 per cent and youth unemployment at almost 30 per cent, there is no denying we have a serious social and economic problem on our hands.
However, a recent Inter American Development Bank report identified a massive skills shortage in the country. This skills gap is expected to become more acute as new investments come on stream, something which the prime minister has already acknowledged. The inevitable result of a skills gap is high unemployment among poorly educated workers and young people.
So the IDB report concluded that training and education can drive our economic and social growth.
The latest work permit figures we have are from the last administration, which reported 7,091 permits approved in 2011 - less than 5 per cent of the labour force. More than half of these were for housekeepers and handymen. Typically, the current administration has provided no numbers or background information to help illuminate this debate.
But there are a lot of resentful anecdotes out there in social media land about super-qualified, degree-holding Bahamians who are unable to get a job in their own country. Clearly, those stories need to be verified, and when they are we should have a serious conversation about that.
I dare say there are abuses to the immigration laws, just as there are abuses to every other law in the country. I also think it is clear that education and social issues have a lot more to do with the jobless rate than a few foreigners who may be partying down at our expense.
We know, for example, that Atlantis employs over 8,000 people but only 74 are on work permits, which is less than the number permitted by the Heads of Agreement Perry Christie negotiated in his last term. And Atlantis has had to spend more than $20 million on training, while the recent IDB study reported that more than half of all businesses in the country also support training programmes.
The total lack of facts, perspective and logic in this important national debate is most unsettling. But here is what Immigration Minister Fred Mitchell had to say recently: the current immigration policy is the same as the previous immigration policy. The only difference is tone and application. And since immigration policy is applied by the government, if egregious abuses exist, we know exactly where to look.
It's like licensing the number houses every year for 20 years, and then accusing them of operating illegally.
For example, if a major hotel makes speaking Russian a requirement for dealing with American guests (as one commenter alleged on Facebook recently), I am certain that the officers in the Immigration and Labour Departments are smart enough to spot such a glaring discrepancy and deal with it upfront - without launching a belated police action to take someone into custody in front of hotel guests.
But according to Mitchell, no-one should criticise this "shoot first and ask questions later" policy on the part of his officers, who are only doing their job. What a ludicrous position to take. It is the job of the Immigration Department to know the status of all expatriates in the community - since they are the ones who vet them. There should be no need to ask permit holders what their status is.
That brings us to the question of why this issue is being pushed so vehemently now, when the basic issues were settled decades ago. Well, the new government faces a long uphill struggle to expand economic opportunities for Bahamians. And fixing the education system will not have an impact for years (although the education minister has commendably put together a bi-partisan committee to look at the problem).
So the easiest way to assuage the demand for jobs in a difficult economic climate is to make a play on the words "putting Bahamians first". This is what Mitchell's hardline talk is all about. Indeed, we believe it goes further than that. He is staking out his strategy for the PLP's pending leadership succession.
As we know, different ministers have had different and often contradictory things to say about immigration policy, among other policies. In fact, it is difficult to discern the outlines of any government policy today, because cabinet ministers appear to be operating independently.
However, there is one thing we are sure of - reverting to the Pindling era of political intimidation and racial hostility is no recipe for either economic development or social equity. It is so easy for cynical politicians to spout aggressive propaganda with no constructive engagement, but where will that get the rest of us in the end?
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...after 40 years, no change; politics as usual!
Posted by: Harcourt Bethel | May 07, 2013 at 07:40 PM
It would be interesting to know how many work permits are issued for Government employees besides teachers. Judges, Doctors, Lawyers, Directors etc, etc.
Posted by: Rick Lowe | May 08, 2013 at 08:03 AM
Succinct and beautifully constructed/constructive article. There are many Bahamians eager to engage in the sensible and constructive debate.
Posted by: Sherry Albury | May 08, 2013 at 01:45 PM
There are a number of qualified young Bahamians who cannot find a job in this country -- but the problem is far less likely to be immigrants holding those jobs and far more likely to be the pervasive and general lack of vision throughout this nation, which has not invested, either on a public or a private scale, in industries other than real estate, banking, finance, and the ubiquitous tourism. There is a knowledge and skills gap at work which means that those young Bahamians who have qualifications that would enable them to work in/invest in/develop other sectors of the economy -- for instance, marine science fuelled by agencies other than mega-resorts, for instance, or sustainable development, or agriculture, or maritime law, or international relations, or the cultural industries, or scientific research, or aeronautical studies, or cyber studies, or any of the other thousands of industries we do not make room for in our nation -- those young Bahamians are unemployed and even unemployable in our country. And the difference between them and the generation before: they are not going into teaching. Instead, they are leaving. It's not the expatriates who are at fault here; rather, it's the generation of Bahamians who think that the world stops where it did when they came of age in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Immigration is the symptom. Our small minds are the problem.
Posted by: Nicobet | May 09, 2013 at 09:22 AM
And does political tribalism play a role?
Posted by: larry smith | May 09, 2013 at 09:33 AM
If you're asking me, then the answer is that political tribalism plays a role but far less today than it did under our fathers' PLP (and FNM). Tribalism or no, young Bahamians are disadvantaged more than any other group of Bahamians for the reasons I mentioned above. They are our most qualified and best educated group of Bahamians and the most underemployed, for many of the above reasons. The rest of us are stuck on the Stafford Sands model of our economy; they have moved beyond that. We have yet to design the society in which they have their place.
Well that's a chicken and egg conundrum. The intellectually maligned "sands model" has conferred enviable prosperity on the Bahamas compared with the rest of the region for many decades. Our grandfathers would not have conceived of such prosperity, white or black. And if there is a better model - or a more promising business option - why don't we move in that direction?
I agree that in some things an accommodating government policy framework is necessary (such as renewable energy). I also agree that incentives can be given in some cases. And setting realistic goals would be a good thing too.
What will the Bahamas at 40 committee be doing in this regard?
Are the inequities in our society the result of our economic model? What would change if we tried to encourage the activities you suggest?
Posted by: larry smith | May 09, 2013 at 12:31 PM
When one applies for a business license these days and the form asks for the nature of the business, is there a place for "Other" yet?
Posted by: drew Roberts | May 15, 2013 at 01:32 PM
"There are a number of qualified young Bahamians who cannot find a job in this country -- but the problem is far less likely to be immigrants holding those jobs and far more likely to be the pervasive and general lack of vision throughout this nation, which has not invested, either on a public or a private scale, in industries other than real estate, banking, finance, and the ubiquitous tourism. "
This is unbelievably dead on. The idea that there are qualified Bahamians unable to find jobs is certainly not a social media myth because I have been living that for the last 6 months since I returned home for the first time in about a decade and I know of many others who are underemployed for the reasons expressed above. The most common greeting I have gotten since returning home is, "go back!". Finding a job for the sake of a job is easy; creating a career in the Bahamas can be incredibly hard outside of the typical job scope. The other pervading issue is the accessibility to opportunities as "who you know" still takes precedence. The company website for one of the jobs I applied to still reads "no job opportunities available". I only knew of the opportunities because I was fortune enough to know someone in the organization and found out there were 3 positions available in the department of interest. So I sometimes scratch my head when I hear the business community complain about the lack of skilled Bahamians when they do not take a proactive approach in the recruiting process and still only advertise jobs in newspapers like it's the 1990s. I had two offers in a foreign country within a week of graduating from grad school because it was accessible. This is one of the reasons why we have a human capital flight problem in the region. The appointments by the PLP post-election further shows that there isn't a concerted effort to "bridge the gap" for the long term sustainability of the Bahamas. Fresh ideas, innovation & entrepreneurship is unfortunately not celebrated here, it is stifled.
Some of the things I would like to see done:
Smaller government by getting rid of the main boondoggle government agencies and privatizing them.
Reduce the amount of MPs twiddling thumbs.
Appoint Senators who are the future visionary leaders of the country rather than the rejects of the party.
Restructure our education system by implementing a combination of ideas suggested by The Coalition for Education Reform so that we can shift into a knowledge based economy to complement our service sector and diversify our labour market. (eg. voucher programs possibly starting in the family islands as trial(Special Education Zones) and add vocational education streams with a general academic base and a entrepreneurship focus; connect with independent contractors, plumbers etc. etc. to set up apprenticeship programs upon successful completion.
Digitize...Digitize...Digitize like its 2013
Stop pandering to the voters about creating jobs when we know governments do not create job, private firms do. Promote entrepreneurship and make the process and regulatory environment for entrepreneurial activity and investment more efficient in order to absorb shocks to the economy.
Set term limits for elected officials, to reduce corruption
Freedom of Information - transparency
Implement community policing initiatives (something similar to Chiles Safer Communes program)
Promote the civil liberties of all Bahamians regardless of religion, ethnicity, social class and sexual orientation
Land registry and properly securing property taxes before thinking of implementing consumption taxes.
explore renewable energy opportunities to reduce oil dependency, starting with regulating net metering and net billing
Legalize webshop gambling, because at this point its just silly not to.
Proper drainage systems in residential areas.
I believe a more free society will create wealth rather than jobs, which would improve the quality of living and reduce interpersonal violence, nothing is isolated.
Posted by: Lotus | May 23, 2013 at 12:08 PM
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Largest International Group of Rights Lawyers Takes on Morong 43 Case
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"I'll keep mentioning this case to the President…It's just a matter of time, you can expect some action," Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said when asked about the Morong 43 case. "It's the case I would want to focus on after the [IRRC]," De Lima said, referring to the Incident Report and Review Committee on the Aug. 23 hostage taking incident.
MANILA — An international group of human rights lawyers met with Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, Sept. 15 to raise their concerns over the continuing detention of 43 health workers.
The 43 health workers, now known as the Morong 43, were arrested by combined elements of the police and military on Feb. 6 in Morong, Rizal. Slapped with illegal possession of firearms and explosives, the 43 were tagged as members of the New People's Army.
Thirty-seven of them have been transferred to Camp Bagong Diwa since May 1 while five remained in military captivity in Camp Capinpin, Tanay, Rizal.
The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL), the world's oldest and biggest organization of human rights lawyers in the world with members in 90 countries, decided to take the case of the Morong 43 as one of its major international campaigns. The IADL is a non-government organization with consultative status to the Economic Social Council (ECOSOC) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
IADL President Jeanne Mirer shakes hand with Justice Secretary Leila de Lima.(Photo by Raymund B. Villanueva / bulatlat.com)
"We believe that based on the established facts and the credible and consistent reports, some universal legal precepts were violated in their arrest, search and continued detention. We wish to register our alarm over reports of their torture and inhuman treatment in the hands of the Philippine state forces," the IADL said in a statement, referring to the Morong 43 case.
"We are very upset. The detention and the violations [committed against the Morong 43] are very disturbing to us," Jeanne Mirer, IADL president, said.
"We understand your concern," De Lima told the nine-member IADL delegation "We are reviewing the case," she said. De Lima added that she was tasked by President Benigno S. Aquino III to review the Morong 43 case and submit recommendations.
De Lima, former chairwoman of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), held public hearings regarding complaints of human rights violations filed by the 43 health workers.
"I know the violations. I know how defective the arrest was. I know that the warrant [of arrest] was patently defective on its face," De Lima said.
The search warrant used for the Feb. 6 raid was issued against a certain Mario Condes who was not among the 43 arrested and who had never been found. During one of the hearings conducted by the CHR, police and military officers admitted they did not pursue searching for Condes.
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima vows to review the Morong 43 case before a delegation of international group of human rights lawyers.(Photo by Raymund B. Villanueva / bulatlat.com)
"I'll keep mentioning this case to the President…It's just a matter of time, you can expect some action," De Lima said. "It's the case I would want to focus on after the [IRRC]," de Lima said, referring to the Incident Report and Review Committee on the Aug. 23 hostage taking incident.
After the Court of Appeals denied the petition for writ of habeas corpus filed by the lawyers of the Morong 43 on the basis of a martial law doctrine, they filed an appeal before the Supreme Court. The high court has not issued any notice since the appeal was filed in March.
Edre Olalia, one of the legal counsels of the Morong 43 and a bureau member of the IADL, told De Lima that they received reports that the case has been relegated to the division level. "Our position is that it should be heard en banc since there are issues of constitutionality," Olalia said.
Meanwhile, the Morong Regional Trial Court is handling the criminal charges against the 43 health workers.
Vijander Jain, second vice president of the IADL, told De Lima that he has high hopes that the case of the Morong 43 would be acted upon. He said De Lima's former stint at the CHR gives more credibility to the DOJ.
"It's probably an advantage on my side that I came from the CHR," De Lima replied, adding that she is aware of the expectations.
Jan Fermon, also a bureau member of the IADL, raised concerns over the non-distinction between combatants and civilians by the government and its security forces in the implementation of its counterinsurgency program. De Lima agreed that legal harassment was one of the strategies used before. She said she would block any endorsement of a similar policy.
IADL members are set to visit the Morong 43 detainees at Camp Bagong Diwa on Sept. 20. They are here in the country to attend the Fifth Conference of Lawyers in Asia Pacific (COLAP V) to be held on Sept. 18 to 19. (Bulatlat.com)
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Getting fired for posts on Facebook or Twitter has become so common that it almost seems old hat.
But human ingenuity — or foolishness — and evolving social media technologies guarantee that people will find new ways to post their way out of a job. Look at what some are doing on Instagram.
A quick Web search shows people who post personally identifiable information, show or say where they work, and use the tag #worksucks, #calledinsick or, even better #hatemyboss. Many didn't respond to AOL Jobs' request for comments, so it's not clear if their managers have seen these posts yet.
About three weeks ago,... a photo of a bill for $53.80 from a customer with an Indian surname was posted on the fumanchu85 Instagram account. The bill shows that customer tipped $5.20, or less than 10 percent. Fumanchu85 wrote: "What do you expect from a last name like that?" Then fumanchu85 wrote a derogatory term followed by #cheap #jew.
A sushi chef at the restaurant, who seemed to defend the manager in comments on a local newspaper's website, was also fired.
You might think that enough examples of employees being fired for Facebook posts might have convinced people to be more careful on Instagram, but apparently not. It may be that, despite a large number of users, people may think that Instagram flies further under the radar.
But it clearly doesn't, as a staff member, whose name hasn't been released, at an assisted living home in Deer Creek, Minn. learned. He was fired after reportedly taking a picture of a resident on the toilet and then posting it to Instagram. According to the Minnesota Department of Health, which publicly addressed the situation late in May, the resident showed skin to the upper hip and didn't know about the picture.
Someone not employed at the facility saw the picture and reported it on April 17. The staff person admitted the incident, according to news reports. The employee handbook reportedly expressly forbids taking a picture of a client.
The number of cases will likely only increase, as the number of people essentially begging to be fired grows. Soccer player Sebastien Bassong got into hot water with his team last month when he posted pictures of himself with guns on Instagram and quickly deleted them. Replacing Bassong would be anything but a casual effort.
However, you must wonder about the wisdom of many who post how much they dislike their jobs. An Instagram user, kingleno1620, for instance, posted a photo of someone's sneakers on a table filled with beer bottles; the hashtag was #calledinsick. Another user posted a photo of herself smiling, giving the finger, with the hashtags #nurse, #hatemyboss #nurse #tired.
Maybe some of these people should check for Instagram's engraved "fire me" invitation filter.


How do organisms arrive on isolated islands, and how do insular evolutionary radiations arise? In a recent paper, Wilmé et al. (2016a) argue that early Austronesians that colonized Madagascar from Southeast Asia translocated giant tortoises to islands in the western Indian Ocean. In the Mascarene Islands, moreover, the human-translocated tortoises then evolved and radiated in an endemic genus (Cylindraspis). Their proposal ignores the broad, established understanding of the processes leading to the formation of native island biotas, including endemic radiations. We find Wilmé et al.'s suggestion poorly conceived, using a flawed methodology and missing two critical pieces of information: the timing and the specifics of proposed translocations. In response, we here summarize the arguments that could be used to defend the natural origin not only of Indian Ocean giant tortoises but also of scores of insular endemic radiations world-wide. Reinforcing a generalist's objection, the phylogenetic and ecological data on giant tortoises, and current knowledge of environmental and palaeogeographical history of the Indian Ocean, make Wilmé et al.'s argument even more unlikely.


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Health aide helps elderly couple escape Shelton fire
Published 12:00 am EDT, Friday, October 8, 2010
SHELTON -- An elderly couple escaped injury Thursday after a fire erupted in the basement of their condo on Nells Rock Road, thanks to the help of a health aide who saw smoke and led them to safety.
Firefighters were called to 45 Greystone Condominiums at 5:50 p.m.
Fire Marshal James Tortora said the owners of the condo, Henry and Lois Kuba, both use walkers. He credited their aide Lisa Torres and her daughter with helping them get out of the structure.
Tortora said, "If it hadn't been for them, it could have been a lot worse. It could have been a tragedy."
He said Torres "discovered smoke coming up through the floors." He said the unit quickly filled with smoke that was coming through the heat registers. The fire started in a dehumidifier in the basement, Tortora said.
Damage was estimated at $150,000, he said. The occupants were not able to remain in the home and are staying with friends, Tortora said.
All four Shelton fire companies responded to the blaze and they remained on scene until 9 p.m. The department received mutual aid from Derby, Trumbull and Monroe fire departments, Tortora said.


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The City Has Many Faces, a love story about Mexico City by George Polley is on Amazon
I am so thrilled to share George Polley's new release, "The City Has Many Faces, a love story about Mexico City."
I am a fan of George's poetry and and even bigger fan of the man he is. He is charming with much wisdom behind his powerful words. I was so excited to get my hands on this book!
"The City Has Many Faces, a love story about Mexico City."
"When Minnesotan Joseph Manning arrives in Mexico City, he experiences a world that is beyond anything he has imagined, a city with an audible heartbeat, a deep-down throbbing that comes from deep beneath the great city twenty-four hours a day. It is also a city of haunted houses, a museum filled with ghosts, an elderly Indian shaman, Aztec ruins, mystery, a brutal cop nicknamed "Snake" that runs a protection racket, laughter and romance. And for Joseph Manning, it is ultimately a love story with a beautiful young woman named Lisa who will not let him go."
I am so inspired by this man that I couldn't let him walk away without a few questions. Here you go…
(BP) What inspired you to write this story?
(GP) A trip to Mexico City in November, 1973. I'd never been in such a place, sitting high up in the Valley of Mexico surrounded by mountains, its history going back at least a thousand years before the first European settlers arrived on the continent. I spent weeks walked around mesmerized, soaking up everything I could: sights, sounds, smells, tastes, places, streams of traffic and people. When I returned to the US two months later, I read everything I could on Mexico City's history. After all these years, the city is still magical. Finally, after forty years, I've written the story the way I've always wanted to tell it."
(BP) That is so wonderful! Makes me want to go there too George. What are your greatest passions?
(GP) People (with all their quirks, foibles and graces, their laughter, tears, silliness and seriousness. Everything about them.
(BP) I love that. What a great answer. Thank you. Have you published before? If not, why now?
(GP) Yes. A short story, "Jonah's Birth", was published in "The South Dakota Review" in 1970 This was followed by poetry and short stories published in "Crow's Nest," "Expanding Horizons," "The Lake Street Review," "Wine Rings," "North American Mentor Magazine," "Tower Talks," "Sherlock Holmes in a Flash; new short Holmes stores", "McLean County (Illinois) Poetry Review," and "A Rainbow Feast: New Asian Short Stories," edited by Mohammad A. Quayum and published by Marshall Cavendish Editions, Singapore in 2010.
"The Old Man and The Monkey, a story of a friendship" was published in 2010, "Grandfather and The Raven" in 2010, and "Bear, a story about a boy and his unusual dog" was published in 2012. A poetry collection, "Seeing: collected poems 1973-1999" appeared in 2000.
(BP) You have been around! That is so good. One thing I know most of us are curious about is what are you doing in Japan? What prompted you to move there?
(GP) When I retired from the mental health field at the end of 2007, my wife and I flew from our home in Seattle to Japan to visit her family. By the time we returned in mid-January, we had purchased a condominium in Sapporo, and moved here at the end of March.
(BP) That is so good. You must like it there! So nice of you to move closer to the family. What would your wife say is your best attribute?
(GP) I understand people I am kind, and I have a good heart.
(BP) From my experience with you, I have got to agree with that assessment. Okay, last question my friend.
What's next for George Polley?
(GP) I am not entirely sure, other than republishing three of my books, plus another children's book about the dog named bear. The new one is a mystery, titled "Bear in Trouble, an Andy and Bear Mystery." When Bear is accused of biting an elderly man, it is up to Andy and his pals to discover who the man is, where he is (he seems to have disappeared), and clear Bear's name. At this point, I'm giving myself a bit of a rest, so I'm not thinking of any projects, though I do have several that I may work on later next year.
(BP) I was excited to read what you put out into the universe. Your stories are really captivating. So grateful that you could share some of your story with us today. I love your answers! Oh and good wishes on your latest release. I just finished The City Has Many Faces!
"Mexico City is alive, and it is awake. Does it ever sleep? Anyone you ask will tell you that it does not."
"The City Has Many Faces" by George Polley is a delightful book of stories filled with true life force and passion.
From the first page this story comes alive. With great verve the author writes a story with genuine enthusiasm that at the same time has great entertainment value. The words just seem to flow off the page as I am instantly transported to this lively place, Mexico City. I could almost see the landscaping with all the traffic and buzz and smell the exotic foods playing around with my senses. Not only is this city alive but so is the authors easy writing style.
I honestly did not know what to expect other than the fact that I really enjoyed Mr. Polley's beautiful poetry.
Until early 2008, George Polley fit his writing around a busy mental health career, from which he retired at the end of 2007. From Seattle, Washington (US), he and his wife moved to Sapporo, Japan, in early 2008, where he writes full-time. His novella "The Old Man and The Monkey", was published in 2010, and two novels, "Grandfather and The Raven" (2010) and "Bear", a novel about a boy and his unusual dog, were published in 2010 and 2012. He has recently published "The City Has Many Faces, a love story about Mexico City," published by Tortoise & Hare Publications.
He has been writing and publishing fiction and poetry since the early 1970s. Originally from Seattle, WA, he and his wife live in Sapporo, Japan, moving there in early 2008.
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz ist ein mexikanischer Historienfilm aus dem Jahr 1935. Die Regie führte Ramón Peón, der auch am Drehbuch mitschrieb und den Schnitt vornahm. Der Film erzählt die Geschichte von Juana de Asbaje, die im Mexiko des 17. Jahrhunderts lebte. Sie ist eine talentierte und intelligente Frau, die nach weiterer Bildung strebt. Deshalb zieht sie in die Hauptstadt, wo sie an der Universität studiert. Juana de Asbaje zieht die Aufmerksamkeit des Schürzenjägers Lisardo auf sich und auch die ihres Tutors Feliciano. Ersterer möchte sie verführen und anschließend entführen. Feliciano möchte dies verhindern und fordert Lisardo zum Duell, in dem er jedoch getötet wird. Daraufhin verlässt Lisardo das Land. Nach diesem Vorfall spricht der Erzbischof mit Juana und überzeugt sie, ihre einzige Möglichkeit wäre, in den Konvent einzutreten. So wird sie zu Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz und verbringt den Rest ihres Lebens damit, literarische Werke zu verfassen.

Der Film wurde von der Gesellschaft La Mexicana produziert. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz wurde auch in den Vereinigten Staaten aufgeführt. Das vorklösterliche Leben von Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz wurde 1939 in dem größtenteils fiktionalen Film El secreto de la monja ebenfalls behandelt.

Literatur
 David E. Wilt: "The Mexican Filmography 1916 through 2001". McFarland & Co Inc, Jefferson NC 2004. ISBN 978-0-7864-6122-6

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Computer Sciences Corp., El Segundo, Calif., won a $27 million task order from the Internal Revenue Service to modify the agency's Customer Account Data Engine to handle new tax laws.
The centerpiece of the IRS' new IT system, CADE will replace the old master file of all taxpayers' account records. The new system's first release is due in September.


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Commission Decision of 10 May 2007 on State aid C 2/06 (ex N 405/05) which Greece is planning to implement for the early voluntary retirement scheme of OTE (notified under document number C(2007) 1436) (Only the Greek version is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (2008/722/EC)
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There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Commission Decision of 10 May 2007 on State aid C 2/06 (ex N 405/05) which Greece is planning to implement for the early voluntary retirement scheme of OTE (notified under document number C(2007) 1436) (Only the Greek version is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (2008/722/EC), Article 1.
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The 4 % shareholding in OTE that the Greek State is planning to transfer to TAP-OTE, provided that its value does not exceed, on the day of the transfer, the amount of EUR 390,4 million, constitutes aid which is compatible with the common market within the meaning of Article 87(3)(c).
Should the value of the 4 % shareholding of OTE that the Greek State is planning to transfer to TAP-OTE exceed, on the date of the transfer, the amount of EUR 390,4 million, Greece shall take all necessary measures to ensure that TAP-OTE will not receive any amount in excess of EUR 390,4 million.
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According to sources the film will be helmed by Mudassar Aziz, who also directed the original film. Excited Sonakshi took to her social media handle to announce it to her fans.
Furthermore it was stated that Happy Bhag Jayegi which was released on August 18, 2016, featuring Diana Penty, Ali Fazal and Abhay Deol. Diana, who played the lead role in the first part, also took to twitter to share her joy as she posted, "Happy days are here again. Keep watching for more details about her movie at the earliest.


When you think of a safe, you think exactly that: something that is inherently safe (because it protects, you know, money and other valuables). Traditional safes may have hardly been considered "secure," but their computerized counterparts — so-called smart safes — may be even less secure.
The Brink's CompuSafe Galileo has a design flaw that has left it vulnerable to theft. A simple thumb drive is all that a clever (and tech-savvy) thief needs to break open the safe and take off with the cash inside.
First, some background information on the centuries-old company, Brink's. The company isn't a safe manufacturer per se, but rather, a money-transporting service. One of the many services Brink's offers is retail back office, which includes CompuSafe. You can find CompuSafe being used in countless restaurants and retailers nationwide. It's a place for a store to put their cash during the day, rather than keeping it in a till.
There are many flaws in the hardware, software, and configuration of CompuSafe's Galileo model. For this blog post, we will focus on the main flaw that makes the exploit possible. This safe's design includes a USB port on its exterior. While intended for use just by Brink's technicians, the USB port doubles (for thieves) as a backdoor into the safe's cash.
And this is where you hack it.
If a potential thief wanted to pull off the Great Safe Robbery, he would simply need to walk up to the Galileo with a USB thumb drive scripted to automate hacking the safe. Once it was plugged in, he would just have to wait 60 seconds for the safe to open its doors.
In no time, he'll have taken the money and will be on his merry way to a private island in the shape of Scrooge McDuck.
Of course, while the thief is preparing to disappear into the sunset, he can use a few more simple commands to erase all details of this transaction from the safe's system. You see, both Brink's and the bank trust the smart safe to faithfully report its cash totals and event logs. By hijacking the operating system of the safe itself, he can make the safe report anything he wants. It will then be like the theft never even occurred — and, as a result, that the money was never placed in there to begin with.
Now, you are probably wondering how businesses can protect their CompuSafe Galileos. You are probably hoping there is a dependable, foolproof panacea. Well, unless you want to stick a wad of chewed-up gum in the safe's USB port (not a good idea), there isn't much anyone— other than Brink's and the manufacturer — can do.
If your business relies on the CompuSafe Galileo models, there are some small steps you can take to be proactive. Be extremely protective – and selective – when it comes to the safe. Keep close surveillance on the safe by whatever means necessary (Dobermans, crocodiles, moats, etc.) Ensure that only the employees who absolutely require access are permitted anywhere near the safe. Perhaps consider buying a larger safe to store your safe.
Most importantly, do not place too much trust in your safe. Realize that it is a vulnerable device, and that you need to be diligent at all times.
The smart safe, CompuSafe Galileo, is susceptible to hijacking via maliciously programmed thumb drives plugged into its exterior USB port. After plugging in the thumb drive, the thief can fully take over the safe, open its doors, and steal the money it shelters. The thief can even take steps to expunge record of the money having been in the safe, making the hack more disturbing.
Although it's uncertain what will happen next with this particular smart safe, this scenario reads like an Aesop's fable for the digital age. Are we placing too much trust into smart devices? In our Internet of Things world, everything from toilets to toasters to safes is interconnected.
Is this really a good thing? Does every object demand networking?
In the instance of the CompuSafe Galileo, digitalization hasn't magically rendered it more secure. Rather, it's accomplished the exact opposite: It's turned a safe into an (un)safe.
Dan Petro and Oscar Salazar will present their research on this subject at DEF CON 23 on Aug. 8, 2015. For more information on their talk, visit here.


Here are 35 week pictures. I think I've grown a lot in the last few weeks and am super uncomfortable. He's probably not too comfortable either as he's starting to feel squished!
That top picture looks like you just stuffed your shirt with something. Are you sure you're pregnant?
I second that. You are ALL baby this time, girl! Nice work!
About the Christmas cards- I have an agreement with the mister that I do mass christmas cards every other year. This year is grandparents/parents/siblings only. Bummer. But NEXT year, you better plan on it! And then two years after that, and so on. Do you hate me now?
you are sitting pretty high! Not long now!
It's almost over!! I bet you are so excited. I still have five more months, which seems like an eternity.