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Singapore MAS Bans DBS Wealth Manager 10 Years for Fraud & Dishonesty, Transferred $490,000 to Personal Bank Account for Online Gambling
Singapore | Leading financial centre in Asia
19th March 2022 | Singapore
Singapore Central Bank Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has issued a 10-year ban (Prohibition Order) on former DBS Bank Wealth Planning Manager Loh Thim Mun Marcus, effective on 16th March 2022 for fraud & dishonesty by transferring $490,000 to his personal bank account and using some of the money to purchase virtual credits on an unlawful gambling site. Between October & November 2018, Marcus Loh (DBS Bank Wealth Planning Manager) had deceived 7 clients into transferring $490,000 to his personal bank account, on the pretext that the funds are being placed in DBS fixed deposits, or participating in DBS share ownership scheme and issuing forged letter for placement confirmation. On 6th January 2021, Marcus Loh was convicted of cheating and forgery offences under the Penal Code, and an offence of using the benefits of his criminal conduct under the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act, and sentenced to 33 months imprisonment. Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS): "Mr Loh's actions have given MAS reason to believe that he will not perform financial advisory and capital markets services honestly. While Mr Loh is no longer an appointed representative in Singapore, the Prohibition Orders were issued against him to safeguard the integrity of Singapore's financial sector."
" Singapore MAS Bans DBS Wealth Manager 10 Years for Fraud & Dishonesty, Transferred $490,000 to Personal Bank Account for Online Gambling "
MAS Official Statement
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has issued ten-year prohibition orders (POs) against Mr Loh Thim Mun Marcus, a former wealth planning manager with DBS Bank Pte Ltd (DBS). The POs, which took effect on 16 March 2022, were issued following his convictions in the State Courts for offences involving fraud or dishonesty, namely cheating, forgery and using the benefits of his criminal conduct.
Under the POs, Mr Loh is prohibited from (i) providing any financial advisory services, or taking part in the management of, acting as a director of, or becoming a substantial shareholder of any financial advisory firm under the Financial Advisers Act 2001; and (ii) performing any regulated activity or from taking part in the management, acting as a director, or becoming a substantial shareholder of any capital markets services firm under the Securities and Futures Act 2001.
Between October and November 2018, while Mr Loh was a representative of DBS, he deceived seven clients into transferring a total of $490,000 to his personal bank account. Mr Loh had falsely informed some of these clients that their monies were being placed in fixed deposit accounts with DBS. Mr Loh also told a client that he could participate in a DBS share ownership scheme through Mr Loh and forged a letter confirming the placement of the client's monies in the scheme. Mr Loh used part of the monies to purchase virtual credits on an unlawful gambling site.
On 6 January 2021, Mr Loh was convicted of cheating and forgery offences under the Penal Code, and an offence of using the benefits of his criminal conduct under the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act. He was sentenced to 33 months imprisonment.
Mr Loh's actions have given MAS reason to believe that he will not perform financial advisory and capital markets services honestly. While Mr Loh is no longer an appointed representative in Singapore, the POs were issued against him to safeguard the integrity of Singapore's financial sector.
Section 420 of the Penal Code (Cap. 224, Rev Ed 2008)
Under this section, whoever cheats and thereby dishonestly induces the person deceived to deliver or cause the delivery of any property to any person, or to make, alter or destroy the whole or any part of a valuable security, or anything which is signed or sealed, and which is capable of being converted into a valuable security, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Under this section, whoever commits forgery shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to four years, or with a fine, or with both.
Section 47(1)(c) punishable under section 47(6)(a) of the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act (Cap. 65A, Rev Ed 2000)
Under this section, any person who acquires, possesses or uses any property which is, or in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, represents, his benefits from criminal conduct shall be punished with a fine not exceeding $500,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years or to both.
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The International Thespian Society
Joe Kelly, Features
In the North Hills, a number of Honors Societies have been created over the past few years. First, there was the National Honors Society, of course, and then the inclusion of the Honors Societies of the French and German National Honors Societies. Before this, there was a National Honors Society for the theatre, but then it was sadly taken away from the school. You would never guess it, right? Well I wouldn't have either until the beginning of this year, but it does in fact exist.
The International Thespian Society is a group, referred to as a troupe, that helps students in fulfilling their passions for theatre by granting you points for your experience and involvement in school and outside productions. You can be rewarded for things like being in the ensemble, participating in a theatre festival, even directing a full scale production. The society awards scholastic merit as well, giving a varying amount of awards based on your Grade Point Average.
Many students are very excited for this new opportunity to join the society, especially the twenty-three members of the first round of inductions for the society: Juliet California, Payton Carroll, Michelle Do, Brandon Hackimer, Sarah Hershberger, Connor Hoffman, Natalie Just, Marissa Karpinski, Aidan Kelly, Joe Kelly, Olivia Lyle, Josh Mann, Hannah Martin, Hannah McCreary, Megan Medfisch, Samantha Mouse, Nick Page, Eleanore Pavelle, Jackie Pfeil, Sophia Roll, Camille Traczek, Bethany Tonarelli, and Darby Vojtko
Member Samantha Mouse thinks the Society is going to hold a legacy since it has been in North Hills before. She says "I think that it kind of leaves you room to impress upon the fact that theatre is important to everyone, and it is a big deal. I also think that it leads us to leave new legacies and to create new traditions in North Hills."
There are many clubs in North Hills that celebrate students' success in their said subject. Now, the Drama Club is added to the list of clubs commending student achievement, and they could not be happier or prouder of it. The society's first informal induction ceremony will take place sometime in the coming months.

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BooksHarry Potter
A Life Once Lived
By: Sigy Artyn
She had a life once, but she doesn't remember. All she knows is the ashes and blood she tastes as she wakes up yet again - She's got one more try to get it right. Haesel hadn't quite thought of this when she'd accepted Death's 'chance to live with those she'd lost'. AU, time travel, fem!Harry. Final chapter uploaded with notes regarding ending - Discontinued 21 August '21.
Rated: Fiction T - English - Adventure/Romance - Harry P., Sirius B., James P., Lily Evans P. - Chapters: 35 - Words: 152,616 - Reviews: 908 - Favs: 2,714 - Follows: 3,044 - Updated: 8/21/2021 - Published: 11/28/2014 - Status: Complete - id: 10855282
1. One2. Two3. Three4. Four5. Five6. Six7. Seven8. Eight9. Nine10. Ten11. Eleven12. Twelve13. Thirteen14. Fourteen15. Fifteen16. Sixteen17. Seventeen18. Eighteen19. Nineteen20. Twenty21. Twenty One22. Twenty Two23. Twenty Three24. Twenty Four25. Twenty Five26. Twenty Six27. Twenty Seven28. Twenty Eight29. Twenty Nine30. Thirty31. Author's Note32. Thirty One33. Thirty Two34. Update 9 August 202135. Last Chapter
Last Chapter
Note: Generally, all comments on both FFN and here agreed on the notes as a last chapter, and that adoption would be okay if someone wanted to take the story on – if there is such a person, feel free to contact me! The email address I use for both AO3 and FFN is still active and I will try to react to any message in a timely manner!
To be perfectly honest, I hadn't planned out super much for this story! I've got maybe ten pages of notes, four of which are timeline and bdays and stuff I should remember, but the other six are what I kind of had planned for each of the main characters, kind of.
In general terms, I kind of wanted to set up the story to in a way mirror canon, so it was intended to last for the 7 years of Hogwarts – I think my last chapter uploaded takes place in their fifth year? Obviously it wasn't set in stone, but that was the general lay-out. I wanted to explore some things from canon in a sort of alternative setting, and see what I could do with that, but also keep it true enough to where it came from, in a sense. There are bits in the story that come from more fanon-culture, like names and background bits I used to worldbuild, because let's be honest, as good as JKR's character building is her worldbuilding is shite. I had a lot of fun with the characters, as I tried to reimagine them in changed circumstances. Some surprised me a lot, like Petunia – that was not what I had vaguely planned for her but it really fit well with the way her character arc was going, hah. In a sense, adding 'Haesel' to the mix was like throwing a stone in a pond and then describing the ripples, to me. In some ways, the changes are more drastic for people closer to the source than further away, but I was still working on some things I'll try to illuminate now :D
Because the story was meant to mirror canon, it was going to end roughly when it came to the point where it started, though I've not actually reached that point in story and only mentioned it in the summary: the scene in the train station after Harry (Haesel here, obviously) gets hit with the second AK, and s/he has the option to go further or go back, which in canon is to either continue on to death (and his parents and loved ones) or go back to life (and his loved ones there). I kind of made this into a 'go back in time' thing instead of coming back to life minutes after dying. It was always my end goal to set up a situation where Haesel is once again killed by way of Voldie's AK, and then have her have the original choice of going on to rest in peace or come back to life.
Honestly, was a bit torn on what choice she would ultimately make in the second meeting with Death (whom in my story offered her the chance to go back in time, instead of Dumbledore, though she might've talked with him first as in canon, just not been offered the choice by him). I was a little tempted to let her choose life, but in the end, I was going to let her die, as in, going to let her choose to rest in peace. I think personally that this would work better for what she went through in both lives. Let me explain! :D
Firstly, it had to do with how she got to the past and her 'powers of seeing'. I did not want to do a 'goes back in time with perfect recall and then fixes stuff' approach, but wanted to do something different, part of which was that she did not, in fact, remember with perfect recall. This allowed for the Haesel of my story to be kind of her own person a bit too? And grow according to the world she was living in and the people she was close to (like her family) and develop new bonds with people without the burden of having known them in a different way (like her parents, godfather, etc).
Part of the deal with Death is, in my mind, the opportunity to start afresh (without memories) but not having them at all would defeat the purpose of going back to change the past too! So the deal is that she gets her memories back in the form of dreams and precognition, allowing for an element of free choice for those around her The older she gets, the clearer those memories get, but they are not always accurate anymore to reality (like take Petunia, for example – conflicting memories of an aunt that mistreated her vs memories of a loving sister that died for her) thus her foresight could never be entirely reliable, thus making it into less of a plot-device and more of a guideline for a possible future, and allowing for the characters to at least have (the illusion) of free choice in what they were doing.
The second thing was that I always imagined that when Haesel chose to go back, in order to possibly save those that had died and give them another chance, like her parents for example, her own timeline/the future did not get erased, because from the moment she woke up as Haesel Dearing, after whom she was named and who originally died tragically with her parents in a car accident in 1966, the timelines diverged, so the world she died for (the one with Ron and Hermione) continued on without her, since everything that happened there already had happened. I chose to have it this way, since I figured that canon!Harry (or at least, my interpretation of his character) would never choose to erase his own beloved friends and chosen family if he could help it (since he went and died for them, yk). The consequence of this was, though, when Haesel completely recovers her memories when she meets Death the second time (dying for the 2nd time/4th time depending how you look at it, 4th hit with an AK) she remembers completely all the people she left behind then.
What I wanted to do with my story was bring in how bad the First War against Voldemort was, according to what JK herself alluded to in the books (when adults talk about how horrible the war was, she doesn't give super many details in the books, more like vague statements). All the terror, the killing, the confusion and fear, the different cultural elements she goes less into (like Pureblood culture) and factions (werewolves and giants, for example, which she explores more). In any case, canon!Harry grew up in a time of relative peace, and was only really at (open) war for one year, during which he was on the run. So that was a totally different atmosphere, and I wanted to explore what total war/terror would mean for a different [Haesel] while still showing some light-hearted moments and bonding with family and friends, but also what war can do to people, because I don't really feel JK explored that herself? Then, her writing style is more whimsical and fun, so I don't think it would've fit anyhow :P If you'd like to better look at that in YA, read the Hunger Games books, in my humble opinion they show the devastation that war can do to a young person's mind (or really anyone). Not to say that was inspiration, but I was trying to go for a more realistic and intense emotional vibe, without going total emo and dark (hope it kind of worked? Heh). So, in conclusion of that point, I seriously think that the Haesel of my story was, by the end of two intense lives, seriously traumatized and tired. Not to say that in that situation, giving up 'into death' is the best and only option, if I may phrase it that way, but it did seem realistic to me that someone who's been beaten down and had to fight their entire life, yet still managed to make the most of it, wants to rest after two hard lives, knowing that in both, she gave the people she loved the best chance for a far better future.
So yeah, in the end I decided to allow her that rest. I think canon!Harry was in a total different place, and it fit for him (from a story perspective, as an author – really only talking about the story here) to choose to go back and live.
If you'd rather, when reading the character sections (I wrote out the open story threads regarding how each main character's life went) you'd rather imagine she did choose life again, that's of course fine by me! The beauty of me not actually having written this is that this way the story remains open, and you can choose which ending you like best ;)
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The above is what I remember of what I had in mind, so now I go on to what I actually wrote down – open story threads for each of the main characters! I've sort of put it as a little bio. Most of these pick up where the story left off, in a very broad sense.
Haesel Evans
30 January 1960/31 July 1980 – 2 May 1978
Original parents of Haesel Dearing (Erwin and Ianthe Dearing) die in car accident in München in 1966. She wakes up with no memories, aside from confusing dreams, and is later adopted by her Aunt and Uncle and takes on the name Evans. Original Haesel Potter took the offer of Death to 'live with those she loves' and inhabited a body whose soul had died (mother's cousin she was named after), essentially, getting her memories transferred as dreams, which cease to be entirely trustworthy due to the changes she's infliction on the world around her (knowingly and unknowingly). Becomes Girl-Who-Lived (again) on 10 December 1974 after the sacrifice of her sister Petunia, and is then hunted by Voldemort until a final confrontation on May 2nd, 1978, when she is hit by another AK by Voldie and meets Death again (after talking once more to Petunia). Decides to take the train forwards (death).
Robert and Ivy Evans
(1933-2017, and 1934-1997)
Petunia (1956-1974) was a bit of an accident when they were quite young, but lucky for them (for a given value of luck) they received an inheritance (from the death of Ivy's parents in a plane accident) with which they could buy a house, after which their combined earnings helped them establish a comfortable middle-class life by the time Lily was born (1960).
After Petunia's death in 1974, they grow estrangled in grief from their other daughters because they blame magic for Petunia's death, and move to Canada where Ivy has a huge garden in Petunia's honour, and Robert becomes an avid bird-watching enthusiast. Robert's mother, Evangeline Evans née Bones comes to live with them until her death from old age in 1983 (considering her house was burned down by Voldie's minions).
With time and distance (mostly from the conflict going on and the memories in England/UK), they are able to grieve properly and rebuild bonds as a family. Summer and other holidays for Lily and Haesel in 1975, 1976 and 1977 are spent at their home in Canada (under much spellwork by the Order, of course). Especially the summer of 1975 is very emotional, as the remaining family members grieve together and grow closer.
After Haesel's death in 1978 they completely renounce the wizarding world (since it has only brought them grief and took two of their daughters) and refuse to return permanently to England after Haesel's funeral, only visiting for the birth of their grandchildren. From then on, it's always Lily that visits them in Canada (she even gets a phone and later internet to connect to her parents more easily) though Lily and James spend a lot of their summers in Canada with her parents, especially after having children.
Ivy dies first of a bloot clot in the brain, quick and painless. Robert dies about twenty years later of advanced old age after a period of illness. They are both buried in Canada, and Lily keeps the property, vacationing there for a while and eventually retiring there. The property remains in the family for generations.
In case Haesel lives, about the same happens except they don't completey renounce the Wizarding World and will visit their daughters occasionally, though they visit in Canada more.
Lily Evans and James Potter
(30 January 1960 – 2082, and 27 March 1960 – 2080)
Get together in 6th year, after growing closer and becoming good friends and realizing they have much in common (and of course like each other, hah). They keep butting heads over Severus Snape, especially after a big fight in their 5th year (around December 1975) but end up agreeing to disagree, especially after the final confrontation in 1978.
Lily goes into Healing and graduates with honour after several years of study (including residency), eventually re-educating herself in muggle medicine in her 30s to be able to truly bring to life the dream she shared with Petunia of combining both to reach innovative and creative solutions to problems plaguing both worlds. James becomes an Auror, being very successful and ending up department head when he is about 50. They are both, alongside most of their friends, considered decorated war heroes, and both endeavour to give back to the community with programs for disadvantaged children. They are considered very well-matched and are very well loved and respected in the community, both in the UK and internationally.
They marry on July 30th, 1979. A year later, Lily goes into labour with their first child, but the baby – a son, Harry - is only born on the 31st. They ask Sirius and Alice to be godparents, and Lily is likewise godmother to Alice's son Neville born 30th of July 1980.
Unfortunately, Lily suffers an early miscarriage of a baby girl at about 12 weeks, that they posthumously name Marigold Petunia, on 31 October 1981.
In 1984, they have another son they name Edward Robert (after James' uncle and godfather, and Lily's father respectively). One year later in 1985, their daughter Rosemary Haesel is born. Unexpectedly, they have another child in 1997, Daphne Elysia, only a little before Ivy Evans dies, who is fortunately still able to meet the child.
Unfortunately, both James' parents and their second son, little Edward 'Teddy', contact Dragon Pox, and all three succumb to the illness in 1993. This motivates Lily to go into muggle medicine, as there is no cure for Dragon Pox in the Wizarding Community, and it becomes her life-long goal to find one (she eventually does, much later in life, with a little help of an old journal of Severus Snape's).
The Potters die shortly after each other, aged 120 years (James) and 122 (Lily), in their home in Canada. Their bodies are entombed in the ancestral Potter manor in Wiltshire, where they lived most of their lives (after the death of James' parents, and until their retirements upon when the home went to Harry), and where their children were also buried, especially wee Marigold and little Teddy.
Severus Snape
(9 January 1960 – 2 May 1978)
Has a fall-out with Lily about his Dark-leanings in April 1976, after which he betrays an overheard prophecy regarding Voldie and Haesel to the former, who after this takes him into his confidence (also because he's a very talented potioneer already creating his own improvements in potions and even some rudimentary spells). He thusly falls deeper into the Dark side, experimenting as much as he wishes and disregarding the ethical side of what he is doing sometimes, despite having misgivings occasionally.
When a plot to kill Haesel in Hogwarts results in Lily lying in the Hospital Wing in a coma for several weeks due to a potion Severus created over the summer for Voldie in the beginning of sixth year (October 1976), he starts to seriously doubt his path and convictions, and that the ends justify the means as Voldie preaches (remembering his prior misgivings, his original goals which were a bit more noble, and what his mother wished for him – she dies in their fifth year from the abuse she suffered under his father, who's jailed for this), and eventually in the new year (1977) becoming a spy for Dumbledore until he dies in June 1977. (like in canon, Dumbledore was suffering from the curse he got from the ring in the Gaunt shack and used Severus to kill himself, so that Severus would be able to stay in Voldie's good graces and be a successful spy for the Light side. The ethics of this are, again, slightly dubious).
Perfects the Wolfsbane potion, ostentiously to provide Voldie with fighting monsters (werewolves) in full control of themselves, but in actuality to impress Lily, show her he changed, and show her that he came back to the 'good side' – and of course to leave an impressive legacy – he after all remained a Slytherin ;)
Due to them supposedly still being on opposite sides of the war, this doesn't end up working out for him (as in, she gets the fighting monster propaganda and not the truth until much later) and his continued attempts to reach out to her plus the more humane and well-meaning research he is doing instead of delving deeper into the dark gets him Voldie's suspicions instead, who orders him to kill Dumbledore to prove his loyalty at the end of sixth year (June 1977). Dumbes uses this for his own gain, establishing Severus among the death eaters but making a reunion between him and Lily almost impossible at the height of the war.
While the Marauders go on the run in their seventh year (as Hogwarts is taken over following Dumbles' death) Lily and the girls among others become part of an underground resistance in Hogwarts operating from the Room of Requirement since Lily has to go into hiding pretty soon anyhow. Severus tries to support her as much as possible, actually saving some people's lives with timely interventions (often with clever use of potions) but as they are on totally opposite sides this is alas not clear to Lily and Severus is too afraid to risk her to openly seek her out. The one time they meet in person (shortly after the start of the school year, and right before she goes into hiding) she even wins in a duel - they were both fighting seriously since they had a lot of hard feelings to battle out. Severus ends up writing her lots of letters detailing what he went through, in an attempt to reach her anyhow, and leaving lots of coded notebooks with his actual research, the kind they imagined they would do as kids, which reaches her a couple years after the war and end up helping her develop a cure for Dragon Pox decades later, which finally allows her to heal from the rift between them and remember the good times they had fondly.
Severus ends up dying before he can reconcile with his dearest friend in person (or with anyone else he had a connection to – I kind of had a redemption arc of sorts planned that is cut tragically short) at the Battle of Hogwarts on May 2nd, 1978, but not before managing to gift Haesel invaluable intel regarding Voldie's last Horcrux (which is not the same as the books, but that's of no consequence here so won't go into it, hadn't planned it out yet either heh). Since she is with him as he dies, they manage to reconcile somewhat, as they've had a stained and difficult relationship when they were younger – Haesel felt he was taking her sister away from her (she might've been a tad possessive of her sisters) and Severus felt she rejected him without giving him a chance because he was a poor loser, and thus always coveted her friendship and yet hated her for dismissing her (in my view, no romantic entanglements involved here – if anything, he crushed hard on and loved Lily). It is however cathartic for him to reconcile with her a little at least before he dies, as they manage to reach out a bit and say sorry, so at least that bridge was a little mended before his death.
Initially, Lily didn't struggle too much with his death (much more so with the death of her last remaining sister), as as far she knew he had been an evil agent for Voldie working for the Dark and doing inhumane experiments and other evil things. She thus initially refused to read his letters or journals, believing he had a hand in Haesel's death, but finally opened them after her son Teddy's death in 1993 out of a desire to know and possibly make peace with his death. She struggled for many years with feelings of guilt and regret, especially after being able to use part of his research for a cure for Dragon Pox, thinking that if they'd been able to reconcile earlier – if she'd been able to get over her hurt feelings and see what he had actually been doing, they might have been able to make up before he died (or even help him survive), and moreover, his research could have perhaps helped save the life of her son. Though being able to develop a cure (and calling it the Potter-Snape cure for Dragon Pox or whatever) helps her make peace with this to a certain extent, this remains a lasting regret and sadness for her until her death. She did not name a kid after him, but displayed a photo of them as happy kids in her office and dedicated a lot of her research to him, sometimes building on his own (in which case she always credited him, thus allowing him to actually have a positive legacy and restoring his good name for his actions as a spy).
I'm not sure how much of the above was visible in the story, but this was about my intention. He's a pretty interesting character in canon, which does good things but also some pretty vile things (like bullying kids as a teacher – not okay, that) so I did want to explore that though it happened in the background, heh.
Remus Lupin
(10 March 1960 – 30 December 2057)
After the war, which gave him many scars that made him look rather ferocious and scary (which along with his revealed status as a werewolf, made it hard for him to date along with problems trusting anyone who was not a trusted friend from before the war, and a certain degree of paranoia), studied magical defence and creatures, becoming an internationally renowned expert in his field (academic). Joins Sirius for several years and developed much field experience, but retires from adventuring in the early 2000s to teach at Hogwarts, becoming a favoured DADA professor after Lily succeeds in uncovering the truth of Severus' work on Wolfsbane and he can thus safely remain in the castle during the full moon. Meets and falls in love with Nymphadora Tonks-Black, eventually having a son they name Edward Remus in honour of Nym's father and the late Teddy Potter, whom was Remus' godson, and whom is born in 1997.
Remus is such an excellent and beloved teacher that he ends up becoming the first werewolf Headmaster of Hogwarts in 2037. He dies a scant 20 years later, partly due to complications from the severe injuries he got in the war, and from being a werewolf, leaving a wife and two sons (John Hamish, born in 2002) but being remembered fondly as a great teacher and headmaster.
Florence Night
(19 September 1959 – 2053)
Gets in accordance with family tradition/expectation two masteries, in Transfiguration and Warding, but then defies tradition and expectation to go adventuring with Sirius and Remus in 1993, gaining an additional four masteries during that time, before retiring from adventuring to teach at the Magical University of Cambridge in 2023. Occasionally, she can't resist the call of adventure, and goes out again. She has many flings and short relationships, but never settles with one person (though there is an interesting poly-romantic entanglement that almost results in a marriage but unfortunately ends, partly due to her inability to sit still and stop going out on 'hare-brained adventures'. Florence has no regrets, though). One of her apprentices during her teaching tenure is actually one Hermione Granger.
She's voted most fun and interesting professor for about 15 years in a row (a record) due to her past as a war hero (about which she was very open, partly because she was not ashamed about anything she did, and partly because she wished to have her students know the reality of war and not the famed, exaggerated tales of it told years later) and also due to her notorious habit of going adventuring, sometimes in the middle of the academic year.
She eventually dies on a trip to find the magical sunken kingdom of Atlantis in 2038, 'young, pretty and in a blaze of glory'. Her friends, family, students, and biographers consider this a fair assessment of her death (though Hermione Granger, in one of those biographies, also calls it a 'tragic waste of a brilliant mind'.)
Alice Little
(28 December 1959 – 2053)
Marries Frank Longbottom shortly after the war and becomes a decorated Auror, famed for her sharp instincts and quick spell-fire. Retires briefly during her career as an Auror to raise son Neville (1980) and daughter Anne (1982; named for Petunia Ann Evans, as Alice felt she owed her life to Petunia's intervention in December 1974, and that she owed her and Haesel a life-debt, and she wanted to honour them both), but then returns to the force when both are at Hogwarts in 1993.
She becomes a legend in the force for her unceasing devotion to fight the good fight, endlessly pursuing some of the worst criminals of the Wizarding World, both in Britain and abroad, earning the nickname of 'Crazy Alice' for her sometimes daring antics. Whenever she tries to retire, she always ends up inevitably returning to the force, to the point James just keeps her a desk in the DMLE somewhere for whenever she inevitably gets bored of being at home and un-retires. Her drive to fight often causes her and Frank to fight, who feels she gave enough for the cause and while a good Auror himself, does not have her drive and doesn't always understand her almost blind devotion to throwing herself into any fight she can. They always find their way back to each other, making up quickly and remaining devoted to each other through many years of marriage.
She ends up becoming morally wounded in a hostage situation in September 2053, dying of her wounds not long after successfully rescuing a small child. On her deathbed, she confides in Lily Potter, on shift at the hospital and able to be with her friend and tells her that she considers this an honourable way to die, as she is giving her life for others, and that she feels she has now been able to repay the debt she owes to the Evans' sisters, after which she passes in peace. Though no others (not even Frank) manage to make it to the hospital before she passes, the peace apparent on her face makes Frank feel as if she has finally managed to reach what she was so desperately striving towards all her life, and this gives him at least a level of comfort.
Mary McDonald
(4 May 1960 – 2085)
Has arguably the most low-key life of her friends, as she becomes a professional Quidditch player after the war, being a star beater for the Holyhead Harpies for almost 10 years until an injury to the spine forces her to retire. Mobility for always reduced – not even magic can fix all injuries – she starts a program to coach poor and unfortunate children in sports, supported by Lily Potter who feels inspired by this to found a much larger foundation in memory of Severus Snape and all children like him, who have nowhere to go and come from broken homes and situations, calling it the Hope Foundation which not only provides them with access to sports (Mary heads this), but also other avenues like education, housing, scholarships, etc. Mary vetoes a reference to Snape (since she did not get along with him at all) but concedes to that children like him – and him, too, in hindsight – deserve much more chances and opportunities, so she supports the broadening of the scope of her program to include things other than sport, which Lily among others head, though Mary remains the founder and very much involved eventual head of the general foundation until her death.
She marries widow Edgar Bones, younger cousin of her old Captain and teammate Seraphina Bones, becoming the plus-mother of his young daughter Susan and having only one daughter herself, Willow Grace Bones (1992). She eventually dies of old age in 2085, one of the last surviving of her friends.
Sirius Black
(31 October 1959 – 2 May 2089)
Devastated after losing Haesel, he at first loses himself in becoming an Auror and gathering up all the remaining death eaters together with James (who's a little more restrained, Sirius is often considered a bit of a dangerous wild card), only calming down a bit with the birth of his godson Harry in 1980. After Teddy Potter's death in 1993, he joins Lily in going through the archives of what she has left of Petunia, Haesel, and Severus in an attempt to deal with her grief over the loss of her son, and discovers a letter addressed to him from Haesel, written years ago but never sent. It's a long, happy ramble written in the summer of 1977, shortly before they had to go into hiding hunting Horcruxes, and mentions her wishes for after the war, namely a wish to go out to explore the world and experience many wonderful things.
Inspired by the letter (which he spelt unbreakable and carried always) he goes out adventuring, joined by Remus and Florence (and many others over the course of many years) and growing famous for discovering many places like El Dorado, Atlantis (the expedition on which they lose Florence).
Before leaving on his first adventure, he laid down the mantle of Lord Black, passing it on to his brother Regulus (they had reconciled sometime back in 1976, and Regulus was an active part of the underground resistance in Hogwarts, to the eternal wrath of Voldie who never did get the Black family in his legion of minions, with the exception of Bellatrix, who was booted out of the family for serving a half-blood – Narcissa managed to walk a fine line between her Death Eater husband and family, never actually being involved and in fact fleeing when pregnant to raise her son as Draco Black since Lucius managed to survive after the war for a bit but then went cray-cray; Andromeda was initially cast out for marrying a muggleborn but reinstated when Sirius became head at the death of his father in 1983). Regulus married a perfectly respectable pureblood girl and had perfectly respectable children (and kept their mother in check).
Sirius was the favourite uncle of many of his friends' children, since he always brought back amazing stories and crazy presents. He himself never in fact married nor had a relationship, staying loyal to Haesel, and when he ended up as the last surviving of his friends despite a wild career of adventuring, finally stepped through the Veil of Death in search of the next Great Adventure on the 111th anniversary of Haesel's death on May 2nd, 2089.
If she survived, they both become adventurers together (he still lays down the mantle of Lord Black, deciding politics is nothing for him) after Haesel gets a mastery in DADA and Sirius's been an Auror (much less crazy) for a while. They do have three children, but they name them Rigel Sirius (1983), Leo Arcturus (1985) and Lyra Cassiopeia (1990). They live all over the globe, sending their kids back to Hogwarts, but eventually retiring to the estate in Canada to live with Lily and James in their last years, dying old and happy, Haesel in 2078 and Sirius, after keeping Lily company after James' death in 2080 until her own death two years later, finally dies peacefully in his sleep on May 2nd, 2089.
So there you have it! I intended to write the story until the Final Battle at Hogwarts on May 2nd, 1978, and then finish with an epilogue of Sirius stepping through the Veil on May 2nd, 2089 after he reflects on his long life and says goodbye to the headstones of his friends' graves, which would be the end of the entire story.
I'm glad I wrote out these notes! Some of you replied that knowing what would happen with the story (not just an endless silence) would give closure, and having written this, I realise that this, while not truly finishing this story and writing the ending, doing this also gave me closure on this story. I am incredibly grateful to each and everyone of you for your support, kudos, comments, follows, favourites, and everything! Thank you
I thank you from the bottom of my heart for reading this story – I hope it gave you some enjoyment! If you feel inspired to adopt it (or it inspires you to write something of your own, based on some idea I explored here) feel free to contact me! My account will likely stay active – I'm not deleting this or any other stories, and the email linked to my account will remain active, so feel free to reach out, I'd consider it an honour if you want to continue this in whatever way! Though I must say I'm almost never on FFN anymore, so Archive of Our Own (AO3) is probably a much better way to find me, heh.
I don't think I'll write anymore fanfiction – I'm honestly more exited to write some of the ideas I've had and projects I've been working on the side the last fifteen years, and write my own stories hopefully in the future, though that might have to wait a little since I'm currently incubating an alien parasite (aka I'm pregnant hihi :P) so that's also a bit of a reason why my focus has shifted a lot, heh.
I'm glad I can give you the notes above as a way to provide at least a bit of an ending. I learned a lot while writing this story, and I had fun, but I also struggled a lot, mentally and sometimes physically, which impacted my writing. The last couple of years have not been easy, but it's been worth it! I really needed support back in 2017 and 2018, and many kind strangers on the internet (on FFN and AO3) gave me so much kindness, and that to date remains one of the most wonderful things I have experienced in my life! If I learned anything at all the past years, it's that sometimes you struggle, and it is hard, but it will get better. Please don't give up! I'm so glad I didn't. Find the right people, do what makes you happy, and persevere – you will get there. You will! I did.
Thank you all so much again and all the best wishes!
This is the end of the story 'A Life Once Lived'. Thank you for reading.


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Q: How to use the laravel command 'whereIn' and 'WhereNotIn' in the same query on laravel collection I have a query that works fine when randomly selecting a new product from the database. But to prevent duplication, in my view I pass a JSON object of products already for sale on the page. I want my query to essentially query my DB for products for sale but are also not in the collection of products already for sale.
This part works absolutely fine
$nproduct = Product::whereIn('seller_id', Auth::user()->samegroup())->inRandomOrder()->first();
            $nprice = $nproduct->price;
            $nquantity = $nproduct->quantity_available;
            $nid = $nproduct->id;
            $nseller = $nproduct->seller_id;

But I struggle when trying to make sure my query doesn't include anything inside $products_already_for_sale
$products_already_for_sale = $request->current_product_ids;

A: try this
$products_already_for_sale = $request->current_product_ids; //it must be array []

$nproduct = Product::whereIn('seller_id', Auth::user()->samegroup())->whereNotIn('product_id',
$products_already_for_sale)->inRandomOrder()->first();

totally untested, but I think this would work

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NEW ORLEANS, LA. - An experimental vaccine cut the risk of becoming infected with HIV by 31 percent.
The results were released from the world's largest AIDS vaccine trial of more than 16,000 volunteers in Thailand.
The study was sponsored by the U.S. Army and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Doctors say the vaccine is not efficient enough yet to be rolled out to the public.
But local researchers who are also working on an HIV vaccine, say this gives them a huge scientific clue and points them in an important direction.
"It's very exciting news because it's the first AIDS vaccine that's ever worked and shown at least some protection in people despite like 25 years of attempts," said Dr. Alistair Ramsay, Director of the Louisiana Vaccine Center and The Gene Therapy Program at LSU Health Sciences Center.
Ramsay said this will advance what he does in his lab."The main thing it will do is it gives everyone clues as to how these vaccines might work. It gives us a little angle to look in at," he added.
This is the first time a vaccine has ever given any significant protection against getting infected with HIV.


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Time is Running Out: Luis Pedro / Ney Matogrosso: The Making of "Vagabundo "
Luis Pedro / Ney Matogrosso: The Making of "Vagabundo "
Wilson das Neves playing Tamborim : 1:30, 5:55 , 7:09.
Wilson das Neves playing Caixa part : 6:25 , . . . Cymbal: 2:16, 5:23.


Our apartment is the main thing in our lives. We spend much time at home. That is why it should be very comfortable and cozy. It is not going to be a surprise that the modern world is very unusual and people are rather unpredictable. Every day we create something new. We elaborate on many new automation ideas and try to implement them in real life.
One of the brightest examples is a smart house. Basically, there are many cool ideas to automate your house in order to make things simpler. For example, you can make some hidden lifts and cabinets. So, in this article, we will share with you the information on how to build a TV lift cabinet.
A TV Lift Cabinet: What is this?
Usually, people have a TV in the living room, as all of us prefer to gather together with the family and watch some films or TV shows from time to time. However, A TV can vary due to the size and sometimes it takes much space. Also, it can be inconvenient to keep your TV when your little kids have free access to the living room, as they can run and play with varied toys and balls. As a result, your TV can be broken. So, there is a smart decision on this issue – to build a hidden lift cabinet. The point is that you need to make a box that will have a moving mechanism to lift the TV up and down. When you want to watch it, you just need to push the button and your TV will appear. And when you finished watching it, it will hide in the case. It will save the space in your living room and it won't be broken by children. However, to make such a lift, you need to use a linear actuator.
In fact, pеople usе variеd lineаr actuаtors when they nеed to cоnvert the rotаtional mоtion into the lineаr one. Today, there are mаny typеs of lineаr actuаtors (hydrаulic, pneumаtic, mаgnetic, elеctric, and mеchanic). Also, they vary duе to the size, capacity, voltage, and individual options. Іn аny wаy, it'll be better to order your lineаr actuаtor on the official website https://www.progressiveautomations.com. This compаny has a wide rаnge of high-quаlity actuаtors, so you will fіnd оut thе bеst onе fоr yоu there.
How to make a TV Lift Cabinet?
Door pull knobs, and some other parts in accordance with the design and model of your TV lift cabinet.
Basically, the process requires your time and efforts. You can create the design by yourself or just to take the ready one on the Internet. Also, you can find there the ready calculations and sizes. You just need to follow the instructions and do everything correctly. When all the components are connected, check everything several times before switching the lift to the power source.
In fact, with the help of the Internet, you can build and create everything you want. So, if you decide to make your own TV lift cabinet, select the most suitable design, do some calculations, prepare all the materials, connect all the details, and switch the ready construction to the power source. However, it'll be better to use only high-quality linear actuators and other materials.
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I am bookmarking this article. Thanks for writing this. I normally use future automation TV lifts. Now working on a project where bed side TV lift is needed. We are creating a drawing for the TV cabinet first then we will pass it to the client and if agreed we will go ahead and build it. Already selected the TV lift. I am building something similar to the first image of this blog.


Sentencing Law and Policy: "State Legislatures and Solving the Eighth Amendment Ratchet Puzzle"
"State Legislatures and Solving the Eighth Amendment Ratchet Puzzle"
The United States Supreme Court's evolving standards of decency jurisprudence has come to be understood as having forged an irreversible one-way ratchet moving only toward greater leniency. The seemingly irreversible ratchet emerges both from practical challenges for state legislatures in pursuing stricter sanctions under the evolving standards of decency framework of analysis and an underlying assumption that moral evolution in criminal justice only moves towards lesser not greater sanctions.
This Article offers a challenge to the latter assumption, the view that moral evolution can only be towards lesser not greater sanctions being imposed. This Article also attempts to provide a solution to the practical problem of the Eight Amendment ratchet puzzle, rendering reversible the seemingly irreversible ratchet. In doing so, the Article sets forth two critical mechanisms — contingent legislation and the active use of resolutions — which if utilized by state legislatures will enable them to more effectively engage in a constitutional dialogue with the United States Supreme Court in defining societal evolving standards of decency.
I see the whole evolving standards of decency as a gimick for the Court to be able to dictate the desires of a bare majority of its members. All that would really be needed is for a new Court majority to say it was a mistake.
And then of course the following majorities will say "was not, "was too" ad infinitum.
Soronel, it appears from your statement that you desire to remove from the judiciary the power to decide when a sentence offends the Eighth Amendment. Which means you dispute that the US is a constitutional democracy, not a pure democracy.
I believe that the 8th amendment, properly understood, bans certain particular procedures, drawing and quartering, evisceration, breaking on the wheel and the like. I do not believe that it has any input at all when considering what punishment is lawful for a given offense. That is, the 8th contemplates what but not at all why.
And I believe that list is stuck as it stood at the time of ratification (perhaps updated to the ratification of the 14th amendment) but no later. Just as I believe the Court is very wrong on its 1st amendment jurisprudence (Sullivan as a prime example) even though I very much like the outcomes the Court comes to as a policy matter.


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People magazine cover celebrates Betty White's 100th birthday
Betty White died on Friday. She was 99 years old.
The cover of People magazine's current issue celebrates White's 100th birthday.
It features an interview White did a few weeks before his death.
Actress and comedy legend Betty White died Friday at the age of 99, TMZ reported.
She was due to turn 100 on January 17, a milestone that is celebrated on the cover of the current issue of People magazine. The magazine has been available on newsstands nationwide since Wednesday and arrived in subscriber mailboxes this week.
"We are deeply saddened by the news of Betty White's passing," People editor Dan Wakeford told Insider in a statement. "We are honored that she recently chose to work with PEOPLE to celebrate her extraordinary life and career."
The cover of People celebrating Betty White's 100th birthday.
People are already pointing out the unfortunate timing of the cover.
—Kelsey Dallas (@kelsey_dallas) December 31, 2021
—douglas chu 鞠一道 (@douglaschu_) December 31, 2021
In the People article, White opened up about how she felt about turning 100 and shared her secrets to a long and happy life, joking that her diet included avoiding food. "everything green". She said she owes her upbeat and positive nature to her mother.
"I'm so lucky to be so healthy and feel so good at this age," White said. says People's Liz McNeil and Dory Jackson in the interview, which took place a few weeks before his death. "It's incredible."
White's career spanned more than seven decades. She was known for her roles on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "The Golden Girls" and, in recent years, "Hot in Cleveland." She won eight Emmys and a Grammy for a spoken word recording of her best-selling autobiography, "If You Ask Me."
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The main reason to invest in ESI is because of its collegiate merchandising rights.
ESI is signing exclusive licensing contracts with India's largest Universities and creating the logo, Identity and a mascot (something which never been done before in India.
Again, This concept of putting a name and a logo to a University was never done before in India. Elite Sports of India, Inc. has begun the educate and facilitate the process of securing Sports names and logos for their institutions.
Keep in mind, the Universities in America, have 25,000 to 50,000 students. Often time sin India, the Universities carry as many 500,000 to 1,000,000 students.
Exclusive contracts have been signed by many of the largest sports retail shops in India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan to sell EFLI and UBA merchandise.
The sports market in North America was worth $60.5 billion in 2014.PwC anticipates that licensed merchandise sales will go from an estimated $13.5 billion in 2014 to $14.5 billion in 2019.
NCAA affiliated Universities generated $4.6 Billion in college merchandise and licensing revenue in 2015.
Collegiate Licensing Company Represents 200 colleges comprising of 80% of the $4.6B collegiate licensed goods market.
Annual retail sales for collegiate licensed merchandise in 2012 were $4.62 billion, a record high and up from just $2.9 billion in 2004.
Merchandise attached to college licensing sells more licensed goods than any major league sport with the exception of Major League Baseball.
CLC was created in 1981. The University of Alabama became CLC's first University client. Eight other schools quickly followed, and an industry was born.
CLC was purchased by global sports, fashion, and media leader IMG Worldwide in 2007 and operates as an affiliate unit of IMG College.


Came across this on a recipe book but I couldn't remember or jot down it's recipe. So I decided to try & make my own version. I do not know how the original taste like but mine not too bad, I quite like it…it's appetizing!
Steam aubergine for 15-20mins or until softened.
Peel the skin away when cool down & arrange on a serving dish.
Sprinkle the spring onions, chillies & egg before squeezing the lime/lemon juice evenly on top.
Heat oil in a small frying pan, add shrimps & garlic. Fry until golden. Pour on top.
Add shaoxing wine & light soy sauce to the dish before serving.


27 Feb No one knows your family and friends like you do. If they're open-minded liberal types or have had an interracial relationship or two themselves.
28 Mar But once I found commonalities with his family, the skin color didn't Being in an interracial relationship was a wake up call that we have a lot.
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The Reverend Roy Lewis of Galena died on Jan. 1, 2021 at his home. Roy was born on June 20, 1936 in Grand Rapids, MI to Guy and Viola (Morse) Lewis. He had one Sister, Harriett Lewis-Holwerda.
Roy attended Ferris State College and went on to Iliff School of Theology in Denver where he earned his Masters of Divinity. For most of his ministerial career, Roy served various Methodist Churches throughout the Rocky Mountain Conference where he met Nancy Glick, his wife, while serving in the Methodist Church in Aspen.
Roy and Nancy were united in marriage on May 18, 1985 in the Methodist Church in Galena. Roy and Nancy adopted two daughters, Natalie (Ohio) from Russia and Simina (Dubuque) from Romania. Roy also had a son, Dr Douglas (Beverly) Lewis and a daughter Kathy Lewis from his first marriage to Meredith Halbert.
Roy was an avid Michigan Wolverine fan and for games was totally decked out in Michigan attire. During games he would sit with his legs crossed in the direction of play to score. Breaks occurred only during commercials and half time. He also loved to fish, camp, golf, and ski (in an earlier day).
Surviving are his wife, Nancy, and daughters Natalie, Simina, and Kathy (Colorado), and a daughter in-law Dr. Beverly Lewis (Texas). He is also survived by 2 grandsons, Casey ad Ben (Kylee) and several great grandchildren.
Roy was preceded in death by his son, Dr Douglas, a grandson, Evan, a sister, Harriett, and his parents.
Due to COVID, there will be no service and a celebration of life will take place at a later date. The Tri-State Cremation Center is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be left at www.tristatecremationcenter.com
The family would like to thank Dr. Vandigo, Hospice of Dubuque, and our friends and relatives for their care and help. Memorials may be sent to Hospice of Dubuque, IA.
Due to COVID, there will be no service and a celebration of life will take place at a later date.
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For 50 years, Rudy Kennedy did not talk to anybody about the two years he spent as a slave laborer in Auschwitz, where his sister and mother were gassed the day they arrived and his father was murdered six weeks later.
The memories were too painful and he felt even if he told people, they wouldn't have believed him.
Then, hearing of the difficulties a group of survivors were having getting an official apology from the German government, Kennedy said he got angry and got involved.
On Sunday, the 57th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Kennedy came to Berlin for a special screening in Germany's parliament building of the film "I was a Slave Laborer," a documentary which largely focuses on his key role in the legal proceedings that ended in the establishment of a compensation fund for Holocaust victims.
"We must convince them (the younger generation) that something terrible happened and it must not happen again, and we're relying on them," said Kennedy, who now lives in London.
The screening was one of many events held Sunday in cities across Europe marking the Jan. 27, 1945 liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet Army. An estimated 1.5 million people, most of them Jews, died at the Nazi death camp in then German-occupied Poland.
In Moscow, a former Red Army commander who participated in the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz said he is still haunted by what he saw that day.
"What struck me first were the boxes with children's footwear, eyeglass frames, human hair," Gen. Vasily Petrenko, 90, said during a Holocaust Day memorial event in the Russian capital, according to Interfax news agency.
Leonid Nevzlin, President of the Russian Jewish Congress and a member of Russia's Federation Council, called on young Jews to be "more educated, active and intelligent" to ensure that the lessons of Nazi terror are never forgotten.
The memorial event was attended by the ambassadors from Israel and Germany, Russia's Chief Rabbi Adolf Shayevich and representatives of Jewish organizations, the news agency said.
In Poland, some 200 Auschwitz survivors and relatives of victims gathered at the former death camp on Sunday.
A local Polish priest and a rabbi from Berlin said prayers on the ruins of the gas chambers, and wreaths were laid against a wall where prisoners were shot and at a crematorium.
In a heavy rain, the participants _ including Israeli ambassador to Poland, Shevah Weiss, young Poles, Germans, and local officials _ laid flowers, lit candles and said prayers at a memorial to the people killed in the camp.


It has been a while since I blogged about the girls. My last post was about beginning of a new era: Kindergarten. Nine weeks have gone by and I think I could have written a novel just filled with emotions and all the changes it has entailed. I titled this post, "Survival of the Fittest," because that is what it has felt like. I feel I have been to battle and back. Adjustment after adjustment, tear after tear, but I believe we are slowly turning a corner just right in time for the holidays!
Any mother can relate to the day you first watch your kiddos walk through those big school doors and look back and say, "Bye, Mom!" I have had a million people ask me if I cried. Well, I am human people! I did wait until I got in the car with my husband. It was the ugly cry no doubt. I knew they would be happy and have a great day. They have an adorable teacher. Going to school six hours a day, five days a week has been exhausting on the girls. There have been several, "we have to go again today?" Unfortunately, yes you do my loves.
It has been hard on both of us. I feel empty nested. I don't have a baby or toddler to go home to when they go to school. I don't work outside the home. The big question, "What do you do with all your free time now?" I got passed being somewhat insulted by this question. Some people are just generally curious and I get that. I have had six years of utter adventure and a non-stop physically taxing job raising them to this point. It has been sort of a bitter sweet symphony (insert theme from Cruel Intentions). We are all navigating this new season together.
This sweet girl above has hit me out of left field with some separation anxiety. It has broken me at times seeing her in tears and upset just about going to school. As much as you can nail down a five year-old, I have explored every issue that could possible be the reason why she doesn't entirely like the school process. Bottom line, she just misses time with her mama. Boy my girl, me too. You have no idea. In true Emily resilience, things are moving upward! You go my big girl! We are exploring her gifts and giving her space to be the silly little one she is. She has a heck of a swing, so maybe golf or tennis in her future!
Avery takes on challenges in true stride. Not much shakes her and her confidence is something to be admired. She is trucking along about to learn a back handspring at tumbling and taking on dance once again in a mini-hip-hop class. She is super eager to read by herself.
Camdyn…Oh Cam..She is the ultimate teacher's helper. Seriously loves all things school. Has been incredibly happy and is such a sweet friend to new friends at school. She is also doing tumbling and her confidence has really soared. She used to be really hard on herself if she didn't get something right away. I have seen over time how practice is making perfect or at least teaching her she can accomplish it if she wants to. She is also doing dance!
Although this post is greatly delayed all of the emotions are still ringing true for this mama. My faith in the Lord has pushed me to feel and to conqueror this season with new hope for the future. Thank God he meets us right where we are every day. We all know some days are better than others!
Those days of bottles and a mountain of diapers are gone. I never in a million years thought I would grieve for those days. Ok, I lied. I don't grieve for any of that. I am more than happy to put that behind us. But, the littles. The little fingers, little toes, little words, just all things little are growing into bigger girls engaged in a bigger world.
Lord, thank you for our health and these gifts we get to call our daughters. I promise to pull up my bootstraps and get on with it! Haha.
It's just such a treat watching them grow!….it's flying by! They are just lovely. I do enjoy you describing how their personalities differ too! Keep up the writing!!


A "travlin man," your humble narrator had some business to attend to in Greenpoint last Thursday which was meant to be followed by helping out on a Working Harbor Committee excursion in the evening. The WHC trip was leaving from Lower Manhattan's Pier 11, so the logical path was to catch the East River Ferry from Brooklyn to the City. While onboard, I spotted something fairly curious.
Is that the nose of a submarine being towed on a barge?
The tug doing the towing was the GT Lyman. As is usually the case, tugboatinformation.com has everything you'd want to know about the Lyman on display at their site. To sum up – she was built in 1968, is owned and operated by Delaware's Gateway Towing, and can normally be found in the waters around Philadelphia.
What Lyman was towing looks very much – to me at least – to be the front section of a submarine. Maybe I'm being crazy here, but there's a conning tower and… that's a submarine.
Now, I've taken lots of shots around NY Harbor but I've never taken a photo of a submarine before.
Actually, I probably have, but pictured above is what you'd normally get in a shot of a submarine.
One was kind of hoping that the Lyman was going to execute a turn into the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but it continued heading north along the East River.
Probably Headed to New London via the Long Island Sound. Just happened to be driving through yesterday and noticed there is a submarine base there.
What's with all this "business" you've got going on in Greenpoint? Always one kind of meeting or another.
Reblogging Mitch Waxman's recent Newtown Pentacle post about an astonishing sight on the East River. Thanks Mitch for the fascinating piece!
My guess is bound for General Dynamics in Groton, CT?


Their last show here sold out almost immediately.
British electric-pop duo Honne will return to play in Bangkok barely a year after their last sold-out show here.
Concert organizers Mangosteen Music Festival and Jamm announced the Jul 25 will take place at GMM Live House (8/F, Centralworld) whose capacity is around 3,000 people.
Honne, whose last Bangkok show in Mar sold out in lightning quick time, will be joined on the night by local indie acts Mean and The Toys.
Formed in 2014 and consisting of James Hatcher (producer) and Andy Clutterbuck (singer/producer), Honne made a name for themselves through hit EPs Warm on a Cold Night, All in the Value and Coastal Love. Their 2016 debut album, Warm on a Cold Night, included hits like "Someone that Loves You" and "It Ain't Wrong Loving You." Now they're touring to promote their second album Love Me / Love Me Not, due for release in August, which has already spawned popular tracks like "Me&You" and "I Just Wanna Go Back."
Missed out on tickets last time? Console yourself with our interview with the charming duo just moments before the show last year.
Tickets are B1,600 and can be purchased from Ticket Melon from this Saturday, May 19.


In November 2001, it was my pleasure to be in the reception of US congressman Darrell Issa in Cairo. Issa is one of few American congressmen from an Arab origin (Lebanese).
My pleasure did not last long when he gave his speech stating that "September 11 attack on America would not have happened if the US administration followed the method of the Egyptian government dealing with suspect terrorists." That method he mentioned was known and documented to aggressively violate human rights of suspects including fatal torture. It has been often criticized by local and international human rights organizations. Even after discussing his statement with him later, I was not sure if he really meant what he said or was just complementing the few Egyptian ministers attending the reception and has gone too far. Whatever the reason that was behind his harsh statement, it was disappointing for me and bad enough not to be in his farewell. The photo was taken before his speech.


At about 6:45 pm, at least five minutes after Tiller's Gate Closed for the day, Best Cab # 11, (KS Tag No.: VGP-243) driven by the well-known man in a pony-tail came to Tiller's gate carrying two black ladies who were both in their mid-twenties, and who spoke broken English.
At that time, Randy Blasi and I were just finishing putting the Crosses in the back of the Truth-truck.
As the Taxi sat at the gate - apparently waiting for someone inside to open it, I went over and talked to the driver through the window, asking him not to help in this bloody business of killing babies.
The driver shouted obscenities back at me. I continued trying to reason with him, and he began using more profane language, and a higher and higher volume. He was demanding that I leave the area, and I informed him that I was on public property and had every right to be there.
Suddenly, one of the ladies who was in the back seat, opened her side door, on the driver's side, intending to get away from the crazy-acting cab-driver. The driver, with his seat tilted back, used his left arm to try to keep his client from exiting the vehicle. She managed to step out anyway, in spite of his efforts to physically keep her from getting out of the cab.
As she was exiting, he reached out the side door, and grabbed my right wrist, in a way that I thought was going to tear my watch band from my wrist. I pulled my arm away from him, and with my left hand, I tapped his window, on the driver's door twice, lightly with the wrench that we use to close the back of the truth truck, and said to him. "You have no right to assault me!"
When I tapped his window, he bought his left arm back into the cab, leaned forward and proceeded to get out of the cab. Yelling at me - something about killing babies in Vietnam, he hit me in the jaw, but not very effectively, and wrestled the wrench away from me, took the "allen wrench" out of the tool handle and threw it as far away as he could in the grass. Then he took the other part of the wrench, the handle part, and threw that in approximately the same direction.
I resisted my temptation to strike back at him.
With the Cab-driver attacking me, the other lady was able to get out of the cab to get away from him. One of the ladies handed him some money and asked if I would give them a ride to a hotel. I agreed to do so.
The Cab driver, with a now empty Cab got back into the driver's seat.
At that point, the Cab Driver got on the phone, apparently calling the police, but I could not hear what he was saying.
The ladies said that they did not want anything to do with the police, and they walked away, slowly Northbound on the sidewalk on Bleckley Street.
Randy Blasi had stayed by the Truth-truck the entire time, and when the ladies left, he finally came walking over, and offered his cell phone to me, so that I could call the police.
I dialed 911, and told the Emergency Dispatcher that we had an incident at Tiller's gate. The Dispatcher said (words to the effect of): "Are you calling about the situation where the Anti-abortion picketers are pulling the two ladies out of the taxi-cab"?
I said words to the effect of: "No, and that is not what just happened. I was just assaulted by the driver of a Taxi Cab, and his two clients voluntarily left his cab when he started acting crazy."
Six Wichita Police Officers showed up, and took about an hour to sort things out, and to get a report form everyone.
Officer J.M. Camp was in charge of the group.
Case No.: 08C56857 was opened. Officer Camp wants to view the video footage from Tiller's Security Cameras tomorrow to see whose version of the story is correct.
When the officers first arrived, one of the six officers saw the girls about to turn the corner at Bleckley and Kellogg, and he asked if they were the ones in the cab. I told him "Yes" that they were, and he ran and stopped them, apparently to get a statement from them as well.


Discussion in 'Introductions' started by PMulveyhill, Dec 27, 2009.
Hello all.. 12 year Palm user.. got mine after a car accident 'rang my bell' a bit too vigorously... it's my brain annex... need to upgrade.. Palm to be eliminated is a TX that reboots itself when it gets angry... got a Moto Droid and want to lug around just ONE piece of equipment. Looks like there's lots of ways to transfer data. Will read, use, and share any insights. Thank you for getting us all together so we can get thru this transition in as painless a manner as possible. "Change is good... Change is good..."


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Cut оut everything from рrinting, stuffing envelopes and роѕtаgе, tо scanning rесеivеd invоiсеѕ, manually mаtсhing dаtа, filing and аrсhiving рареr сорiеѕ and re-keying invoice dаtа intо the ERP system.
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Tooliers.com: New Online Self-Consulting Service Now Available for Small and Medium Businesses
Amaze Yourself With What YOU Can Achieve Further!
More about Ozana
tooliers.com, the first global cloud-based website for online management and business assessment for small and medium companies, is now available for beta use now at www.tooliers.com. "
tooliers.com is changing the game of business and management consulting with the new concept of 'self consulting' and small companies will benefit the most," said Co-founder Ozana Giusca who is announcing the new website during her presentation today at the O'Reilly conference in San Francisco.
Self consulting means a business owner or executive in any department from finance to human resources to marketing can obtain strategic answers and valuable and intelligent information from a convenient, easy-to-use, and reasonably-priced cloud-based online service.
tooliers.com helps small business owners and managers get the advantages of classic consulting services while avoiding many of the drawbacks such as high cost and tax implications of hiring help.
tooliers.com provides practical and intuitive do-it-yourself business and management tools to make consultants think differently about their services. We welcome the consulting industry as a whole into the Internet era," added Giusca.
Its initial 16 tools are designed to enable entrepreneurs and managers get to the bottom of a problem in an organized and structured way, in the comfort of their own environment, at their own speed and in their own time. The initial product portfolio includes online solutions for business assessment and growth, financial tools, and tools for personal development as leaders.
One tool called Business Lens features analytics and is designed to help business owners better understand their companies and take them to the next level.
"Successful companies like Facebook and Google have changed the rules of the game, while others like Apple, Cisco and IBM have adapted their businesses in recent years and along the way. Others failed to adapt and millions of companies have gone bankrupt. Business Lens helps companies adapt to a rapidly changing business environment so they cannot only survive, but also thrive," Giusca added.
tooliers.com was developed by a team of serial entrepreneurs and seasoned business consultants to make the latest management and business concepts available to small businesses in a user friendly format. Managers, entrepreneurs, and consultants then apply these ideas to their companies.
In recent months, more than 150 entrepreneurs, managers and business consultants have tested the platform and the initial product portfolio featuring 16 management and business tools in a private beta version. Beta customers include Abakos, Anglo-Kuban Developments, The Bankers, GWA Marketing Ltd, Pachiu Associates SCA, Telemanagement BVBA, and Trading Educators. Several name brand banks, consulting firms, and others have used it as well.
tooliers.com features include:
Cloud Benefits: Instant access to featured products from computer and selected mobile devices directly from the cloud with nothing to install.
Portfolio Management: Allows serial entrepreneurs and business consultants to use the tools on a portfolio of companies. With a single account, they can apply any tool to any company.
Dashboard Control: Allows users to access the dashboard from anywhere and manage products, reports, companies, and credits. Entrepreneurs, managers, and consultants can build up their portfolio as they evaluate more aspects of their companies and develop a holistic view of their businesses.
tooliers.com is a tool as a service and is available for beta use at this time. The cost depends on the tool used. Half of the tools are free.
The tooliers.com website is owned by Catalyst Partners Ltd which is headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Romanian-born Serial Entrepreneur and Seasoned Business Consultant Ozana Giusca is the company founder and visionary for the concept of self consulting. The company is @tooliers on Twitter.
For more information, visit www.tooliers.com or www.youtube.com/tooliers.
Ozana Giusca operates via Tooliers.com
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No More Pills? Tiny Nerve-Zapping Implants to Fight Disease
Shelly Fan
Imagine a future where we can treat diabetes or autoimmune disorders with an electrical zap delivered by a device no larger than a speck of dust.
The device, implanted through microsurgery, sits silently on a single nerve bundle, monitoring electrical signals sent out by the brain to itself and various organs in the body.
When it detects a problem — a rogue misfire, or a shift in activity patterns — the device powers up, sending out counter-pulses to correct the signal. In this way, it keeps your body running smoothly and disease at bay. No pills. No injections. No pain.
According to Alphabet and pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), that future is just seven years away.
This week, Verily, Alphabet's life science unit (formerly Google Life Sciences), teamed up with Britain's biggest drug maker to announce their new $715 million venture Galvani Bioelectronics. With research centers based in GSK's biotech hub in the UK and around the Bay Area, the company hopes to develop miniaturized, implantable electronic systems — dubbed "electroceuticals" — to correct irregular nerve pulses that contribute to a multitude of chronic diseases.
Hopes are high. According to Reuters, Kristoffer Famm, head of bioelectronics research at GSK and president of Galvani, says that their first products might be submitted for marketing approval as early as 2023.
Electricity as drugs
Eletroceuticals may sound futuristic, but using electricity to treat disease is nothing new — think pacemakers for correcting wonky heartbeats, or deep brain stimulation for rewiring broken neural circuits in depression and Parkinson's disease.
It's easy to see why electroceuticals are sparking interest. Unlike run-of-the-mill chemical drugs that act on a protein or other molecule, electrical pulses directly hack into the main language of our nervous system to change its operating instructions.
That's a big deal. "The nervous system is crisscrossing our viscera to control many aspects of our organ function," explains Famm in an earlier interview with Nature. Rather than using drugs, which are rarely specific for a single biological process, we could zap a major nerve and, with surgical precision, change the instructions that an organ receives and thereby alter its function.
Electricity can not only jump start a heart or jolt a brain into health, but under the right conditions, a well-placed zap may also coax resistant pancreatic cells to release insulin, persuade clenched arteries to relax, or berate hyperactive immune cells to stop attacking your own tissue.
Rather than developing a library of chemical drugs that targets individual diseases, a single electroceutical prototype could, in theory, be programmed to treat multiple diseases. According to a spokesperson from GSK, Galvani plans to tackle "a wide range of chronic diseases that are inflammatory, metabolic and endocrine disorders, which includes Type 2 diabetes," but adding that the company hasn't yet developed specific product plans.
Galvanizing the field
Last year already saw big wins for electroceuticals. In May, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a device that contracts airway muscles to help people with severe sleep apnea breathe properly without using an oxygen mask. A month later, the agency also gave its nod to an implantable weight-loss device that stimulates a nerve near the stomach to make a person feel full.
To really tap into the potential of electroceuticals, however, the devices will have to get much, much smaller. Nerves are incredibly compact, and unrelated circuits often run in close proximity. Because of this, electrical devices that zap a whole chunk of tissue run the risk of significant side effects — it's like jump starting your car, but also blowing out the fuses in your entire house.
This is where Galvani comes in. By combining engineering, bioinformatics and neuroscience, the company hopes to shrink implanted devices to the size of a grain of rice. Although specific plans are still under wraps, back in 2013 GSK published a roadmap that will likely guide the fledgling company.
"Many of the stepping stones are already in place," wrote Famm and his colleagues.
First, the scientists will need to trace neural circuits that control disease to identify easy access points for intervention. They'll also need to understand the signals running through those circuits in order to build a 'dictionary' of patterns that represent healthy and diseased states. By decoding the neural language, researchers can then program future electroceuticals to understand nerve impulses and, in turn, generate corrective pulses of their own.
Then there's the engineering side of things. Bioengineers will need to design wireless, biocompatible microchips that can reliably perform real-time computation with low power. When implanted through keyhole surgeries, the hope is that these electroceuticals will last at least decades.
According to Famm, the first generation of marketable implants will be roughly the size of an average pill. However, eventually they'll be smaller than a grain of rice.
That goal may not be far off, and Galvani's got serious competition.
An implantable, wireless sensor like this could allow real-time monitoring of nerve or muscle activity anywhere in the body, using external ultrasound to power and read out voltages. In this photo, the sensor mote is attached to a peripheral nerve fiber of a rat. Credit:Ryan Neely/University of California at Berkeley
This week, a team at the University of California, Berkeley published a new wireless, implantable sensor that's only three millimeters (about a tenth of an inch) in length. Aptly named "neural dust," the device contains a piezoelectric crystal that converts ultrasonic vibrations from outside the body into electricity. This energy is then used to power a tiny transistor that contacts both the crystal and a nerve fiber.
When an impulse jolts through the nerve, it tweaks the circuits in the transistor, which in turn change the vibration of the crystal. These tiny flutters are then picked up by an ultrasound receiver and subsequently decoded. In this way, the device lets researchers closely monitor each spike of activity in a nerve.
Although the device is currently "read-only," the team — not associated with Galvani — says that they are developing neural dust that can also stimulate nerves in a self-sustaining, closed-loop system.
Famm seems to welcome a healthy dose of competition in the nascent but burgeoning field.
"Clearly, open innovation … will be important," he wrote back in 2013. Quoting the poet Cesare Pavese, Famm continued, "'If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.' Together we can bring about the era of electroceuticals."
Banner image credit: GSK/YouTube
Shelly Xuelai Fan is a neuroscientist-turned-science writer. She completed her PhD in neuroscience at the University of British Columbia, where she developed novel treatments for neurodegeneration. While studying biological brains, she became fascinated with AI and all things biotech. Following graduation, she moved to UCSF to study blood-based factors that rejuvenate aged brains. She is the ...
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Hee-Kyung's role, as a business leader and social innovator, is to create a sustainable future for CJ Group by driving and coordinating CSV and CSR efforts.
Dr. Heekyung (Jo) Min is the Executive Vice President of Global CSV Management at CJ Cheiljedang Corporation in Korea. By overseeing the integration of CJ's core values with new corporate endeavors, she has helped accelerate social and business innovation at the company. As a head of the company's Social Responsibility Division, she is in charge of CJ Welfare Foundation and CJ Culture Foundation.
Much of her recent work has focused on promoting the importance of sustainable business around the globe. Her commitment to creating shared value was developed through her experience in both the public and private sectors. In her role as the Director General of the Business Opportunity and Investment Promotion Bureau at the Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ) in Incheon, Korea, she was responsible for attracting foreign investment to facilitate the building a new city bordering Seoul. She has also had extensive experience in finance, HR, and cross-cultural management consulting while living and working in New York, Tokyo, and London.
At CJ, she was responsible for the CJ-KOICA Saemaul CSV project, a very successful rural development venture in the Ninh Thuan province, one of the poorest regions of Vietnam. The project involved providing smallholder farmers with the technology and techniques required for chili farming, and building a processing plant. In 2014, she was recognized by the Korean Minister of the Interior for her contributions to rural development in Vietnam, and the project was selected as one of the most innovative projects to watch in Fortune magazine's 2016 "Change the World" list. CJ Group was selected in the Fortune "Change the World" list, again in 2017, for its 'Senior Parcel Delivery Project,' which created jobs for retired senior citizens.
She has spoken at many CSR forums, including the CSR Asia forums in Tokyo and Hong Kong. She spoke at the Grow Asia Convention during the World Economic Forum ASEAN in Hanoi, Vietnam in 2018, the Inclusive Business Forum in Seoul organized by IFC, and the Inclusive Business Forum organized by ADB in Manila in 2016.
She has been involved various other innovative, social development projects especially in women's issues. Through a strategic partnership with UNESCO, CJ has been helping empower young girls in eleven developing countries by providing access to quality education. In 2017, she received UNESCO's Certification of Appreciation for promoting girls' education globally.
In 2014, she received a commendation from the Korean Minister of Gender Equality and Family for her efforts to promote gender equality in the workplace. She was selected as one of the 25 Most Powerful Women in Korean Business by Forbes Korea magazine in 2015.
She holds a Ph. D from Seoul Business School (aSSIST), an MBA from Columbia University, and a BA in music from Seoul National University.
CJ CheilJedang is the core subsidiary in charge of the food and bioengineering business sectors of the CJ Group in Korea. It has led the development of the Korean food industry for the past 60 years and contributed to the development of the bioengineering industry as the nation's top food company.
Launched in 1953 as the first manufacturing company of the Samsung group, CJ CheilJedang has expanded its business to processed foods. CJ group separated from Samsung Group in 1996. CJ CheilJedang is growing into a world-class food company through the development of high-quality convenience foods with advanced food processing technology, cultivation of Korean food brands based on K-Food culture, development of future food resource varieties, selection of function microorganisms, and development of differentiated food materials. CJ CheilJedang is striving to go beyond being the No. 1 in Korea to becoming a global leader in each business sector.


Tannery Grade School Seventh Grade,1952 - 1953!
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1952 - 1953 Tannery Grade School seventh grade class.
You already have this on your web site but some names are missing.
I am listing the names as I have them identified on my picture. I notice that a couple names do not match. Maybe someone else along the way can give more information.
For old times sake I thought you guys might like to post the attached school picture from the Tannery 7th grade class. Elvin Hall and I took a shot at identifying each photograph and this is what we came up with; # 1 Miss Mary Lee Hollingsworth, teacher, # 2 Jimmy Weese, # 3 Donna Gay Downy, # 4 Bob Houghton, # 5 ?, # 6 Kieth Shelton, # 7 Jean Blake, # 8 Buddy Cummings, # 9 Janice Holliday, # 10 Gary Gordon, # 11 ?, # 12 Gerald Blose, #13 Gay Johnson, # 14 Elvin Hall, # 15 Judy Phillips, # 16 Kent Giles, # 17 Polly Weese, # 18 Howard Nailor, # 19 Barbara Peters, # 20 Ronnie Hartshorn (?), # 21 Shirley Meadows, # 22 Dallas Dobson, #23 Linda Dobson, # 24 Paul Vitello, # 25 Steve Trescott, # 26 Nancy Hitt, # 27 ?, # 28 Lanty Lester, # 29 Katie Cutlip, # 30 Bobby Harvey, # 31 Billy Bobblet and #32 Johnny Frame. Most of these are correct but a few I'm not sure about. Maybe some of the old classmates can help us out.
In the 1st row, name #9 was listed as "Janice Holliday" we de-listed Janice Holliday. The correct name is "Barbara Holliday". Thank you for your work in keeping "Old Richwood " alive.


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