Let us help you help your relationship, lezzie introverts.
There are only so many Netflix-and-chill or dinner-and-a-movie date nights you can have with your bae before they get super boring. If you're an introvert who also happens to be dating another introvert, sometimes even getting out of the house can be a struggle. Especially the further along and more comfortable you get in your relationship. Oftentimes, heading to your local bar with a huge group of friends doesn't seem appealing. Neither do double dates.
While I'm definitely more introvert-leaning, I'd like to think of myself as an awesome date planner. I mean, one time I planned a homemade picnic in Central Park second date complete with rosé. I have a little game when it comes to planning romantic and adventurous dates. So let me help you help your relationship, lezzie introverts. We all deserve to go on awesome dates that aren't at a loud and crowded bar!
You can either share this list with bae to figure out the best option for your next date night, or you could try surprising her with a date from this list!
Whether you live in a big metro city or a more rural quiet town — there is definitely at least one art museum or gallery close to you. Look up their exhibits and mark on your calendar when is a good time to go. Meander around with bae in the quiet museum vibe — which is perfect for introverts because silence is encouraged in museums. Afterwards, you can head to a cafe and order decadent desserts while you talk about all the beautiful art you just saw.
There are so many options here, babe. However, this is obviously tailored more for those of us who live in places with all four seasons. Sorry, L.A. lezzies! First step is bundling up in your cutest snowbunny outfits. Then you get to pick — do you want to go ice-skating, sledding, skiing, make snow angels? My personal favorite is ice-skating or sledding. Major bonus points if you pack a thermos full of a hot toddy mix (or hot cocoa if you opt for no alcohol).
Don't do this if one of you is an Aries. It just would end badly. However, this can be a fun way to stay at home in your comfort zone and do something other than order take out and watch "Carol" for the twentieth time. You should pick a theme for your cooking — whether it's a common ingredient like rice or something specific like a homemade Italian dish. You have to learn how to both maneuver around each other in the kitchen (which can be a telltale sign if you vibe well and know how to communicate with your partner) and at the end of the competition, you get to enjoy a delicious meal together! Also, if one of your dishes ends up an epic burnt failure, you still have something to eat.
When the urge to stay in is too strong to resist, lean into it. I'm not here to push all you introverts so far out of your comfort zone that you end up hating each other. But if you're going to stay home, try to do something different than your usual routine. Do you work from home and your lady has to stay late at work one night? Make a cute fort for her to come home to. You know, the kind of forts you made as a kid, rounding up every blanket in the house and taking over the whole living room. Add some Christmas lights to create a romantic ambiance and pour her a well deserved glass of red wine. Now that's my kind of date night (~hint hint~).
A cooking glass, a ceramics class, a Tango class. Wherever your mutual interests intersect, find a class near you. Learning something together can be such an incredible bonding moment –you get to explore this new thing with your girl! Maybe you realize that she's the lead dancer when you always thought you would be. Or it's entirely possibly that one of you takes to the ceramics class instantly and then you get to have a romantic "Ghost" moment where you sit behind her and teach her your newfound skills.
I know this might sound a little silly. But work with me, babe. Found object artwork can be super intriguing because you never know what you're going to come up with. Maybe you find a long lost letter to a lover or some beautiful stones you picked up at the beach this summer. Take whatever you feel drawn to and create something out of it. Having this creative night with your babe can get you feeling connected over what you make together. You might come up with some beautiful new jewelry for each other. Or something to hang on the wall of your first apartment!
Listen, we all have an inner judgy side. Just admit it. It can be fun to let that side of yourself really flourish — within the right context. Going around and judging all your neighbors Holigay lights is the best chance for this! If you really want to go all-out for this date, I'd suggest making categories to vote in and little cards you fill out for each house. Then you can compare and see what you both thought about each house!
You could get boozy and do a wine or whiskey tasting tour. Or you could get fancy and do a chocolate or cheese tasting tour. Whatever your vibe is, there is a tasting tour for you. Sometimes this is a better option than going to the bar for introverts because you have the option to get a little tipsy, while still being in a slower and quieter space. Groupon is a great place to search for all the best tasting tours near you.
The possibilities are endless here and this is the most ideal date for introverts because you get to have a shared experience that gives you something to talk about afterwards. I highly recommend this for ~new couples~ that are still getting to know one another. You can go to a talk, panel discussion, Holigay DIY craft fair, a musical, or see live music. These events don't require much conversation during the actual date but open up all the possibilities for conversation afterwards. Did she love the speakers' opinions? Was the DIY craft a total and utter failure? Dive into it and get to know your date better.
I know you think I'm kidding but I'm not. Going to an animal shelter is literally the cutest date. You get to play with puppies and kittens and squeal in pure joy. There is nothing more amazing than baby animals. They remind us of everything that is good in this world. Just be careful that you don't end up taking one of the cuties home with you!


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February 26, 2015 by whmacken2013 - 0 comments
Observations on media: Bill O'Reilly's excellent wartime adventures and gotcha journalism
Bill O'Reilly's excellent wartime adventures
Oh come on now, Billy.
Bill O'Reilly
Just admit it. You misspoke, fabricated, misled. Oh hell, you lied. You've claimed you reported from the Falkland Islands during the 1982 conflict between Britain and Argentina. Now you're saying you didn't.
"I said I covered the Falklands war, which I did," he says, citing how he covered popular protests in Buenos Aires, about 1,200 miles from the Falklands, as a CBS News reporter.
But the fact is that in 2001 he wrote in his book, "The No Spin Zone: Confrontations With the Powerful and Famous in America":
"You know that I am not easily shocked. I've reported on the ground in active war zones from El Salvador to the Falkland Islands, and in chaotic situations like the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles."
And in 2013, he said in a TV interview that he'd covered a protest "…in a war zone in Argentina, in the Falklands."
Politico was right on when it noted that O'Reilly would likely attempt to dismiss the reporting on his lies by David Corn and Daniel Schulman of Mother Jones by dismissing them "…as left-wing zealots bent on his destruction."
Gotcha Journalism
On the other side of the coin, eporters and opinionators are jamming Republican Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin with inane questions about things they don't really care about, but give them a chance to be annoying.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker
It reminds me of when KOIN-TV played a gotcha game with five U.S. Senate candidates from Oregon in 1995, asking each of them seven questions. Congressman Ron Wyden got all seven wrong and suffered some embarrassment as a result. But few people would probably have gotten them right. One Wyden missed, for example, asked, "What is the average cost for a gallon of milk, a loaf of bread, a gallon of gas, and a pair of Levi's jeans?"
And this was critical to serving effectively as a U.S. Senator?
In Walker's case, a television reporter in London asked him whether he believes in evolution, the Washington Post asked him whether the president is a Christian, and reporters at a National Governors Association meeting in Washington hounded him on whether he agreed with former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani who accused President Obama of not loving America.
Walker's answers, and non-answers, generated media criticism of his qualifications, including an over- the-top opinion column in the Washington Post by Dana Milbank asserting that Walker had "displayed a cowardice unworthy of a man who would be president" and "…ought to disqualify him as a serious presidential contender."
Let the campaign silly season begin.
Obama insists "I'm OK, you're OK" in response to global terrorism
President Obama, speaking to an audience that included unrepentant leaders from repressive countries who couldn't care less and who regularly brutalize their people and deny them basic human rights, argued on Thursday that force of arms was not enough and called on all nations to "put an end to the cycle of hate" by expanding human rights, religious tolerance and peaceful dialogue.
"Oh sure, the al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen actively plots against us, terrorists have murdered ambassadors, Americans have been killed at Ft. Hood and during the Boston Marathon, in Syria and Iraq the terrorist group we call ISIL has slaughtered innocent civilians and murdered hostages, including Americans, and has spread its barbarism to Libya with the murder of Egyptian Christians, we've seen deadly attacks in Ottawa, Sydney, Paris and Copenhagen, the Pakistan Taliban has massacred schoolchildren and their teachers, al-Shabaab has launched attacks from Somalia across East Africa, and in Nigeria and neighboring countries, Boko Haram kills and kidnaps men, women and children," Obama said. "But hey, shit happens."
Calling the slaughter of thousands of Ukrainians by Russian-backed rebels supplied with Russian equipment "a hiccup on the pathway to peace", Obama insisted that the cease-fire that came into effect in eastern Ukraine on Sunday was holding. "The Russians are honorable, peace-loving folks," he said, "and I'm sure that if Putin and I got together he'd be overwhelmed by the force of my personality and insist that the rebels pull back."
As the rebels raised their flag over Debaltseve, Ukraine and celebrated their humiliating defeat of the Ukrainian forces, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed hope that this wouldn't scuttle the peace deal.
Promising "swift, meaningful punishment for those who terrorize peaceful nations", Obama called for another conference to be held at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. that would "offer more strong words in response to beheadings , immolations, child-killing, and other barbarities."
"We'll take an important step forward as governments, civil society groups and community leaders from more than 60 nations will gather in Washington for a global summit on countering violent extremism," Obama said. "Our focus will be on community organizing, which I know a heck of a lot about, and empowering local communities."
Dismissing concerns about his feckless foreign policy, Obama said, " Not to worry. I'm OK you're OK."
If it matters to Oregonians, it's in (The Washington Post) Willamette Week
For those of you who don't remember, Bob Packwood was the first.
Former Senator Bob Packwood (R-Ore)
On Nov. 22, 1992, the Washington Post reported that 10 women had accused Sen. Bob Packwood of sexual harassment. Even though one of The Oregonian's own reporters was among the 10, and the paper had gotten tips about Packwood's behavior, incredibly it had failed to aggressively pursue the matter. The Oregonian's failure to break the story was mortifying for the entire paper.
Adding to the shame was a bumper sticker that began appearing around Portland:
Oregonian editor, Bill Hilliard, later told the Washington Post, in a massive understatement, that his paper "should have been a little more aggressive… We were worried about ruining a man's career."
Neil Goldschmidt was second.
Neil Goldschmidt
Nigel Jaquiss, a reporter at Willamette Week, was researching the role of former Oregon Governor, and later power player, Neil Goldschmidt, in efforts to take over Portland General Electric. He was making good progress on the story, but got hints there was more.
"It was shaping up to be a pretty good story," Jaquiss told the American Journalism Review, "but I kept getting pushed by people… 'There's more you ought to be looking at… There's a girl..'"
Jaquiss' aggressive digging eventually revealed that Goldschmidt, when he was the married Mayor of Portland, had begun raping a neighbor's 14-year-old daughter on a regular basis over a three-year period. Sources said Goldschmidt often took the girl to her parents' basement, to hotels and other private spots for sex.
When Willamette week posted a summary of the story on its website, it spread like wildfire. The Oregonian had been beaten again.
Not only had The Oregonian been beaten again, this time by a local alternative weekly, but The Oregonian made things even worse. When it ran the Goldschmidt story it appeared to many readers to soft-pedal Goldschmidt's actions as "an affair" with "a high school student". Oregonians went ballistic.
A memo of a staff meeting at the Oregonian revealed that there was a lot of internal angst, too. The memo noted: "Steve Duin felt strongly that our coverage today was too reverential. We are dealing with a child molester. He made a very impassioned plea for doing the who knew what when story — lots of people became rich riding Goldschmidt's coat tails — and why they kept it secret. He suggested that readers might think we'd learned nothing from Packwood and that we are hands off people in power."
And now the Kitzhaber-Cylvia Hayes scandal.
John Kitzhaber and Cylvia Hayes
Again, it was Nigel Jaquiss and Willamette Week that broke the story and followed up with bombshell after bombshell.
The Oregonian followed up with some revelations, but it was late to the party. It's most significant role in the evolving saga was to run an editorial on Feb. 4, 2015 calling on Kitzhaber to resign, arguing, "…it should be clear by now to Kitzhaber that his credibility has evaporated to such a degree that he can no longer serve effectively as governor."
What's happening to The Oregonian, once the state's dominant paper of record, now a mere shadow of its former self?
It may sound hackneyed, but great newspapers like the Oregonian were once the indispensable guardians of our freedom. Seasoned reporters have served as watchdogs to ensure good government and reinforce good citizenship. The Oregonian has been a key ingredient of civic dialogue and discourse in the state.
David Simon, a former Baltimore Sun reporter who created the award-winning HBO series The Wire, warned at a U.S. Senate hearing on the "Future of Journalism", that "high-end journalism is dying in America." Oregon can't afford for The Oregonian to be among those at death's door.
Disclosure: I worked as a reporter at The Oregonian during the 80s and 90s.
Brian Williams is gone. So what?
For all the sturm and drang about Brian Williams' banishment from NBC Nightly News, who really cares?
When Walter Cronkite anchored the CBS Evening News, about 28 million viewers tuned in on average.
Today, fewer viewers tune in to CBS, ABC and NBC all together on a typical night.
The most recent State of the News Media study from the Pew Research Center reported that an average of just 22.6 million people watched one of the three commercial broadcast news programs on ABC, CBS or NBC in 2013, only 7 percent of the country's 316.5 million population. And NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, the most-watched program, had an average of only 8.5 million viewers.
Even recognition of nightly news anchors has fallen precipitously. Another Pew Research study reported that in 1985, 47 percent of people polled recognized the face of CBS News anchor Dan Rather. In 2013, just 27 percent recognized Brian Williams.
The age of network evening news viewers is slipping, too, according to Pew Research. While a slight majority (56%) of those 65 and older say they watch nightly network news, only 26 percent of those age 30-49 do and just18 percent of Americans under 30.
Morning news is in trouble, too, with average viewership of 13.4 million. Even the leader, ABC's Good Morning America, averaged only 5.5 million viewers
The networks' Sunday morning political news shows aren't exactly barn-burners either. In the last six months of 2012, Face the Nation on CBS averaged just 2.97 million viewers, NBC's Meet the Press 2.94 million viewers and ABC's This Week 2.57 million viewers.
So where are Americans going for their news?
Not print newspapers. Their circulation has been dropping like a stone. And even though many of the top online news sites belong to print newspaper companies, online ad revenue is far from replacing lost print ad revenue.
"As the digital revolution continues to erode the print newspaper business, the only ones likely to survive will be those backed by the almost unlimited funds of billionaires…," observes Accuracy in Media. The only problem is that the number of struggling newspapers far outnumbers the billionaires willing to save them."
In other words, the present and the future are digital. So much for evening network news anchors. Sorry, Lester.
The ascendancy of Kate Brown
Option 1: No comment
Option 2: "The Governor told me he was not resigning, after which, he began a discussion about transition. This is clearly a bizarre and unprecedented situation."
Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown, Feb. 12, 2015
Jesse Jackson and the outrage machine: now it's about Little League
A couple hours. That's all it took for Jesse Jackson to publicly express outrage about Little League International's decision to strip the U.S. Championship from Chicago's all-black Jackie Robinson West team, and to make it a racial matter.
Jesse Jackson at a Feb. 10 press conference spoke out against the decision to strip Jackie Robinson West of its Little League national title.
Little League International determined on Wednesday that the Jackie Robinson West Little League and Illinois District 4 Administrator knowingly violated Little League International Rules and Regulations. They did so by placing players, otherwise known as suburban ringers, on their team who did not qualify to play because they lived outside the team's boundaries.
Like the ubiquitous Al Sharpton, Jackson inserted himself into the issue by calling a press conference where he told Little League International to reverse its decision and questioned whether its motivations were racial.
"Is this boundaries or race?," Jackson asked, before threatening legal action if Little League doesn't rescind it's decision.
Rev. Michael Pfleger, a Roman Catholic priest and social activist in Chicago, who joined Jackson at the press conference, also raised the race issue.
"When you're going over to voter registration and going to birth certificates and doing all this time of hunting and a witch hunt that's been going on for the last number of months, I can't help but wonder the question if the same thing would have been done with another team from another place, another race," Pfleger said.
Even a player's parent, Venisa Green, jumped on the bandwagon. "It is amazing to me that whenever African-Americans exceed the expectations that there is always going to be fault," she said.
Meanwhile, in the true spirit of fun in kid's sports, Channel 5 NBC Chicago reports that a suburban coach of another Little League Team who raised suspicions about the make-up of Jackie Robinson West said Wednesday that he has received death threats.
So I guess the Jackie Robinson West kids have lost more than the U.S. Championship. They've lost their innocence.
The deification of the Kennedys: Act II
You'd think the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, and the non-stop hagiography of the man by his admirers, would be enough. But no. Another monument to the Kennedys is going up, this one the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Given that Ted Kennedy was only one of more than 1900 Senators in U.S. history, you might expect his extended family and vast network of acolytes would have been satisfied with a Ted Kennedy Room in the adjacent $20.8 million, 135,000 sq. ft. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, all constructed with private funds.
But that obviously wouldn't do. The 68,000 sq. ft. $79 million Edward M. Kennedy Institute, actually costing more than President Kennedy's library and museum when adjusted for inflation, is expected to open to the general public on March 31, 2015. It will be a temple to Ted, complete with a full-scale replica of the current U.S. Senate Chamber, inaugurated in 1859.
The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate
Rendering showing a replica of the U.S. Senate chamber that will be the central feature of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate
Ted Kennedy's shrine will also have extensive museum space for exhibits, a café, classrooms, conference facilities and a gift shop. About all it's missing is an eternal flame.
The gift shop, presumably, will not include replicas of the 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88 that Ted Kennedy drove off Dike Bridge into the channel between Chappaquiddick and Martha's Vineyard in 1969, drowning 29-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne. Nor is it likely to display a plaque noting that Kennedy left the scene and did not notify the police of the midnight incident until the following morning.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's car is pulled from the water on July 19, 1969 after going off a bridge in Chappaquiddick the night before. The body of Mary Kopechne of Washington, D.C., was found in the rear seat. Her death was attributed to drowning.
Nor is it likely the Institute will highlight tales of his drinking and raffish behavior that were part of his public persona, according to the Washington Post.
The extravagant monument to Ted Kennedy is also a monument to the ability to tap into federal money, with $38 million of its construction budget coming from the federal government. Former Massachusetts Senator John Kerry and Rep. Edward Markey tried to get even more appropriated to the lavish project, but failed.
That was a small victory for taxpayers, but with all the more pressing priorities in this country , the whole project should have been scuttled.
February 8, 2015 by whmacken2013 - 0 comments
Hillary & Brian: two peas in a pod
Hillary Clinton surely knows how Brian Williams feels after his lie about being in a helicopter in Iraq that was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade.
In March 2008, Hillary tried to embellish her foreign policy chops by reminiscing about a trip she made to Bosnia in 1996.
"I remember landing under sniper fire," she said. "There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."
The problem was, that never happened. Instead, she disembarked without any disruptions at all, unless you consider a charming little girl greeting her with a poetry reading.
The Washington Post's Factchecker reported that the entertainer, Sinbad, who was also on the trip, refuted Hillary's telling of the story, saying the "scariest" part of the visit was deciding where to eat.
Hillary not only dismissed Sinbad as just "a comedian," but doubled down on the danger she claimed to have encountered. "I was moved up into the cockpit," she told reporters. "Everyone else was told to sit on their bullet proof vests. We came in in an evasive maneuver. Those of you who have been on a C-17 or C-130 know that one of their great characteristics is that they can take off very quickly and they can maneuver agilely to avoid incoming fire. There was no greeting ceremony and we were basically told to run to our cars. Now that is what happened."
Not so. Further media analysis concluded that Hillary and her plane were never confronted by any security threats.
Still, Bill Clinton defended his wife's recollections on the campaign trail, attributing her possible error to her age.
Perhaps it was age that also led Clinton to claim she was instrumental in bringing peace to Northern Ireland. When challenged and accused of substantially inflating her role, including by Nobel Peace Prize winner Lord Trimble of Lisnagarvey who said her claim was a "wee bit silly", Hillary dismissed the criticism as "nitpicking."
Maybe Brian Williams should follow Hillary's lead; just insist that all the uproar over his lying is nitpicking. Instead of being censured, he could end up a candidate for President of the United States.
February 2, 2015 by whmacken2013 - 1 Comment
The emerging 1099 economy: the new sweatshop
If your total income in 2013 put you in the top 40 percent of Americans, you've likely gotten richer over the past 20 years, according to the Federal Reserve. If you are anybody else, your income, after adjusting for inflation, has probably gone down.
This trend will likely continue if the independent contractor business model enabled by technology multiplies. The winners will be the educated, specialized elite with full-time jobs and benefits who file W-2 tax forms; the losers will be independent contractors who file 1099-MISC tax forms.
On-demand worker company TaskRabbit CEO Leah Busque told TechCrunch, a technology news website, that the company's goal is to "revolutionize the world's labor force." It and similar companies relying on independent contractors are accomplishing that if you consider the revolution to be back to the future of sweatshops.
Consider that under current law, independent contractors aren't entitled to:
A minimum wage
Retirement plans.
Job protections
Uber and Lyft, both of which use independent contractors, are two of the best known 1099 companies, but others are sprouting like weeds. They include Homejoy (house cleaners), Handy (home cleaners and handymen), Postmates (couriers deliver goods locally), Spoonrocket (restaurant food delivery), Washio (laundry and dry-cleaning), DogVacay (pet sitting), Zirtual (personal assistants for entrepreneurs and professionals), Kitchensurfing (personal chefs) and TaskRabbit (personal tasks).
Washio allows customers to place laundry and dry-cleaning orders online and sends "ninjas" to pick up and deliver items. Washio doesn't actually do any cleaning; it sends clothes to third party facilities. Independent contractors use their own vehicles, and cover their own costs, to go hither and yon picking up and dropping off clothes.
Online job source TaskRabbit asks people, "What can we take off your plate?" It offers "fully vetted Taskers to get the job done", allowing the customer to "kick back and relax" and pay the bill online when the job is done. TaskRabbit makes its money by taking a 20% service fee off the payment.
TaskRabbit makes it clear that Taskers are independent contractors and that Taskrabbit is no more than " a communications platform which enables the connection between Clients and Taskers."
The company reinforces that message by saying it "…has no liability regarding the Service" and "…is not responsible for the performance of Users, nor does it have control over the quality, timing, legality, failure to provide, or any other aspect whatsoever of Tasks Clients, nor of the integrity, responsibility or any of the actions or omissions whatsoever of any Users."
SherpaVentures, a venture capital firm, predicts that so-called "freelance marketplace" or "managed-service" labor models used by these companies are poised to transform industries like law, health care, and investment banking, and that fewer people will have traditional full-time or part-time jobs as a result.
According to Sherpa, "perpetual, hourly employment is often deeply inefficient for all parties involved, with the employer having to employ long-term workers for short-term needs and the worker missing the independence and productivity that come with freelancing and make workers happier."
Futurist Thomas Frey, predicting 1099 nirvana, asserts that on-demand work will mean freedom. "…those who master the fine art of controlling their own destiny will rise to the inspiring new lifestyle category of "rogue commanders of the known universe," he says.
A shift to independent contracting is more likely, however, to create a permanent underclass with meager, unreliable income, no benefits and few protections.
TaskRabbit CEO Busque says future work will be more flexible and "much more in the hands of what I like to call micro-entrepreneurs—people setting their own schedules, setting their own rates, saying what skills they have and what they're good at."
Valleywag, a Gawker Media tech blog, puts it a little differently: "If TaskRabbit Is the Future of Employment, the Employed Are Fucked"

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Luis Vuitton's Cafe & the Move from Events to Watering Holes (Cafe Society Quick Bite #5)
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Plus The SupperClub on Clubhouse today with Sofar Sounds Founder Rafe Offer & Chase Tucker of Peloton.
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Cafe Society is Maxwell Social's weekly magazine on the intersection of community and society — an anthropological look at the underpinnings of what makes the world tick, written by David Litwak (@dlitwak) and the Maxwell team. Subscribe here and tune into our weekly Clubhouse, The Supperclub on Clubhouse.
Today we're going to discuss how Louis Vuitton's launching of a restaurant reflects a shift in how we gather our communities.
"There is a tendency to get our yearly dose of community outside our communities . . . Burning Man, Coachella, The New Yorker Festival, Art Basel are escape valves to our normal community-free weekly existence, and brands that realize there is an opportunity to provide community on a daily basis instead of a yearly basis will earn a cult following."
But before we get started, a quick update on last week's Clubhouse — our first ever The SupperClub on Clubhouse was a rousing success, 600+ listeners live at one point, so we're doing another one today, and will make it a weekly thing at 4pm EST on Thursdays. Today we're going to be speaking with Rafe Offer, the founder of Sofar Sounds, the pop-up concert in your living room phenomenon on Inclusive Exclusivity, along with Chase Tucker from Peloton, Mark Emil Hermansen from Empirical and Tomos Lovett from WithOthers, with a few more cohosts to be potentially added.
We're going to discuss the themes we touched on in previous articles like Sofar Sounds & inclusive exclusivity, SoulCycle's mistaking exclusivity for community and delve into how you scale an intimate and unique experience while leaving room for the creativity of local artists with Rafe. Tune in at 4pm EST here, and read to the bottom for updates on learnings from last week.
But onto the weekly update —Luis Vuitton is launching a cafe on the 4th floor of their "Maison" in Osaka, Japan in yet another example of what we've termed In-Person 2.0, joining the crew of brands that have started realizing that cultivating community requires more engagement than a once a year conference.
A few months ago we wrote about the next generation of in-person brand experiences:
We've noticed an acceleration of a trend, what we're calling In-Person 2.0. In-person 1.0 was conferences and meet-ups, In-Person 2.0 is permanent physical spaces that serve as homes for the brand's community, as brands realize that community is their biggest moat.
Our examples were Lexus's Intersect restaurant in the Meatpacking District of NYC, BMW's A/D/O space in Brooklyn and Brex's credit card lounge in South Park, San Francisco.
And now it seems Luis Vuitton is adding itself to the list.
On February 1st, the French fashion house will open both a café and restaurant in its new Osaka, Japan maison. This is the first time the brand is venturing into culinary waters.
Both of the inevitable hotspots, Le Café V and Sugalabo V, will feature dishes from famed chef Yosuke Suga, once the protégé of the 32-Michelin star-earner Joël Robuchon.
As Vogue continues . . .
Louis Vuitton is among a number of luxury brands that have begun pairing their clothing with serious culinary stars. Tiffany opened its Blue Box Café in 2017 to lines around the block, and New York's new Nordstrom teamed up with James Beard-nominated chef, Ethan Stowell, for its restaurant Wolf. Meanwhile, Saks Fifth Avenue has L'Avenue, the second outpost of the famed Parisian bistro, with its own entrance on 50th street. As retail seeks to separate itself from its online counterpart, it's all about presenting a complete experience.
And Business Insider further elaborates:
There is also Ralph Lauren, which has been operating a massively popular restaurant in New York and a coffee bar in London. Burberry, meanwhile, operates Thomas' Cafe in London.
I'll admit I hadn't heard of half of those myself and I track this pretty closely, but it's pretty ridiculous how many people are jumping on the bandwagon.
Our view has always been that In-Person 1.0 was events — conferences and meetups, sporadic community gatherings. Every major brand has a conference these days, from Salesforce to Facebook, from the New Yorker to Vogue. It was only a matter of time before they thought about engaging their fan base in person more than once a year.
Community centric businesses were the exception back in the day of Tupperware parties, but today everyone is realizing that every business is a community business, even Louis Vuitton.
I view it as part of a wider trend that is true for more than just brands. Many people innovating in the community space have done so with retreats/events first, from Summit Series to Davos and Tulum and festivals like Burning Man or even Coachella and Outside Lands, there is a tendency to get our yearly dose of community outside our communities.
People are desperate enough for these regular community events that we're repurposing gatherings that have nothing to do with our communities for ourselves — last year I was invited to the Sundance Film Festival for the first time since I went 10 years ago with my father, who works in film. The invite came from a tech entrepreneur who has nothing to do with the movie industry, had never expressed any interest in it before, and who was organizing a house share for fun. I remember I turned to a friend and said that Sundance had become Art Basel, the art fair that every east coast cool kid descends upon in Miami mainly for the parties, regardless of actual interest in art.
But I can't blame them — these events are escape valves to our normal community-free weekly existence, and brands that realize there is an opportunity to provide community on a daily basis instead of a yearly basis will earn a cult following.
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Fetal Three-Dimensional Echocardiography
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28 Fetal Three-Dimensional Echocardiography
Rima S. Bader, David J. Sahn
I. WHY A FETAL SCAN IS A CHALLENGE
A. Obstacles
1. In the pediatric or adult patient, predetermined windows are used to obtain standardized views of the heart.
2. Obstacles to views in the fetus.
a. The size of the heart varies as a function of gestational age.
b. The fetal position can vary during the examination.
(1) This makes imaging of structures more difficult.
(2) It prevents consistent acquisition of any specific view.
c. Fetal movement during the examination can result in not acquiring all of the diagnostic images for analysis.
d. Oligohydramnios can make imaging more difficult.
e. Acquiring the images of the heart can be time consuming.
B. Evaluation
1. For effective conversation with the parents, interpretation must be done in real time, either during the examination or quickly after reviewing digital records.
2. Given these potential obstacles, evaluation of the fetal heart is one of the most challenging diagnostic tasks the fetal examiner encounters during an early second- or third-trimester ultrasound examination.
II. OVERVIEW
A. Superiority to two-dimensional echocardiography
1. Accurate quantification of:
a. Volumes of the right ventricle (RV) and left ventricle (LV).
b. LV mass.
c. LV ejection fraction without the need for geometric assumptions.
2. Improved visualization of:
a. Spatial relations between cardiac structures, which is important when assessing complex congenital heart disease.
b. Views of valve structures.
(1) Three-dimensional (3-D) views are not readily obtained from conventional two-dimensional (2-D) images, regardless of fetal position.
(2) For example, en face views of the mitral valve apparatus from either an atrial or ventricular perspective can offer a unique insight into the physiology of valve mechanics.
B. Disadvantages
1. In its current format, 3-D echocardiography is difficult to acquire.
2. Data analysis is cumbersome.
3. Particularly in the fetal arena, there are ongoing limitations to image resolution of more diminutive cardiac structures.
C. Scanning methods
1. Free-hand scanning using mechanical or nonmechanical positional locators.
2. Gated or spatiotemporal realigned acquisition.
3. Matrix array–based volume imaging transducers to obtain real-time 3-D or gated volume data sets.
III. THREE-DIMENSIONAL TERMINOLOGY AND PHYSICS
The most important developments for accomplishing the transition to fetal echocardiography from 2-D to 3-D echocardiography are real-time 3-D imaging and spatiotemporal realignment motion gating. Real-time means there is no significant delay between acquisition and display.
A. Terminology
1. The most commonly used term is real-time.
a. Real-time 3-D imaging.
b. Real-time four-dimensional (4-D) imaging.
c. Real-time volumetric imaging.
2. The actual volume rates to which they refer vary from 8 Hz to 24 Hz.
B. Physics
1. Overview.
a. It is generally stated that the human eye and brain retain a visual impression for about 1/10 to 1/30 of a second, equivalent to a frame or volume rate of 10 to 30 Hz.
b. The exact time depends on the brightness and clarity of the image and pattern recognition.
c. When referring to real-time imaging, we are actually talking about whether an imaging system can achieve the visual continuity that will satisfy the human eye and brain.
2. Built-in, spatial, and temporal realignment of 4-D data.
a. It is hard to consistently find a stationary volume of interest in utero due to unwanted patient movements (e.g., fetal activity, maternal respiration) and/or environmental movements such as abdominal deformation from probe movement when using conventional approaches.
b. Real-time 3-D systems can acquire a volume data set without manual displacement of the transducer.
(1) This is achieved by using a built-in mechanism for registering spatial and temporal information during a volume scan.
(2) Example systems include:
(a) Philips Live 3D Echo (Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV, Eindhoven, Netherlands), based on matrix-array transducer technology.
(b) Philips and Siemens volume scanners. The new Siemens S class scanner also offers real-time full volume 4D "Echo in a Heartbeat."
(c) The Philips (iU22 and iE33) and Siemens Antares products.
(d) GE Voluson 730, which is based on rapidly oscillating cross-sectional transducer technology of spatiotemporal realignment.
3. Sufficient temporal resolution for the time scale of interest.
a. For general analysis of dynamic anatomy of the fetal heart, a minimum volume rate of about 15 to 25 Hz is required with fetal heart rates of 150 bpm or more. This is equivalent to a maximum of 40 ms for each imaging volume sampling period.
b. Except for isovolumetric contraction and relaxation, other cardiac phases each rarely last longer than 80 ms (rounded numbers are used in this discussion for mathematical simplicity) and can be fully sampled at least once in one imaging volume per cardiac cycle.
c. To achieve 90% accuracy for the measurement, a 500-Hz volume rate may be necessary.
(1) This is far beyond the capability of any of the current real-time 3-D systems.
(2) Therefore, none of the existing systems is capable of direct-volume scanning for analyzing this important phase.
IV. THREE-DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY SYSTEMS
A. Rapidly oscillating cross-sectional transducer
1. Volumetric scanning.
a. Volumetric scanning is less dependent on the angle of acquisition, and thus less dependent on fetal lie or operator expertise, than 2-D scanning.
b. The most promising aspect is the possibility of storing and compressing a volume of 4-D information for later offline evaluation by an expert.
c. Because the heart is beating, nongated acquisition produces artifacts in the reconstructed volume data.
2. Spatiotemporal image correlation (STIC).
a. Description.
(1) One new technology available on the Voluson 730 Expert series and Voluson E8 (GE Medical Systems, Kretz Ultrasound, Zipf, Austria), as well as the Philips iU22 and Philips iE33, is spatiotemporal image correlation (STIC).
(2) STIC is automatic volume acquisition through the fetal heart, resulting in a complete fetal cardiac cycle displayed in motion in an endless 3-D cineloop sequence.
(3) The array inside the transducer housing performs a slow, single sweep, recording one single 3-D data set over an area of 15 to 40 degrees, offering information on the entire fetal heart, including surrounding structures, with the heart in motion.
(4) If the acquisition begins at the level of the four-chamber view, a real-time motion sequence of a sweep from 15 to 40 degrees cranial and caudal to the four-chamber view is obtained, also giving the possibility of a multiplanar view.
b. Method.
(1) The acquisition is performed in two steps.
(a) First, images are acquired by a single, automatic volume sweep.
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On March 29 2018 the Israel Antitrust Authority (IAA) published a draft amendment to the Antitrust Rules (Block Exemption for Non-Horizontal Arrangements Which Do Not Include Certain Price Restrictions) 2013 (also known as the Vertical Block Exemption) for public comment.
The amendment aims to expand the substantive self-assessment of vertical arrangements and was published as a response to Supreme Court rulings which called for a more lenient approach to vertical arrangements and practitioner criticism of the current Vertical Block Exemption.
The amendment reflects a more general trend in Israeli antitrust law towards a substantive self-assessment regime (for further details please see "Major overhaul of Restrictive Trade Practices Law proposed"). The broadening of the self-assessment regime is a positive development. It will allow the IAA to focus its resources on arrangements which raise serious competitive concerns, while reducing to a certain extent the regulatory burden imposed on private parties.
The IAA published the Vertical Block Exemption in 2013 to address the deficiencies of Israel's restrictive arrangement regime, which was based on a broad prohibition of business practices. For many years, there was no real distinction between vertical and horizontal arrangements; both were deemed illegal unless they met the formalistic market share-based block exemptions or were exempted by the antitrust commissioner. The Vertical Block Exemption provided the ability to apply a substantive self-assessment to certain types of vertical arrangement for the first time. The explanatory notes explained that the IAA sought to make Israeli antitrust law compliant with foreign antitrust regimes (mainly the EU and US regimes), where vertical arrangements are normally scrutinised under a self-assessment regime.
it would be willing to broaden the scope of the Vertical Block Exemption in the future.
Since the Vertical Block Exemption's enactment, a self-assessment approach has been applied in various contexts (eg, in block exemptions applying to the aviation and liner shipping industries). More recently, the IAA suggested expanding the self-assessment approach to certain types of horizontal arrangement. Against this background, the IAA also proposed to amend the Vertical Block Exemption.
The main prerequisites for the Vertical Block Exemption and the suggested amendments thereto are as follows.
an investment by one competitor in another.
the arrangement aims to limit the competitive overlap between the parties (eg, non-compete clauses).
applying a more economics-based approach (although not one that entirely overlaps with a market definition approach).
Further, the revised definition explicitly excludes dual distribution situations from the definition of horizontal arrangements. However, the revised definition is vague and inexhaustive, thereby imposing a great level of uncertainty on private parties. It can only be hoped that the IAA will issue detailed guidance to allow for a more reasoned implementation of the revised Vertical Block Exemption.
The Vertical Block Exemption does not apply to vertical arrangements that contain certain price restrictions (mainly minimum resale price maintenance). The IAA's position was that vertical price restrictions raise a significant level of competitive suspicion and should thus be reviewed.
The amendment suggests cancelling this condition, so that the Vertical Block Exemption covers price restrictions (including minimum resale price maintenance), subject to a substantive self-assessment. The annulment of this condition conforms to the Supreme Court's 2015 Shufersal decision, according to which vertical restraints cannot automatically be presumed to harm competition and should be scrutinised under a substantive standard.
This requirement is similar to the EU concept of self-assessment. It requires the parties to an agreement to conduct a comprehensive and fact-based economic market assessment of the agreement's potential impact on competition. This condition remains unchanged.
The proposed amendment has been published for public comment until May 29 2018.


CMBA has adopted FIBA rules for the 2007/2008 season in accordance with an initiative by Canada Basketball.
As a help to parents and friends, who from time to time, get asked to be the score keeper or time keeper for a game, the following is a brief job description of each position.
Please remember that both the score keeper and the time keeper are minor officials for the game. Please assist each other in your duties.
At the end of the game, the score keeper and the time keeper must sign the score sheet in the space provided.
The score keeper will be responsible for marking the score sheet and changing the possession arrow.
It is recommended to use a different color ink to mark the score sheet for the first half and the second half.
The score keeper is recognized as a minor official for the game. Proper decorum will be used at all times and includes no outward signs of bias, no coaching and no disrespectful conduct to the on-court officials, players, coaches and spectators.
CMBA expects the home coach to arrive at the game with a score sheet filled in with the Game Number, Date, Location, Category, Team Name, Complete Team Roster, Players Numbers and Coach's Names. In the event the coach has not filled in the score sheet as described above please ask the coach to supply the information for you to fill in. Home team sits to the right of the score table and the visiting team sits to the left of the score table.
The time keeper will be responsible for operating the time clock and showing the game score on a flip chart or electronic score clock.
The time keeper is recognized as a minor official for the game. Proper decorum will be used at all times and includes no outward signs of bias, no coaching and no disrespectful conduct to the on-court officials, players, coaches and spectators.


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Dedication of the site of the future College of the Rockies — Cranbrook
College of the Rockies turns 40
COTR president speaks of the way forward into the future
The East Kootenay's post-secondary institution is marking an important milestone next week.
College of the Rockies is inviting all students, alumni, community partners and current and former employees to help celebrate its 40th anniversary at an event set for Tuesday, Feb. 2, from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
The event is billed as "a wonderful chance to reconnect with old friends and to learn what the future holds for the College's next chapter."
The College with it's seven regional campuses, has come a long ways since James Patterson, a miner from Kimberley and member of the local school board, first approached the provincial government in Victoria, along with other interested parties, and initiated the process of establishing a vocational school in the East Kootenay.
East Kootenay Community College was established on May 8, 1975 with an edict from the government that the main campus be constructed in Cranbrook. It was to offer vocational, technical and academic courses and Dr. Gary Dickinson became its first Principal in June of that year.
The first classes took place on October 6, 1975 and the number of registered students that first year was 351 in Cranbrook, 64 in Kimberley, 52 in Fernie, 39 in Golden and 37 in Invermere. From 1975 to 1982, while a new facility was being constructed, courses were delivered in various venues in Cranbrook (the college operated out of 17 different locations in Cranbrook) and in high school classrooms in the other communities during the evening.
Since then, the College has come to serve a regional population of more than 82,000 people and 45,000 square kilometre area. Since the 130,000 square-foot Cranbrook campus opened in 1982, it has grown with additions and renovations, expansions. The College has developed partnerships with the Ktunaxa First Nations and other universities, developed a glowing reputation for its international students, become the first step in a post-secondary career for local young people, and become a degree-granting institution in its own right.
Since Dickinson's tenure as "principal" (1975-77), six others have served as the College's President. Mr. David Walls, who took over the helm in 2013, spoke to the Townsman about the College's place in the communities of the region, and its way forward into the future.
It's important the community recognizes the College's place in the community — a part of the community, not apart from the community.
"Everyone recognizes that we're an important presence in the community, and they hear about things that we're doing, but don't always feel as well connected to us as they would like to," Walls said.
"We're working on developing a stronger college brand and a stronger presence. For part of our 40th anniversary, we'll actually be rolling out a new branding strategy and a new way forward."
A key aspect of the College's presence is the fact that local young people can begin their post-secondary careers at home, including starting university degrees.
"We've got partnerships in place with the University of Victoria, for example, and the University of Lethbridge, where they can begin their degree here, and actually enroll at those universities the same time they enroll with us," Walls said. And they're taking university level courses, and the credits they get are then transferable direct to those universities. Once they've completed 24 credits with us, they get guaranteed admission and take those 24 credits, or more, with them.
"So really, it's much more affordable for local students to do that here. If they're at home they're not paying for Vancouver or Victoria kinds of accommodations. Plus, tuition fees are cheaper and class sizes are smaller.
Walls said that students' chances of success are shown to be greater "when they actually start out their university careers here.
"So we really present a good opportunity for young people to begin a post-secondary career.
"We're hoping as we move forward that we can encourage more students to take that opportunity."
Trades training is as important as ever for the College. But over the years the entire concept of college education has grown as well, including at COTR.
"That's maybe the old view of a college, as opposed to a university," Walls said. "It used to be that a college focuses on trades training, and a university focuses more on academic programing.
"But really, that boundary has blurred. Trades are still important for us. We have about 600 students who come to us every year that take a variety of trades, either as apprentices or to take a certificate program to get into a trade. But they're really only about 20 per cent of the story of what the College is about.
"I think that's part of the lack of understanding. To some extent we get thought of as the trade college, but we are so much more than that. The important thing we're going to emphasize moving forward is that the concept of college education has definitely changed."
Part of the ongoing change at COTR is an increasing presence of international students. In fact, COTR has received accolades for its work with students from other countries, having been voted two years in a row as being number one for international student satisfaction. "To put that in context there were about 160 colleges and universities who took part in the study around the world," Walls said.
"We have students from about 35 different countries, who come and live in the community. Last year we were about 11 per cent international students and we have targets to move up to about 15 per cent of our student population."
This growing global approach works both ways.
"We're trying to present different opportunities, as well, for our (domestic) students to go abroad, and incorporate some international experience as part of their training."
COTR also works internationally on a college to college level.
"We also participate in international projects overseas. We do a lot of development work through government or private corporations where we help other colleges (in Kenya), where we help raise their standards of post-secondary education."
Walls was asked about the future; what, for example, the College will look like in 20 years.
"Last year, we served more than 3,000 students who were enrolled at our seven campuses," he said. "What I see in the future is some steady growth on that, driven by both increases in domestic and international students. We're also getting more involved in really working with the community — we want our students when they're here to have an experiential learning piece as part of their program where they'll spend some time getting to know how industry operates and how business operates within our community. That's built into their learning, so there's more than just the classroom side as well.
"We really want to extend that presence where we're much more integrated with the community. That's part of our vision moving forward — just to be a growing, vibrant institution as we march forward."
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"Technical assumptions" and "lack of transparency" behind Boeing 737 MAX crashes
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The US government's House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Democratic has blasted both Boeing and the FAA in a 250-page final report which lists a catalogue of errors within the development of the Boeing 737 MAX.
The publication of the report follows an 18-month long investigation by the committee. The 737 MAX has been grounded since March 2019 after two fatal crashes which killed 346 people.
The report lists failures in both the plane's design and the government approval of the aircraft. The Committee found that: "Boeing failed in its design and development of the MAX, and the FAA failed in its oversight of Boeing and its certification of the aircraft."
Culmination of errors and assumptions
The review said the crashes and resulting loss of life were caused by the culmination of these errors and assumptions coupled with insufficient oversight from regulators. It added that the crashes "were not the result of a singular failure, technical mistake, or mismanaged event."
"They were the horrific culmination of a series of faulty technical assumptions by Boeing's engineers, a lack of transparency on the part of Boeing's management, and grossly insufficient oversight by the FAA — the pernicious result of regulatory capture on the part of the FAA."
A statement by Boeing said it had "learned many hard lessons as a company from the accidents… and from the mistakes we have made. As this report recognizes, we have made fundamental changes to our company as a result, and continue to look for ways to improve."
FAA pledges to improve organisational processes and culture
The FAA also pledged to implement improvements identified in the report. It said it was: "focused on advancing overall aviation safety by improving our organisation, processes, and culture."
The report outlined "faulty design and performance assumptions" which were made by Boeing, particularly in relation to an air safety software system called MCAS, which was identified as a contributing factor in both the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes. The system, which was designed to help counter a tendency of the MAX to pitch up, was found to activate after data from only a single sensor.
The report added that Boeing had withheld "crucial information from the FAA, its customers, and 737 MAX pilots" which had also included "concealing the very existence of MCAS from 737 MAX pilots."
The FAA has required new safeguards to be implemented to the MCAS system, including the requirement of it to receive data from two sensors, before allowing the MAX to return to service.
Boeing failed to disclose existence of MCAS in crew manuals
The report said the safety of the aircraft had been compromised through Boeing employees being granted permission to represent interests of the FAA. It added that the manufacturer had "failed to disclose important information to the FAA that could have enhanced the safety of the 737 MAX."
Boeing did not disclose the existence of the MCAS system within its crew manuals and sought to convince regulators not to require more expensive simulator training for MAX pilots. Boeing has since agreed to back simulator training before pilots resume flights in the MAX.
The report added that the FAA had "failed to ensure the safety of the travelling public."
"Tragedy that never should have happened"
Publication of the report has led to a number of proposed reforms which will restructure how the FAA oversees aircraft certification. A Senate committee will take up a reform bill today. The committee has suggested Boeing was wanted to cut costs to get the 737 MAX to market quickly.
House Transportation Committee chairman Peter DeFazio said: "This is a tragedy that never should have happened. We're going to take steps in our legislation to see that it never happens again as we reform the system."
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Swati Nagar is a Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Temple University School of Pharmacy. She obtained her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics at the University of Minnesota in 2003. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Pharmacology at Fox Chase Cancer Center in 2005. Swati joined Temple University School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2005 as Assistant Professor, and was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure in 2011. She teaches Pharm D and graduate pharmacokinetics. Her lab has a long-standing interest in understanding the disposition of conjugated metabolites, specifically the pharmacokinetics of metabolites with respect to their formation and transport. Further, in collaboration with Dr. Ken Korzekwa, she is developing methods to better understand complex kinetics of time-dependent inhibition. Another key collaborative area of research with the Korzekwa lab is developing models to predict intracellular concentrations in the presence of drug transporters.
Swati has co-authored 41 peer-reviewed research and review articles, and she co-edited a book titled 'Enzyme Kinetics in Drug Metabolism: Fundamentals and Applications' published in 2014 (Springer/Humana Press). Swati is a past Chair of the Delaware Valley Drug Metabolism Discussion Group, past faculty advisor of the AAPS/Temple University student chapter, outgoing Chair of the AAPS PPDM Drug Metabolism Focus Group, incoming PPDM Vice-Chair, Vice-Chair of the 2017 Gordon Research Conference on Drug Metabolism, a member of the steering committee of the International Transporter Consortium, and a member of several professional organizations such as AAAS, ASPET, AAPS and ISSX. She currently serves on the editorial board of Drug Metabolism and Disposition.


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Zoey lived a normal life, went to a normal high school with her best friend and was even dating one of the football players- well, kind of dating him. But that all changed when she saw the dead guy standing by her locker. Instead of worrying about a geometry test, she now had to face a whole new life- as a whole new species. Zoey Redbird, newly turned fledgling, now has to live at the House of Night, The school of vampyres. It's bad enough her life has already been turned upside down, but she quickly starts learning that she may be more special than she realizes. After a run-in with the Vampyre Goddess Nyx, she learns she has affinities for not one element, but all of them: Fire, Water, Earth, Air, and Spirit. So much for blending in. But she's not the only one with special powers. The leader of the elite Dark Daughters club is abusing her goddess-given gifts, and Zoey has to find the courage the embrace whatever destiny awaits her- with the help of her new friends, of course.
At first, I had no desire to read this book. But once I started, I couldn't stop. This book is not only dominated by strong female characters, but it also includes LGBTQ+ characters that aren't just there for "diversity." The story is intriguing, there's drama and conflict, love and loss, no character is there just because. Everyone plays an important role. Overall, this is a great book and I would highly recommend it to anyone who is willing to dedicate themselves to not just this book, but the series as well, as there are twelve (12) main books in the series. However, it is definitely worth it.
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Written by John Green, The Fault In Our Stars is a beautiful book that will move anyone to tears. The book follows Hazel Grace Lancaster, a teenager diagnosed with thyroid cancer three years prior, and her life with the illness. Much to introverted Hazel's interests-who would much rather read all day- her mother decides it's time for her to attend a support group at church with other cancer survivors/victims- (due to her showing signs of depression)which is where she meets the charming Augustus Waters. Augustus-a cancer survivor – attends the group to support his terminally ill friend Isaac. Augustus and Hazel hit it off instantly and are soon inseparable. Hazel tells Augustus about her favourite book, An Imperial Affliction and they both have many questions about the book-yet cannot contact the author. So, using his Make-A-Wish wish, Augustus takes Hazel to Amsterdam. When they get there, Augustus tells Hazel he´s been hiding all along- his cancer came back, much worse than ever before. Will he survive? Will their relationship stay strong throughout this difficult time? This book brings you through a roller coaster of emotions and was so good that it was turned into a movie in 2014 (earning $307.2 million!).
The first time I read the book, I thought it was wonderful as it had everything the typical YA adult book had; the smart, strong-willed female with the charming male love interest. Later re-reading it, I realized the character's personalities were very unrealistic and cliche. She used large words into everyday sentences which would never happen and acted like she was 27, and not 17. The way Hazel and Augustus instantly hit it off was also questionable as that would never happen in real life. Readers over 16 might find some parts cheesy, however, it was still a very good book.
The book was very hard to put down and I was able to finish it in a day since it was that interesting. It will be a favourite for many if they are into books like Love,Simon, Everything Everything, Five Feet Apart, etc.
Khadeeja F.
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By Anna Todd
After by Anna Todd is about a girl named Tessa who has the perfect life, and the rest of her life planned out by her mother. She already knows that her best friend turned boyfriend, Noah, and herself will be happily married together right after she finishes college-but everything changes when she actually gets to college. When Tessa reaches her dream college, she instantly realizes how different everyone is from her. Her roommate has a peculiar friend group with everyone just wanting to get together. One friend, in particular, Hardin Scott, comes to Tessa's attention for being so ignorant and rude to everyone. Hardin likes to keep to himself and go from girl to girl never really opening up to them. You would think this shouldn't be a problem for Tessa since she has a boyfriend, but no. This just attracts Tessa to him even more, being disloyal to Noah. Despite their differences, Hardin and Tessa always seem to find a way to each other and eventually are in a relationship which is the most toxic thing ever. Perfect Tessa and troubled Hardin with a horrible past who is a very mean drunk due to his father, and gets drunk constantly could not be more different and are fighting constantly. They fight constantly but are both sure they are made for each other At the end of the book, Tessa learns the biggest secret that Hardin kept from her-which leads to the next book. This book used to be a One Direction fanfiction that was first published on WattPad but characters were changed due to copyright purposes (Harry Styles turned into Hardin Scott, etc.) however, it has nothing to do with the band. It had over 1 billion reads online which is what turned it into a hardcopy book, and now a movie.
What I really didn't like about the book was Tessa's whole character. She always thought he was cheating on her when if anything he should be worried about her since she literally cheated on Noah for him. She also never trusted him and was pretty much entitled. Also, this book promoted toxic relationships as romance. Yet, these things made the book better because I loved to make fun of Tessa's illogical decisions.
The author does a really good job of making Hardin a likable character, despite his rude personality, which is really difficult to do. This book was very addicting and impossible to put down. This book is pretty graphic and resulted in me skipping pages to chapters at times to avoid reading it. For that reason, I'd recommend the book to anyone 15+.
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Does My Head Look Big In This?
January 8, 2020 by Caitlin·0 Comments
by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Amal is a sixteen-year-old Australian-Muslim-Palestinian living in Australia during the 2000s. She decides to start wearing a hijab, a religious head covering, in order to practice her religion to the fullest. She lives in a very "white" neighbourhood yet she doesn't let the constant taunting get to her.
The kids at her school along with many teachers judge her based on prejudice, yet she doesn't let them get to her because she just could not care any less about anyone's opinion-almost everyone's opinion. She does, however, care deeply about Adam, one of the few kinder kids in her class who she is sure she can win over. As the book progresses, she does start to get affected by the words and all the other struggles in her life- such as her friend Laila who does not want to get married at seventeen, much to her parents' wishes, winning Adam over, and helping her friend Simone get over her body dysmorphia. Her parents, as kind as they are, just do not understand what she's going through, as much as they like to say they do. Like every great book, the antagonist, Tia and her "army" are always at her neck and belittling Amal for her faith. Her source of strength are her friends, who are outcasts as well, due to being Jewish, nerdy, "fat", and Japanese. Will anything ever go right for her or will she always live her life in constant misery, especially being Muslim in a post 9/11 era?
The novel will appeal to anyone who has ever felt like an outsider, ever. The thing that makes it such a great novel is that it is funny, yet still sad, all whilst being entertaining- which is very hard to do. I've read the book at least seven times, but it never gets old or repetitive. The many different storylines tied up into one makes the book so interesting because not only are we following Amal's journey, but her friends, and the world after the 9/11 attack.
The novel will appeal to anyone who has ever felt like an outsider, ever. Due to language, the book would be suitable for anyone 13+.
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Starsight
By Brandon Sanderson
In this sequel to Skyward, Brandon Sanderson takes readers on an unforgettable space adventure.
Spensa has made it. Like her father before, Spensa has become a pilot. Also like her father, Spensa can hear the stars. When she travels beyond the protection of her planet, Spensa discovers that her ability is stronger, and more real then she first realized.
Now, she must find herself amongst a galaxy she has never explored. And learn that the stars do not always have the answers.
Brandon Sanderson has created a flawless sequel to Skyward. A truly gripping and suspenseful novel, readers will not want to put it down. Recommended to readers who like space operas and a plot driven book.
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This book picks up right where the last one left off—that is, with Eadlyn's brother having just eloped and her mother having just suffered a heart attack. Caught in the middle of two crises, Eadlyn decides to narrow down her Selection to six suitors, who now comprise the Elite. She also announces that, until his wife has recovered and he is ready to return to work, she will take over for her father as regent.
Try as she does to cope with an onslaught of change and a whirlwind of requests and demands, Eadlyn's finding it harder and harder to hold her ground. Her advisors chastise her, the public hurls remarks of disapproval, and even the Selected are getting impatient. Will Eadlyn make it to the end of the competition to claim her "happily ever after," or will she succumb to a pressure she never thought she would face? Find out in 'The Crown'!
I was hoping Kiera Cass would redeem herself with this book the way she did with 'The One.' Sadly, that didn't happen. In fact, I could almost feel her tiredness—her anxiousness just to be done with this book—seeping through the pages. It was as if she didn't have enough energy to write another sweeping, fairy tale romance, so she settled for an itinerary. I liked that there was some character development, and I liked getting to see Eadlyn take charge of her life, but everything else felt so rushed, so simple. There wasn't any depth.
My biggest complaint, however, was that Eadlyn didn't end up with the person I wanted her to end up with. I won't give anything away, but I'll warn you that you might be disappointed.
Catey F.
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December 25, 2019 by Caitlin·0 Comments
Twenty years have passed since America Singer and Maxon Schreave were married. Now their daughter, a reluctant Princess Eadlyn, must make her own Selection. Eadlyn opens her home to thirty-five suitors, among them a boy she's known (and hated) her whole life, a boy who doesn't speak English, and a handful of troublemakers. At first, she wants nothing more than to return to the single life she's comfortable with, but the more time she spends with her guests, the more difficult it becomes for her to imagine life without them. On every date and after every kiss, she learns something about herself, she learns something about her people, and she questions what she thought she knew about love.
I wasn't sure how to rate this book. I hovered between two and three stars, but I decided to go with two for a couple of reasons. First, the writing felt a little dull. Second, while I did admire how open-ended this book was—I think it's one of the first love stories I've read where it wasn't clear right from the beginning who the main character was going to end up with—, I realized I wasn't all that crazy about any of the candidates. There's one I hold slightly above the others, but even he got on my nerves a few times.
Then there was the main character herself. I saw parts of myself in Eadlyn, but I also saw a whole lot of spoiled brat. She spends half of her time asking for pity and the other half flaunting her superior status. What kind of a princess says things like, "Didn't they know who I was, what they'd trained me for? I was Eadlyn Schreave. No one was more powerful than me"?
After a series of mishaps, culminating in her call for an end to the caste system on national television, King Clarkson was eager to send America Singer home. Now that she's convinced him to let her stay, to rejoin the Selection and compete for Prince Maxon's heart, she will have to be on her best behaviour. It won't be easy—the Northern rebels will force her to take risks, the Southern rebels will enrage her, the king will test her to the limit, and the web of secrets and lies she's been spinning will threaten to collapse.
At the same time, America has trouble admitting her feelings to Maxon. It's not that she doesn't love him, or that she thinks he doesn't love her, she's just afraid of losing him. To Celeste, who fears a life outside the spotlight. To Elise, who is desperate to please her family. Or to Kriss, who wants Maxon almost as much as she does. Find out who will take the crown in The One, the enchanting conclusion to America's story.
I don't know why, but I had a feeling Kiera Cass would redeem herself with this book. I was right! It was so much better than 'The Elite'! There were a couple of things I didn't like, a few situations I thought could have been handled better, but I was satisfied with how everything turned out.
I must admit that, while I was disappointed that America's romantic affairs overshadowed the rebel storyline and any of this author's attempts at world-building, Kiera Cass knows how to write about love (for teen audiences, at least). The last few chapters of this book were absolutely beautiful… Poetic, but not flowery. Doting, but not gushing.
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The stakes are high for America Singer in this sequel to 'The Selection.' With the competition narrowed down to six girls and rebel attacks on the rise, she's running out of time to decide what she wants—and, more importantly, who she wants. Prince Maxon might have swept her off her feet, a motion as unexpected as it was romantic, but can she handle the responsibilities of being his wife? Aspen was her first love, as familiar to her as her childhood home, but do her feelings for him run as deep as they used to? America will have to make up her mind before someone else does it for her.
I was grateful for dialogue while reading this book. When I was left alone with America's thoughts, I had to prepare myself to be confused. These thoughts, many of them incomplete and most of them incoherent, came and went so fast I barely had time to process them. She's always getting mad at people, then forgiving them, then getting mad at them again… I realize she herself is confused, torn between two guys she really cares about, but I felt like the whole book was one long, mushy internal debate.
Another thing that frustrated me was how selfish America became. She holds Maxon at arm's length, demanding he give her time to sort out her feelings, and yet she doesn't think it's fair when he starts getting closer to the other girls. Can she not understand that he's tired of waiting for someone who won't return his feelings? Someone who doesn't appreciate all that he's done for her? Someone who's been sneaking off with one of his guards?
December 4, 2019 by Caitlin·0 Comments
America Singer's life used to be simple. She worked, she took care of her family, and she snuck out at night to spend time with Aspen, her secret boyfriend. Everything changes when she is chosen for the Selection, a competition between thirty-five girls and the chance for one of them to become the next princess of Illéa. America leaves behind her life as a Five—one of the poorer castes, but not the worst off—and enters a world of equal parts luxury and rivalry. She has no intention of marrying Prince Maxon, but the more time she spends at the palace, the more complicated her feelings become for him, Aspen, and the other girls.
I wish I had read this book when I was just a little bit younger—I know I would have gone crazy over it! While I may not be gushing over Aspen and Prince Maxon the way I would have been in seventh grade, I didn't find myself rolling my eyes at the cheesy parts, either. This book may have all the tropes (The Average Girl Who Everyone Falls in Love With? Check. The Mean Girl Who Always Gets Her Way? Check. The Love Triangle? Check.), but there's a certain "feel good" quality to it that makes it easy to ignore these things.
In fact, I think part of what makes 'The Selection' series so appealing is the lack of doom and gloom. I feel like some YA protagonists spend their entire books shifting between varying states of fear, anger, and despair. America, on the other hand, remains optimistic throughout. She knows how to make the most of a bad situation.


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Leighton Clarkson
Leighton Clarkson drops transfer hint as January speculation continues
Clarkson's form hasn't gone unnoticed south of the border, with reports this week claiming that Queens Park Rangers, Reading, and West Bromwich Albion would all like to lure him away from Pittodrie.
Theo Squires
Thomas DurhamTrainee Reporter
Leighton Clarkson has impressed during his time at Pittodrie (Image: SNS Group)
Aberdeen midfielder Leighton Clarkson has dropped a hint about his future amidst transfer speculation, writes the Liverpool Echo.
The 21-year-old Liverpool loanee has impressed for the Dons this season returning five goals and from 19 appearances as Aberdeen prepare for a Scottish League Cup semi-final clash with Rangers at Hampden Park this weekend.
However Clarkson's form hasn't gone unnoticed south of the border, with reports this week claiming that Queens Park Rangers, Reading, and West Bromwich Albion would all like to lure him away from Pittodrie.
READ MORE: Aberdeen's last five League Cup semi finals as Dons look to improve mixed bag of results
Fortunately Aberdeen manager Jim Goodwin believes Liverpool have no plans to bring back the youngster this month and despite the speculation, the midfielder is fully focused on Aberdeen and delighted with how the temporary spell away from Anfield has gone so far.
Clarkson told the ECHO: "I don't think about what's going to happen in the future really. I just want to do my best for Aberdeen now."
"I'm getting that experience and playing men's football. I just want to do as well as I can and see where that takes me.
"I'm really enjoying it. I've come to gain the experience I feel I needed at this club and in the Scottish league. I'm doing that so far, I'm enjoying my football. I want to keep going and try and win a trophy or help us win third place."
The youngster has played in a more advanced role in the Scottish Premiership this season and has scored a number of impressive long range strikes - the most recent coming against Rangers following the World Cup break. His performances have even earned him comparisons with former Dons loanee James Maddison.
Aberdeen skipper Anthony Stewart says Dons have learned 'harsh lessons' from last Rangers encounter ahead of Hampden semi final meeting
And Clarkson is certainly enjoying being unleashed further forward for Aberdeen, setting himself a high target for the end of the season.
"I know I can play as a six, eight or 10. Wherever the gaffer wants me to play, I know I can play it," he said. "Where I'm playing now gives me the licence to get further forward, create chances and score goals.
"It's always good and I've scored quite a few good goals, but I just want more. More goals, more assists. I want to try and get myself to around 20 goal contributions. It's obviously really tough but I always set myself high targets. Hopefully I can do it.
"I enjoy it. I remember my Under-16s season at Liverpool, when I was 15, so playing the year above. I played as a 10 for the first time for them. I think I was getting top goalscorer, level with the striker, at that time so I've always had that instinct to try and score goals and assist goals.
"As I got older, I dropped back to try and control games for Liverpool. I was a single six at Liverpool, so I was always getting the ball and getting like 80 to 100 passes per game.
"Coming up here and playing more advanced, I don't get that. I'm not always on the ball as much but when I am on the ball, I'm in advanced areas where I can create goals for the two strikers and score goals too."
Meanwhile on the comparisons with Maddison, Clarkson said: "I didn't know too much about him being here when I came up here to be fair. I saw his free-kick (vs Rangers) the day before I scored my free-kick, which is a bit ironic.
"He's a world-class player so to get comparisons to him are very nice. I'm obviously not at that level yet, but that's what I'm striving to be. I'll just keep working hard and hopefully I can do as well as him."
Aberdeen v Rangers: TV channel, live stream, referee and more as Dons look to come out on top in huge Hampden showdown
Clarkson made an immediate impact at Aberdeen, coming off the bench early on to score a long-range effort against St Mirren on his debut back in August. Looking back, the switch happened rather quickly, with the midfielder's parents having to drive his things up to Scotland for him after it was made clear he'd be needed right away in the matchday squad.
"Getting off to a good start was really helpful and I've not looked back since," Clarkson said. "I knew of the interest on the Tuesday and then spoke to the gaffer on Thursday.
"He spoke really well about everything, really. The ambition of the club, the games you'll play against the likes of Rangers, Celtic, Hibs, and Hearts. It's a good place to showcase your talent. I also wanted to come up here because of the physicality side of the game. It was a win/win really.
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"I spoke to a few players from the Academy I knew who were already up there. I could name five or six who are all in Scotland now. Everyone of them said it would be good for me.
"The feedback from Jurgen Klopp and his backroom staff, and some first-team players was also all really good. The Blackburn loan didn't go as well as I would have liked it to, so he (Klopp) was just saying, 'go out and do your best again. In time it will all come good,' because he knows the player I am.
"After that on the Friday, when I knew I was going to sign, I was thinking I'll get my car packed and get all my stuff up there. But no, it was, 'we want you on the bench tomorrow.'
"The quickest way to do that is to fly. So I managed to get myself to the airport in time, and my mum and dad drove my car up with all my stuff in. I think I got there at nine o'clock to sign it all, didn't leave until like 11 or 12 at night.
"Go to bed and then the next thing you know, I'm having pre-match at half 10 having never met any of the lads. I was thinking I'd just be on the bench, just to see what the league's like, but ended up coming on quite early.
"I was just thinking, 'do what I can do well, give the fans a glimpse of what I can do'. Then I managed to score which put me in a really good place."
Jonny Hayes shares his memories of Aberdeen 2014 League Cup run and says younger players can handle huge Hampden occasion
Aberdeen icon Stewart McKimmie urges Jim Goodwin to throw off the shackles and take the game to Rangers in Hampden semi final showdown
Graeme Shinnie reckons Aberdeen would have lifted trophies had it not been for Brendan Rodgers and Celtic
Leighton Clarkson targeted for January signing by three EFL sides as Aberdeen face battle to retain loan star
Lewis Ferguson recalls Hampden winner against Rangers and calls on Dons to have 'positive mindset' in Sunday's semi final
Jim Goodwin
Aberdeen FCAberdeen's January transfer window round-up as six new faces arrive whilst Anthony Stewart and Vicente Besuijen depart on loan dealsThe Dons have made big changes to their squad in the window with six new additions, with three players heading out the exit door on loan deals for the remainder of the season
Aberdeen v St Mirren: referee, TV channel and live stream as Barry Robson takes charge
Interim boss Barry Robson will look to steady the ship at Pittodrie on Wednesday night as the Dons gear up for their first game following the sacking of Jim Goodwin.
Dave Cormack requests minute applause for 90-year-old Dons fan
The applause is in honour of Dave's cousin, Uncle Kenny Courage Kenny had been supporting the Reds for over eight decades and attended the 1947 Scottish Cup final against Hibs.
Aberdeen next manager latest as Dave Cormack draws up shortlist with Pittodrie board planning patient search
Dave Cormack
The Dons are searching for fourth manager in two years after Jim Goodwin's 11-month tenure was brought to an end following heavy defeats to Hearts and Hibs and their shock Scottish Cup exit.
Aberdeen FCAberdeen side to face St Mirren as Barry Robson hands out two debutsThe former Dons midfielder has been placed in charge temporarily once again, and will be desperate to get Aberdeen back to winning ways tonight against St Mirren at Pittodrie