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Claire's Invitation Pt. 02
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are in a threesome with Ophelia. Ophelia is a slut, just like me. Oh, my god. I'm losing my mind.
Dr. James is droning on about Hamlet's inner turmoil, but all I can think about is my own. What the hell did I think was going to happen?
"We're adults," I told him. "Nothing will happen," I assured him. And we weren't in bed more than 30 minutes before we were both naked! Naked and playing with each other!! And now I'm getting wet again! Every time I think about his spurting dick and his fingers in my sex, I start creaming my panties. I am such a slut!
"What does Shakespeare intend by telling us of the complicated love affair between Hamlet and Ophelia?" Dr. James asks the room.
Am I in love with Danny? I don't know what being in love feels like. I feel something. I've felt it for a long time. I like him. I miss him when he's gone, and when we're together, I feel something buzzy and delightful. I've never known another boy just like him. He makes me laugh. He makes me think.
Now, he's made me cum. I let him touch me! Oh, god, I've never cum like that. What did he do to me? I've been wrecked since he left. I can't stop thinking about his fingers on my breasts, how they stretched me as they slid into my pussy, the electric shock when he stroked my sex, like he knew exactly what I wanted, like he could read my mind! Am I that much of a slut that he knew what I wanted just by looking at me? I am a slut, a total slut. I ripped off my nightgown without him even asking!
Oh, my god. We were naked together! And it was so much better than I imagined it would be, so much better than reading Lady Chatterly's Lover. And that was pretty hot. I've always wondered what it would be like to be naked with a man, and now it's all I can think about. His skin. His skin touching mine. His huge cock swelling and throbbing in my hand. So hot, and alive. Twitching and growing. And I couldn't let go of him. I couldn't let go. He was practically magnetic.
I don't know how many times he made me cum, but I'm wet again. I can feel my panties getting soaked. I've been wet and twitchy ever since Saturday night, and whenever I think ahead to next weekend… I want to do it all over again. But I can't, can I? What would people think?
I know what Lydia would think. She'd cheer me on. Oh, god, I hope she doesn't know. She was drunk as a skunk, so I don't think she knew, but if she does she'll spread it all over campus. Claire finally got laid! How did I get myself into this spot?
Except that I didn't get laid, not really. I managed to keep my virginity intact, at least technically. I wanted to get laid. I wanted him to do it to me. Somewhere around that third orgasm, I almost jumped on him and shoved that big thing inside my pussy. God, I'm feeling guilty now, just imagine what I'd be feeling if we'd gone all the way?!
I wish I was in his arms again right now. I wish his fingers were dancing around my clit and his tongue was making my nipples ache. Oh, my god. What has happened to me?
My college roommate is fucking her boyfriend in our room night after night after night. Lydia is my best friend, she's always been slutty, and I kind of envy her in a way. She's a free spirit. She does whatever the hell she wants to do. I'm a good girl; well hell, not any more. I used to be a good girl. Anyway, I was dying, listening to them go at it every night, but I felt trapped. Where else could I go? It didn't faze Lydia that I was in bed on the other side of the room. That's Lydia. She once stripped naked and ran around campus with a bunch of guys, just to prove that she was as daring as them. I think she met her current boyfriend that same night, actually. Rumor has it that she did him in the fountain by the library while the rest of the guys cheered.
Anyway, I had this crazy idea that if Danny would stay the night with me and heard what it was like, it would somehow… I don't know, it would make things easier. You know, we'd share something together.
How was that supposed to work? I guess I just felt lonely and wanted someone to sympathize with me.
Danny and I have been friends since way back in junior high school. I like him, a lot, but I've never told him. I'm shy around boys, usually. Always, really, until Saturday night! Oh, my god. I can't believe what I did. Anyway, I convinced Danny to spend the night with me. He went along with it. I didn't really think it through.
They give us single beds in the dorms. We were really close together. That was ok. Danny and I have never made out, but we like kissing, so we kissed each other for awhile, and, I don't know, there was something special about being under the covers with him. Something almost like we were breaking a taboo. It was exciting. And we were kissing, and suddenly it wasn't the same as before. The lights were out. I was wearing my black satin nightgown, he was wearing my pajama bottoms. I started feeling twitchy and hot, achy, especially down there. I started wanting him to touch me. I wanted him to touch me, but I didn't want to want him to touch me, you know? I felt a premonition that things were going to tumble out of control, but it was too late to stop, too late to change my mind.
And then Lydia came in. She and Todd were going at it, and instead of being revulsed, I started hoping Danny would do those same things to me. I wanted him. Hell, I wanted him to fuck my brains out, but we didn't go that far, thank God. I just melted into a puddle of radioactive orgasmic waste right there, right in his arms, and wow, did Danny ever exceed my wildest dreams.
Now what? I guess we can just admit that the whole night was one big, wet, sticky mistake. My God! I made him shoot his sperm all over me! And then, we made out in the shower that morning. Naked again, and I didn't even care! I am such a slut.
It was a mistake. We'll just talk it out, admit that it was a mistake, and go on like before.
On the following Saturday, Danny met me for lunch at Mario's and we split a pepperoni pizza. They make the best pizza in the world there. We didn't say much to each other. Neither of us wanted to be the first to talk about the elephant in the room. So we just ate and smiled at each other like idiots.
The oils from the pepperoni dripped into my hands and down my arm. That's part of the Mario's experience. I realized that Danny was looking at me funny, like he was remembering something. What on earth could he be thinking about? As the warm oil dripped off my elbow, eating pizza suddenly became an erotic experience. I could feel myself blushing as I wiped up the greasy trail with my napkin. He was good. He didn't say anything. But I could tell what was on his mind. It was on my mind, too.
And my pussy was beginning to get that twitchy feeling again.
Afterwards, we went for a long walk. It was a beautiful day out. He held my hand as we wandered among the trees on the campus grounds. There wasn't anyone else I wanted to be with. But we were back to our shy, silent routine, and we needed to talk.
"I've been thinking a lot about last week."
"Me, too," he said.
I waited, but he didn't volunteer anything more.
"Don't get me wrong. I really enjoyed everything we did. But I don't think we should do that again. I just think we should call it a mistake and go back to being…"
"Friends?" he suggested.
"We've always been friends. I just think we shouldn't be, you know, taking our clothes off. I liked it, I really did. You were wonderful. But I think maybe we should slow things down."
"Hmmm." That's all he said. "Hmmm." Sometimes it's hard to guess what he's thinking.
We walked a few minutes more in silence.
"I couldn't get you out of my mind this week, Claire."
That made me smile. I often wonder if he thinks about me when we're apart.
"I've been wanting to do that for a long, long time. I've had dreams about being naked with you, making love to you, but none of my dreams were anywhere near as amazing as you were Saturday night. You're so sexy and it was a dream come true to get naked with you. I loved every minute of it, especially being able to touch you and make you cum. You seemed to like it, too. Did you?"
"Yes, god, yes, I… I… God, yes, I liked it very much. I liked it too much. I haven't been able to concentrate on school this week. I was completely wasted for two days after you left. You're amazing. It's not a question of liking it or not liking it."
We were quiet again.
"You know what it was like, for me?" he asked. "It was like, discovering the perfect gift and watching your face glow as you unwrapped it, except this time, I was doing the unwrapping. Maybe that doesn't make sense. Has anyone, any guy, ever done that for you before?"
"No! God, no. I guess a few times, guys have tried to touch me, you know, when we've been kissing, but I always pushed them away. That's what has me so… shocked. I surprised myself, I suppose. I didn't want to push you away. And you're right. You gave me a very precious gift that no other guy has ever given me."
"So, what's got you upset?"
"I'm not upset, not that way. I'm just… I don't know… I don't know what to think about myself. About us. About all of this. We're not married. I'm a virgin. I don't feel right about what we did. I feel like a slut."
"What? Claire, you're no slut. You're about as un-slutty as a woman could be. You're practically an anti-slut!"
I laughed at that, and then I wondered if it was a compliment.
"What do you mean?"
"I just mean, you're a beautiful woman, you're sexy without throwing it around like Lydia does. You're a living, breathing, passionate woman, and you responded to a very sensual situation like any normal human being would. We're both horny. We're both locked up, afraid of breaking the rules, and there's a part of us that wants to just break those locks and get free. That's what happened. We finally broke free."
"We've never talked like this before."
He was quiet for a moment.
"I read something in the Playboy Advisor once. They said it was easier to talk to a woman once you've cum all over her."
I laughed out loud and hit him in the arm.
"It did not say that, you liar!"
He can always make me laugh.
"No, it didn't say that. But it is kind of weird. I feel like a wall has fallen down. No, not a wall, exactly. But somehow, Saturday made me feel like I can say anything to you now. Like we've shared something that has made it safe for us to be more honest, or really, for me to be more honest with you."
"I get that. I feel the same thing."
We were holding hands as we walked, occasionally bumping hips as we meandered across the expansive grounds, through the gardens, ducking in and out of the golden sunlight as we passed beneath the trees. We'd steal looks at each other, and neither of us could help smiling. Something had changed. Something had deepened. We'd crossed into a new country together, and all around us everything seemed different, the colors more saturated, our emotions closer to the surface.
"I don't think Lydia knows. I think she was too wasted to be aware of us. I'd die if she knew."
I had to think about that.
"What we did, what we shared together, seems too important, too personal, for it to become public. Lydia would cheapen it, I think. It was something I'll never forget, and it felt almost, I don't know, sacred somehow. I think she would make it feel nasty, instead of beautiful."
He just nodded his head.
"Is she in your room now?"
"No, she went back home for the weekend."
"Then, let's go back to your room."
"I don't know. Maybe that's not a good idea." Despite my resolve to be good, I wasn't feeling very confident that I would stick to my guns.
He stopped and pulled me over beside a giant maple tree and kissed me. It's what I had been wanting for a week. I let myself collapse into his arms and our tongues and lips and hands did all the talking for several minutes. Then I realized we were standing beside a well-traveled path. I pushed away and looked around. No one was paying any attention.
"Let's go back to my room."
Oh, man. We're in deep trouble. We had opened Pandora's box, and I wasn't sure we could close the lid again.
We quickly ended up on the bed kissing each other. Sometimes words are just a waste of air. We wanted to get physical again. We wanted flesh on flesh, tongues jousting, saliva, heavy breathing, and plenty of closeness. Danny's a great kisser. Long before our Saturday debauch, his kisses always made me quiver in all the right places. His hand found its way into my blouse and deftly unclasped my bra. Two weeks ago I would have pushed him away. Today, I decided it was a concession I could make. Wanted to make, actually. My nipples were already firm and couldn't wait to be touched. And he wasted no time giving them what they wanted.
Rolling my left nipple between his fingers caused an electric jolt to my pussy. Maybe my nervous system is cross-wired, I wondered? Did I have a nipple to pussy short-circuit somewhere? I felt my eyeballs roll back into my skull. I loved what he was doing and moaned into his wet mouth. Couldn't help myself.
"Oh, Danny, that feels so naughty."
"Your breasts are delightful, Claire. I think I could spend the rest of my life just like this. Why did we wait so long?"
"Ohhhhhhh, Danny."
I kissed his forehead. He kissed my throat, my neck, then he licked and kissed his way up the sensitive skin along the side of my throat all the way to my earlobe. He whispered loving nothings into my ear with scorching breath that lit more fires inside me, then nibbled on my earlobes. That always drives me crazy. The levies had broken and my pussy was at flood stage.
"Oh, Danny. Sweetheart. Maybe… maybe we should stop."
He kissed and nibbled at my neck, not listening.
"Oh, wow. Don't stop just yet."
Then he took my left breast into his mouth through the fabric of my blouse. I almost fainted. Somehow I found the strength to push him away. I sat up, straightened my clothes, and put my hands on his shoulders.
"No. No. We can't."
I was panting like I'd just run a mile.
"I'm sending mixed messages, I know. I want to but I can't. We have to try to go back to where we were before last Saturday."
He looked me in the eyes. He has gorgeous eyes. So expressive. I could see the disappointment.
"I don't think we can go back, can we? Wasn't it good? Didn't it feel right? Didn't you say that you loved it? I know I did."
"Oh, Danny, Danny, yes, Sweetheart, yes. It was amazing. You're amazing. What we did felt so perfect. Lydia likes to say 'it's just sex.' It isn't 'just sex' to me. It wasn't just sex last week. My feelings are all tangled up and I can't sort them out. I feel like things are happening too fast."
He got up and walked across the room. I felt like shit. I wanted him, but I was afraid of wanting him. That was the truth. I was afraid of losing control of myself. I felt pushed along to the edge of a precipice by my cravings and it scared me.
He sat down on Lydia's bed. I thought he was angry, but he smiled.
"Claire. I want you to want this as much as I do."
We were both quiet for awhile. Danny laid back on Lydia's bed and looked vacantly up at the ceiling. I thought about things and thought some more. There had to be something, some middle ground. I made a decision. It made me nervous, and excited.
"Danny."
He looked over at me. I smiled, placed my fingers on my blouse, and unbuttoned the top button. Slowly. Deliberately. Then I paused to be sure that I had his attention. I licked my lips, glanced down, and unbuttoned the second button. I slipped my fingers beneath the fabric and lightly ran my hands over my upper chest and my shoulders. I leaned towards him and locked my eyes on his.
Then I glanced down, took hold of the third button, and lifted it a bit, twirling it slightly between my fingers, tenting the fabric towards him before working that button free. I parted my blouse a bit so that he could see my skin, the deep cleavage between my breasts, and the top edge of my lacy red bra, the one I had picked out just for him this morning.
He started to move, to rise, but I held my hand up to stop him, and he laid back down. But his eyes were fixed on the gap in my blouse, and I rewarded him by popping open the next button and tugging my blouse completely free from the waistband of my slacks. One button remained.
I took my sweet time with it, looking away from him as I fiddled with it. Then looking back, gazing into his eyes, I smiled, took the last button firmly between my thumb and forefinger and ripped it free. The threads snapped and he blinked, smiled wickedly, and his lips parted. I could tell he was breathing more rapidly than he had been.
His right hand went to his crotch as my right hand parted my blouse, slipped up beneath my loose bra, and took hold of my left breast. I closed my eyes as I squeezed the rubbery nipple and gently stroked myself. That nervous system connection once again fired a jolt into my pussy, and I felt myself tingle. My thighs twitched involuntarily and my own breathing quickened.
After a few moments stroking myself, I wriggled out of my blouse, then slipped my bra from my shoulders and, smiling, tossed it over to him. He caught it one-handed and pressed it to his nose, then dropped it and started slowly rubbing his cock through his pants.
I took the hint. I unfastened the button on my pants, loosened the zipper, then slipped my right hand down, inside of my panties, entangling my fingers in my bush, splitting my swollen labia and forcing my fingers deep into the valley of my drenched sex. Oh, baby. Oh, Danny. This is for you, I thought.
I wiggled my hips a bit to make more room, then began stroking myself, rubbing slow circles over my clit with my right hand as I teased my breasts and nipples with my left.
I heard the unmistakable sounds of Danny's belt and zipper, and I looked back in time to see him push his jeans down, way down, over his feed and off the bed and onto the floor. He wasn't wearing underwear, and his beautiful cock stood erect and bounced a bit before he took it in his right hand and began stroking himself.
I imagined my own small hand wrapped around that living dragon, and as he stroked himself I began diddling my clit more rapidly, more urgently, suddenly overtaken by a need that I didn't want to delay.
I pushed my own pants down over my bottom and exposed myself to him. I should have been embarrassed, but instead, I wanted him to watch. Isn't that weird? I felt uninhibited in that moment, and it was a good thing.
His eyes locked on my sex and seemed almost hypnotized by the rapid movements of my fingers as my fingertips flitted back and forth over my pussy, the rhythm building me towards a release that I had been thinking about all day long. In my mind's-eye, it was Danny's fingers diddling my clit, Danny's fingers dipping into my pussy, Danny's fingers strumming a beat on my nipples that synced with some primitive and ancient secret rite coded into my DNA. My whole body was vibrating, I was beginning to jerk involuntarily, I had broken out in a sweat, and I knew what was about to happen. It usually takes me a long time to cum. Not this time.
"Watch" I gasped. "Ohhhhh, watch me, Danny." And he did. I was fully exposed to him, my legs open, my shirt gone, my fingers slapping against my wet lips noisily, when without any warning the orgasm fell on me like a 20-foot breaker and flattened me into the mattress. I pushed up against it, my hips rising into the air as my body went rigid with pleasure. I let out an involuntary yelp that became a series of uncontrollable exhalations as the most exquisite pleasure exploded through my nervous system. My breathing came in gasps, and as I continued to play with my over-sensitive pussy, I was rocked by little aftershocks that caused me to yelp again and again, until my body slowly relaxed into a dreamy, narcotic-like stupor of pure delight.
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namespace Controls{

// public partial sealed class PageControl :1567
// {
struct PageControl_type : ::g::Fuse::Controls::Panel_type
{
    ::g::Fuse::Navigation::INavigation interface8;
    ::g::Fuse::Navigation::IBaseNavigation interface9;
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void PageControl__ctor_4_fn(PageControl* __this);
void PageControl__get_Active_fn(PageControl* __this, ::g::Fuse::Node** __retval);
void PageControl__set_Active_fn(PageControl* __this, ::g::Fuse::Node* value);
void PageControl__get_CanGoBack_fn(PageControl* __this, bool* __retval);
void PageControl__get_CanGoForward_fn(PageControl* __this, bool* __retval);
void PageControl__Fuse_Navigation_INavigation_get_ActivePage_fn(PageControl* __this, ::g::Fuse::Node** __retval);
void PageControl__Fuse_Navigation_INavigation_GetPage_fn(PageControl* __this, int* index, ::g::Fuse::Node** __retval);
void PageControl__Fuse_Navigation_INavigation_get_PageCount_fn(PageControl* __this, int* __retval);
void PageControl__Fuse_Navigation_INavigation_get_PageProgress_fn(PageControl* __this, double* __retval);
void PageControl__GoBack_fn(PageControl* __this);
void PageControl__GoForward_fn(PageControl* __this);
void PageControl__Goto_fn(PageControl* __this, ::g::Fuse::Node* node, int* mode);
void PageControl__add_HistoryChanged_fn(PageControl* __this, uDelegate* value);
void PageControl__remove_HistoryChanged_fn(PageControl* __this, uDelegate* value);
void PageControl__InitializeUX_fn(PageControl* __this);
void PageControl__add_Navigated_fn(PageControl* __this, uDelegate* value);
void PageControl__remove_Navigated_fn(PageControl* __this, uDelegate* value);
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void PageControl__New2_fn(PageControl** __retval);
void PageControl__add_PageCountChanged_fn(PageControl* __this, uDelegate* value);
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void PageControl__add_PageProgressChanged_fn(PageControl* __this, uDelegate* value);
void PageControl__remove_PageProgressChanged_fn(PageControl* __this, uDelegate* value);
void PageControl__Toggle_fn(PageControl* __this, ::g::Fuse::Node* node);

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    bool CanGoForward();
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    void remove_HistoryChanged(uDelegate* value);
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    void add_Navigated(uDelegate* value);
    void remove_Navigated(uDelegate* value);
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    void add_PageCountChanged(uDelegate* value);
    void remove_PageCountChanged(uDelegate* value);
    void add_PageProgressChanged(uDelegate* value);
    void remove_PageProgressChanged(uDelegate* value);
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Q: Externally triggering FullCalendar's 'dayClick' method? I'm using Arshaw's FullCalendar and I'm looking to simulate a user clicking on a cell once the page has loaded. I'm trying to do this so I could potentially go to a URL such as /Calendar/AddEvent and the calendar will automatically open a dialog with my add event form in.
Take the following set up: (Fiddle here)
HTML

jQuery
$('#calendar').fullCalendar({
        firstDay: 1,
        selectable: true,
        dayClick: function (start, allDay, jsEvent, view) {
                    alert('You clicked me!');
        }
    });

By default, the cell for today has the class .fc-today which I've tried to take advantage of by doing the following:
$('.fc-today').trigger('click');

This doesn't seem to work though. Is there anyway I could do something like
$('#calendar').fullCalendar('dayClick', date)

Any help is appreciated.

A: I ran into this issue in my usecase as well, and this is what I found works for me, after digging around in the fullcalendar source code. You need to manually create a mousedown and mouseup event (technically the mouseup is optional, but you can use it to reset the 'clicked' state of the td), which contains the coordinates of the X and Y position of the element you want to "click". Also important is the which parameter, which needs to be set to 1 so that it passes the isPrimaryMouseButton check.
With this in mind, the code would look like this (note I changed the $('#click') to use a mousedown event so that it only runs once):
$('#click').on('mousedown', function () {
    var today = $('td.fc-today');
    var down = new $.Event("mousedown");
    var up = new $.Event("mouseup");
    down.which = up.which = 1;
    down.pageX = up.pageX = today.offset().left;
    down.pageY = up.pageY = today.offset().top;
    today.trigger(down);
    today.trigger(up); //this is optional if you just want the dayClick event, but running this allows you to reset the 'clicked' state of the
});

Here is a working fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/vyxte25r/

A: You can use jquery trigger event on div inside td with fc-today class:
 $('td.fc-today div').trigger('click');

A: Modifying Kevin's answer a bit worked for me. I needed to make the dayClick event accessible by keyboard. Adding the event listener to each cell using the dayRender method allows us to easily handle the dayClick event for each day. Here's how I accomplished it:
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David Baron Live @ Pianos, Friday January 22
On Friday, January 22, singer-songwriter David Baron will perform a full-band show at Pianos in Manhattan's lower east side. The concert begins at 7:30pm, and will feature performances of songs from Baron's latest full-length album of all original material, Heartbeat.
Tickets are $10 for ages 21 and over, and are available at the door and online at the link below. For more information, visit http://www.pianosnyc.com/.
David Baron Live @ Pianos
Full band show!
7:30PM, $10, 21+
158 Ludlow St.
For tickets, click here: http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?eventId=6366085&pl=pianosnyc&dispatch=loadSelectionData.
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about 2 years agoCan't wait for tonight! Full-band show at 8:30 at @MollyMalonesLA. See you there! https://t.co/MA5Gr0vKnx
about 2 years agoPsyched to announce my 1st full-band show of 2017 is @MollyMalonesLA next Saturday 3/18! 8:30, $10, 21+. Pumped to… https://t.co/cyeogOmQGZ
about 3 years agoTomorrow's the big night! Hope you can make it to my full-band show @MollyMalonesLA. 8:30, $10, 21+. See you there!
about 3 years agoThrilled my 1st full-band show since moving back to LA is @MollyMalonesLA on Friday 9/9! 8:30, $10, 21+. Can't wait! https://t.co/VxklbhnTni
about 3 years agoThanks to everyone who came out to @PianosNYC! Rocked out so hard my wedding ring flew off while playing piano! #rocknrolllessonlearned
All rights reserved. © 2014 David Baron.


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Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week's startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.
YC had its biggest news in years this week: Garry Tan will be the new president and CEO of the organization, starting January 2023. Tan co-founded and helped scale Initialized Capital to a venture firm that now manages over $3.2 billion in assets. All the while, he's always had roots in YC, both as a former partner at the organization.
One detail that didn't make my story this week is how Tan is bringing a content creator vibe back to @ycombinator's leadership ranks. He's succeeding Geoff Ralston, who wasn't too public about his work at the accelerator. Tan, however, has amassed over 220,000 YouTube subscribers for his tech videos. Topics on Tan's youtube channel range from how to lead like a champion to how dev teams can build like Google, and, yes, how to apply to YC in 2022. It's reminiscent of YC co-founder Paul Graham's essays, many of which inspired entrepreneurs to jump into startups to begin with.
YC's choice to put a creator at the helm is in line with their product focus over the past year. In June, the accelerator announced Launch YC, a platform where people can sort accelerator startups by industry, batch and launch date to discover new products. Launch YC invites users to vote for newly launched startups "to help them climb up the leaderboard, try out product demos and learn about the founding team."
As standing out inside of YC has become more difficult, and given how important distribution is for early-stage startups, YC offering a way for startups to make a bit more noise might make the implied equity cost of its program more attractive. Tan continues that same focus, both as a well-known personality within tech and a creator who has spent years building up a brand focused on early-stage startups.
Creator news aside, the Y Combinator executive shuffle brings up another question: competition. Tan didn't say how his new role at Y Combinator and his future role at Initialized, which is venture adviser, will overlap when asked about competitive or complementary dynamics. He offered Strictly VC a similar sentiment:
When I left YC, I was always careful to never ask YC partners "Who was hot?" Initialized did their own work. That doesn't change with me on the inside. Initialized was built to be the ideal firm founders would choose because of the ethos, approach to founders (soft advisership, not your boss) and what makes it extra unique is the large emphasis on team and services from that team. Few firms focused on pre-product-market fit seed do this. The very best ones do, and Initialized is one of them … The community has an investor database that helps them choose, and Initialized is top ranked there and will be as long as it continues to do no harm and help. That doesn't change either.
These are just the first questions around creators and competition that we have for Y Combinator's future. Good thing Demo Day, happening next week, is going to continue the conversation.
For my full interview with Tan, check out my TechCrunch story: "Garry Tan's return is a full circle moment for Y Combinator." And, to thank you for being a Startups Weekly subscriber, here's a little TC+ discount for you: Enter "STARTUPS" at check-out for 15% off of your subscription.
In the rest of this newsletter, we'll get into one app's surprising closure, the latest and greatest on party rounds and a follow up on a data-driven fund. As always, you can support me by forwarding this newsletter to a friend or following me on Twitter. Appreciate your support, as always!
The ending of Zenly
Earlier this week, Snap laid off 20% of its global staff in an attempt to restructure its business. The cut comes after CEO Evan Spiegel's May memo, in which he wrote that the company would miss revenue goals in the second quarter.
And layoffs aren't the end of the story. Snap is slowing the production of Snap-funded originals, minis and games, hardware, the Pixy Drone, as well as standalone apps that include Voisey and Zenly. Beyond the fact that Snap says it is still developing its augmented reality glasses, called Spectacles, the surprising tidbit in that refocus is the shutdown of Zenly, a hugely popular app that was acquired five years ago.
It's common for companies to shutter apps, especially acquisitions, years into the works during restructuring efforts. Plus, Zenly doesn't generate a ton of direct revenue and still works as a standalone app. Still, as my colleagues Paul Sawers and Romain Dillet point out, there was quite a bit of shock when Snap snuck in the shutdown.
Here's why it's important: Sawers and Dillet point out that "Zenly was showing no signs of stagnating, and if anything, it looked like it had the potential to be one of Snap's prized possessions if it could only figure out how to turn it into a money-making machine." As you'll see in their story, it turns out that the shutdown may be Snap playing defense, not just offense.
I still have so many (maybe simple!) q's, but here are two:
why was it so hard for snap to just combine zenly & snap map? best of both worlds?
is there no competitive tensions between now ousted zenly and snap's future snap map plans?
— natasha (@nmasc_) September 1, 2022
Facebook is shutting down its Nextdoor clone next month, following tests in the US and Canada
Clearco cuts international staff as it retracts presence, announces new partner
Following its Series A, Poparazzi's team is readying a new social app that goes beyond photos
Six conversations that bring nuance to tech's layoff wave
The Station: Porsche IPO demand accelerates and more micromobility layoffs
Image Credits: Zenly
Let's talk about party rounds
I dug into a debate as old as time this week on Equity Wednesday and TechCrunch+: party rounds! The positives are obvious: With more investors on their cap table, startups have more avenues for distribution, introductions and advice throughout their lifecycle.
The cons are more complicated. Is the party-round investment as helpful as capital from fewer, more commitment sources? Are there too many cooks in the kitchen? Is it a negative signal that this startup had to raise from dozens of people instead of one high-conviction partner?
In my story, I interviewed three people from all different seats at the venture table, from the engineer leading products to unbundle these processes, to the party round startup that raised a party round, to an investor whose job it is to collaborate with (and sometimes compete with) the flurry of angels interested in these rounds.
Here's what's important: I love when debates actually make a difference, and in this case, they do. It seems like the definition of a party round has changed over the years, partially in response to many of the dynamics that appear when there's no specific lead investor in a financing round.
Party rounds are either the dinner party of your dreams or the one where no one shows up
Coming out of COVID, investors lose their taste for board meetings
Cantos launches its third fund, ploughing $50M into near-frontier startups
Fintech startup Alloy leans on fraud prevention to land new $1.55B valuation
If you missed last week's newsletter, read it here: "When the party has confetti but no allergen-friendly appetizers."
Image Credits: dehooks
I'm experimenting with a new section in Startups Weekly, where each week we follow up with an old story or trend to see what's changed since our first look. This week, I checked in with Abe Othman, the brains behind data science at AngelList Venture — including its $25 million Quant Fund. In December 2021, I broke the news of the startup's fresh new fund, which is an investment vehicle that hopes to plant $250,000 checks into over 100 companies.
The big twist of the fund is its approach in using quantitative factors to decide which startups to invest in. I then reported that his team tracks the velocity of hiring demand for a startup, looking at how many job applications a single company gets within a specific period of time. The signal strips out factors like investor bias, the founder's networks and even buzzy valuations.
Here's what's new: The fund has deployed about $6 million, about a third of the fund, across 530 startups since December, with over 35 larger checks into high-signal startups. Othman says that the fund's larger checks have been going toward women and minority founders at a higher percentage of total portfolio composition than venture at large. Othman estimates that their portfolio is nearly 20% women.
"As you know, we intentionally practice venture investing in a distinct way … our largest portfolio allocations are toward founders who write back to a cold outreach email, which requires quite a bit of faith on their part," he added. It lines up with what he said last year, when he described the firm's cut-and-dry cold email approach as "less adversarial" than other funds out there.
Everything you need to know to make a great startup pitch deck
3 keys that unlock data-driven fundraising
Pitch Deck Teardown: Front's $65M Series D deck
Some institutional LPs have started pulling back from VC, but most won't
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THE TECHCRUNCH DISRUPT 2022 AGENDA IS OUT
Wait for it. See it? Yep, I'm excited too. And while we're on the topic of housekeeping, some more notes:
Listen to TechCrunch's podcasts, including our crypto-focused show that goes by Chain Reaction, and founder-focused show that goes by Found. The TechCrunch Podcast also continues to entertain the heck out of me, so pay attention to all the good shows that they're putting out.
Remember that TechCrunch Live is on a brand new platform, and we've made it easier to apply for pitch practice. Investors (and my inbox) can attest to the importance of brevity, savviness and clarity in pitches so it's great to see. Startups can now apply any day, any time for Pitch Practice by completing this form.
TechCrunch Live is coming to Minneapolis. On September 7, come hang with the TechCrunch crew as we interview the best and brightest in the city. Minneapolis is among the top cities in the Midwest to start a company — and soon you'll learn why!
Go mining for opportunity at TC Sessions: Crypto, this November in Miami. Yep, you heard it right, we're making it to Miami.
Landa can make you a landlord with just $5
What we expect from Apple's iPhone 14 event
Reviver is building a company one license plate at a time
Randomly selected quotes from Zuck's very, very long interview
Shuffles, Pinterest's invite-only collage-making app, is blowing up on TikTok — here's how to get in
Seen on TechCrunch+
A Gen Z VC speaks up: Why Gen Z VCs are trash
The majority of early-stage VC deals fall apart in due diligence
Investors detail their red (and green) flags for startups seeking venture dollars
Is there no bottom to the SPAC mess?
Stop sensationalizing the 'collapse' of VC: Look at the data
And just like that, another week comes to an end. This was a weird one. I met one of the most famous actors in the world, went viral on Twitter and ate amazing pasta at Che Fico. This newsletter feels more and more like a weekly diary entry on the wacky world that we're all in, half-baked stream of consciousness and all. Thanks for reading along, and enjoy the long weekend.


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Top>Opinion>The Significance of Elections - Balancing Representativeness, Cost and Governability
Hiroko Kudo [profile]
The Significance of Elections - Balancing Representativeness, Cost and Governability
Hiroko Kudo
Professor, Faculty of Law, Chuo University
Areas of Specialization: Political Science, Public Policy, Public Management
Reconsidering the meaning of elections
This article is being published the day after the governor election voting of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. The winner will have already been revealed by the time this is published. However, the author does not know yet who has won as the author is writing this article in the middle of the electoral campaign. Therefore, rather than give an election forecast or an analysis of the manifestos of the candidates, here the author would like to consider the fundamental meaning of elections.
The voters of Tokyo have chosen their governor three times in the last three years. In the election of April 10, 2011 at the end of his previous term, the incumbent governor Shintaro Ishihara was elected for his fourth term, but he resigned just after 18 months. The subsequent election held on December 16, 2012, the same day as the election for the House of Representatives, was a landslide victory for the then vice governor Naoki Inose, widely regarded as Mr. Ishihara's successor. Governor Inose, however, was forced to resign due to a scandal related to funding from the Tokushukai hospital group, which is the reason of this latest election. An election to select a representative is without a doubt an important opportunity to elicit public opinion, and voting is obviously the right and duty of citizens. But as Tokyo governors elected in this very election resign and force voters for successive voting, it is only natural to question the meaning of elections.
In Osaka city, on the other hand, Mayor Toru Hashimoto has caused wide repercussions by announcing his intention to resign and call a fresh election. First elected as Mayor in November 2011, he says the purpose of the new election is to consult the will of voters regarding the stalled concept of establishing an Osaka Metropolitan Government. Since the political composition of the Osaka City Council will not change, it is natural to start wondering what significance this election will have. Mr. Hashimoto has also hinted that if he is unable to make a breakthrough even if he wins this fresh election, he may hold another election within a year. But elections should not be a means of advancing specific issues in the first place.
The operation cost of elections- expensive or cheap?
There has been a lot of attention on many features that are considered as the characteristics of this latest Tokyo governor's election, such as the fact that the candidates include heavyweight veterans of national politics and even a former prime minister, and that there are many issues normally not brought up in local elections. Of particular note is the attention focused on the "operational cost of elections" borne by the taxpayers. For the author, as the electoral system is one of her research field, it is rather natural to consider various election-related costs, but this time it seems that this is the very first time that the mass media and social media have intensively argued about the "operational cost of elections." Is this an indication of the voters' fatigue towards election, or can it be a strategy of some media, which question why "inefficiency of politics" is not examined at all, while only the "inefficiency of government" is examined?
The figure of five billion yen has been thrown around online and elsewhere, and this is based on the supplementary budget of 4.99 billion yen formulated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government for its governor's election. The number of people eligible to vote in this election is 10.81 million, so the operational cost per voter is 454 yen. Whether this would be considered expensive or cheap depends on how election costs are perceived. It is interesting that the mass media, which had loudly praised the importance of democracy at all previous elections, has started to point out that the operational cost of elections which would normally be incurred once every four years, has incurred three times in the last three years once every three years, although one election was conducted less expensively because it was held on the same day as that of the House of Representatives.
The barometer of democracy
The debate over "cost of election" has until now been mainly about how much money candidates spend on electoral campaigns. It has been argued that a system which allows candidates to fight elections with less expenses is more desirable, and discussions have been made on elections that cost (or do not cost) money. This is because the democratic system should allow anyone eligible and not just those with abundant funds to run as a candidate in an election. Thus, the key issue has been about how to publicly run elections, in discussing government subsidies for political parties.
In this sense, "cost of election" is closely connected to the electoral system. In Japan, when her multiple-seat constituency system was revised to a mixed voting system that combined a Majoritarian System and Proportional Representation System, it was designed to realize less costly elections. Indeed, this new mixed voting system under which political parties compete against each other tends to make the election costs for individual candidates lower than the multiple-seat constituency system, under which candidates fought one other. However, the operational cost of elections rises due to the increase in the number of constituencies and voters being able to cast two votes.
There are various electoral systems around the world. Some, such as the Second Ballot Majority-Runoff System, can significantly reduce wasted votes (which increase in a Majoritarian System) but both the operational costs and campaigning costs of such elections are much more expensive. Under a Proportional Representation System, open party list is used instead of closed party list, thus voters express their preference votes and distribution of seats are proportional to the voting outcome, which seems more democratic, although the ballot costs, vote counting costs, and costs for candidates are all more expensive. This might be called the cost of democracy, but the cost-effectiveness cannot be ignored. An electoral system is designed to find a balance between how far the responsiveness could be realized and how much time and money should be spent.
Representativeness or governability?
It is also important to reach a balance between popular will and governance, not only between popular will and cost. Although Proportional Representation System secures the inclusion of minority voices, it does tend to lead to a Multi-party System and thus unstable governance. The Majoritarian System has issues of responsiveness because of wasted votes, but it can elect "strong candidates" while electing a small number of "strong parties" to produce stable governance. When selecting an electoral system, therefore, the balance between representativeness and governability is also pursued.
Italy's Proportional Representative System with majority bonus, which prioritizes governability due to her historical background, was declared unconstitutional by the country's Constitutional Court in December 2013 for not being responsive enough to public will. In the revision of the electoral system, the debate has concentrated on what percentage the bonus should be in order to secure representativeness while realizing governability. Seeking just to strengthen governability, as in the past, seems difficult now. All eyes are fixed on plans for a new electoral system and where the balance between representativeness and governability would be found. It may be time to reconsider the balance within the Japanese electoral system, in which representativeness has tended to be placed ahead of governability.
The author was born in Tokyo. She graduated from the School of Political Science and Economics, Major in Political Science, Waseda University in 1990 before completing the Political Science master degree at the Graduate School of Political Science of the same University in 1992. From 1992 to 1993 she attended the Department of Regional Sciences, Milan Polytechnic as an Italian government scholarship student. She received a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Venice in 1998. From 1995 she served as Assistant Professor on the Faculty of Modern Social Sciences, Aichi Shukutoku University, and from 1998 as Assistant Professor and from 2003 as Associate Professor at the School of Education, Waseda University. From 2001 to 2002 she served as guest researcher at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet Office of the government of Japan. She took up her current position in 2005. She has served as visiting professor at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Bocconi University, the University of Ljubljana, the University of Cagliari and the University of Catania.
She has been involved in performance measurement, policy evaluation and evaluation of independent administrative institutions at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, among others, and in human resource management at the Ministry of Defense and the National Personnel Authority. She has involved in the administrative and managerial reform of numerous local governments. Her works include Municipi d'Oriente (Donzelli, 2008), co-written with Giampaolo Ladu and Lucio Pegoraro.


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Nuts & Bolts Constitutional Provisions
The British North America Act (renamed Constitution Act) 1867 states:
(9) The Executive Government and Authority of and over Canada is hereby declared to continue and be vested in the Queen.
(15) The Commander-in-Chief of the Land and Naval Militia, and of all Naval and Military Forces, of and in Canada, is hereby declared to continue to be vested in the Queen.
(17) There shall be One Parliament for Canada, consisting of the Queen, an Upper House styled the Senate, and the House of Commons.
(Fifth Schedule) OATH OF ALLEGIANCE: I, A.B. do swear, That I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria. Note — The Name of the King or Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the Time being is to be substituted from Time to Time, with Proper Terms of Reference thereto.
Click here to view the 1867 British North America Act
The Constitution Act of 1982 states:
(41) An amendment to the Constitution of Canada in relation to the following matters may be made by proclamation issued by the Governor General under the Great Seal of Canada only when authorized by resolutions of the Senate and House of Commons and of the legislative assembly of each province:
(a) the office of the Queen, the Governor General and the Lieutenant Governor of a province;
(b) the right of a province to a number of members in the House of Commons not less than the number of Senators by which the province is entitled to be represented at the time this Part comes into force;
(c) subject to section 43, the use of the English or the French language;
(d) the composition of the Supreme Court of Canada; and
(e) an amendment to this Part.
Click here to view the 1982 Constitution Act
Other important documents:
Letters Patent Constituting the Office of the Governor General
Press Release from the Privy Council Announcing the 2005 Changes to the Letters of Credence
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import Data.Maybe

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squotes = between (char '\'') (char '\'')

stringLit :: Parser Expression
stringLit = fmap String $
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numberLit :: Parser Expression
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boolean :: Parser Expression
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nil :: Parser Expression
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variable :: Parser Expression
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array :: Parser Expression
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expression :: Parser Expression
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filteredExpression :: Parser Expression
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New, Closer-to-Normal Biden Pandemic Plan for the Nation
President Joe Biden speaks at an event to celebrate Black History Month in the East Room of the White House, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
WASHINGTON — It's time for America to stop letting the coronavirus "dictate how we live," President Joe Biden's White House declared Wednesday, outlining a strategy to allow people to return to many normal activities safely after two years of pandemic disruptions.
One highlight is a new "test to treat" plan to provide free antiviral pills at pharmacies to people who test positive for the virus.
The 90-page National COVID-19 Preparedness Plan spells out initiatives and investments to continue to drive down serious illness and deaths from the virus, while preparing for potential new variants and providing employers and schools the resources to remain open.
"We know how to keep our businesses and our schools open with the tools that we have at our disposal," said White House COVID-19 coordinator Jeff Zients.
It follows Biden's Tuesday night State of the Union speech, in which he pointed to progress against the pandemic since last year, with a dramatic reduction in cases, readily available vaccines and tests, and new therapeutics soon becoming more accessible.
"This plan lays out the roadmap to help us fight COVID-19 in the future as we move America from crisis to a time when COVID-19 does not disrupt our daily lives and is something we prevent, protect against, and treat," the White House said. "We are not going to just 'live with COVID.' Because of our work, we are no longer going to let COVID-19 dictate how we live."
That tracked Biden's speech statement, "Tonight, I can say we are moving forward safely, back to more normal routines. It's time for Americans to get back to work and fill our great downtowns again."
COVID-19 cases have fallen to their lowest level since last summer in recent weeks, after a winter spike from the highly transmissible omicron variant. Deaths, though, which lag cases by weeks, are still elevated, with an average of nearly 1,700 people dying in the U.S. each day. Officials emphasize that most instances of serious illnesses and death in the U.S. occur among those who are unvaccinated or who have not received a booster dose of vaccine.
The White House's strategy comes days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention loosened its guidance for when when face masks should be work in public indoor settings, that placed more emphasis on local capacity to treat serious disease than overall case counts. Now more than 70% of the country can safely remove masks indoors, the CDC says, and the percentage is expected to grow as cases continue to decline.
While most states and localities moved to relax their mask requirements even before the CDC change, many have kept mandates in place for schools, and the federal government continues to require face masks on public transportation, including airplanes. The federal mandate is set to expire on March 18, but health officials did not provide any indication of whether it would be extended.
Meanwhile, businesses across the country are struggling to navigate employees' lingering concerns about COVID-19 and desire for the flexibility of working from home. Many companies' would like to get workers back into offices.
A key component of the administration's plan to convince American that it is safe to resume normal activities is the increasing availability of an antiviral pill from Pfizer that has been shown to reduce the risk of hospitalization from COVID-19 by 90%. By the end of the month, the administration says, 1 million pills will be available, with double that ready for use in April.
A White House official said the "test-to-treat" plan will initially roll out in hundreds of pharmacies across the country, including CVS, Walgreens, and Kroger locations, and would soon expand beyond that. Those who test positive at the sites will be able to obtain the antiviral pills for quick use, dramatically reducing the risk of bad outcomes.
The administration said it stands ready to rapidly administer millions of vaccine doses to children under 5 once the vaccines are approved by federal regulators. While there had been hope for the first shots to be authorized last month, Pfizer is now waiting on the results of a study including a third dose of the vaccine for that age group, and that will likely delay approval until April.
As part of the new strategy, the administration is calling on Congress to reinstitute tax credits for businesses that provide paid sick leave for employees who are sick with COVID-19. The White House is also asking Congress for additional funding to invest in new COVID-19 drugs, including research into the development of pan-coronavirus vaccines that would prevent against multiple strains and even several different types of viruses.
Meanwhile, federal officials emphasized they have greatly improved the public health system's capacity to identify and track any potential new variants, with new investments in surveillance testing and genomic sequencing. Zients said the administration believes that if needed, it can authorize, produce and deliver new vaccines and treatments "in just 100 days rather than in many months or years."
Biden, in his remarks Tuesday night, said that in addition to starting the new antiviral initiative, his administration would allow people in the U.S. to order another round of free tests from the government. He said that starting next week, the administration would make available four more free tests to U.S. households through COVIDTests.gov, which has sent more than 270 million to nearly 70 million households since it launched in mid-January.
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has charged three men in an alleged plot that originated in Iran to kill an Iranian American author and activist who has spoken out against human rights abuses there, officials said Friday.


Get rid of those unsightly orange and red side markers for a much cleaner looking smoked reflector!
These side markers are a direct replacement for the oem markers on the side of all Lotus Evora's.
These are not illuminated, they are just a reflector. You are responsible to know if they are legal to run in your state/region.
Reverse these steps for install of new smoked side markers! --Reusing oem 10mm speed nuts.


Draw a semicircle with base AE and center at O. Let the tangent line to the semicircle at D meet the perpendiculars drawn from A and E at B and F. Let G be the point of intersection of BE and AF. Let C be the projection of D onto AE. Then there are three results: (1) GC = GD, (2) CD is equal to the harmonic mean of AB and EF: and (3) AO and OE equal the geometric mean of AB and EF: .
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New research paves the way for safer leukaemia treatments
Published this week in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the research is a joint effort of Children's Cancer Institute (Australia), VIB-KU Leuven (Belgium) and UK Dementia...
An international team of researchers has discovered a new and much safer way to treat a type of leukaemia that mainly affects children: T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL).
Minderoo Foundation's $5 million donation to Zero Childhood Cancer will help kids like Jack beat brain cancer
Today Minderoo Foundation's Eliminate Cancer initiative announced a $5 million partnership with Zero to help scale the program in Australia, drive further research into personalised medicine in childhood cancer and help established standardised international protocols.
Childhood cancer scientist rewarded for research excellence
Children's Cancer Institute researcher Professor Maria Kavallaris AM – who in January this year was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for her significant service to medicine and to medical research – today received further recognition for her work, winning the prestigious Lemberg Medal.
Leading children's cancer scientist awarded for outstanding research
Professor Murray Norris AM, Deputy Director of Children's Cancer Institute and Director of the Centre for Childhood Cancer Research at the University of New South Wales, has won the inaugural Sally Crossing AM Award for an Outstanding Outcome in Cancer Research.
World-Class Comprehensive Children's Cancer Centre Announced
State and Commonwealth Health Ministers, Brad Hazzard and Greg Hunt, announce that a new, world-class Comprehensive Children's Cancer Centre will be built on the Randwick Hospital Campus, as a new home for Children's Cancer Institute, and also for an expanded Kid's Cancer Centre at Sydney Children's Hospital.
Australian Scientists Discover a Potential Way to Treat and Prevent Cancer in Children with Neuroblastoma
In new research published this week, a team jointly led by Professors Michelle Haber and Murray Norris has revealed that the polyamine pathway is entirely regulated by the MYCN oncogene
Maria Kavallaris receives Order of Australia
Children's Cancer Institute is thrilled to announce that Professor Maria Kavallaris – a leading childhood cancer researcher and a pioneer of nanomedicine in Australia – is to be appointed a Member of the Order of Australia. She will be included in the 2019 Australia Day Honours List for her significant service to medicine, and to medical research, in the field of childhood and adult cancers.
For children with the most common childhood cancer, resistance to treatment has remained an enigma – until now
Research published last week in the prestigious journal, Cancer Cell, by scientists at Children's Cancer Institute in Sydney, has discovered why one of the most successful classes of drugs used to treat acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), glucocorticoids, fails to work in 15% of children with the disease.
How Targeting Copper Levels in Tumours Could Hold Key to One of the Deadliest Childhood Cancers
Tumour cells are known to have high levels of copper. Now researchers at Children's Cancer Institute in Sydney have found that an antioxidant found in green tea can kill tumour cells by targeting only those with high levels of the metal without harming the healthy cells around them.
Media Release: 'Zero Childhood Cancer' Clinical Trial Delivers Promising Results Within Its First 11 Months
The Zero Childhood Cancer program has today released initial results of its national clinical trial, revealing promising outcomes within its first 11 months.
Children's Cancer Institute's Michelle Haber recognised with a Eureka Nomination
Cancer is diagnosed in more than 950 children and adolescents in Australia every year. Professor Michelle Haber AM, of Children's Cancer Institute and UNSW, was today announced as a finalist for the 2018 Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Leadership in Innovation and Science, sponsored by CSIRO, for her pivotal work in developing the Zero Childhood Cancer program. The program was designed specifically to ensure that those children diagnosed with aggressive cancer have the best possible chance of surviving and doing so with a high quality of life.
Media Release: Prime Minister announces $5 million funding boost for brain cancer personalised trials
The Zero Childhood Cancer personalised medicine program is the largest single initiative ever undertaken for children with cancer in Australia
Curing Childhood Cancer – a Global Approach to Improve Cancer Treatment
This week in the United States, a database of genetic information will be made publicly available of more than 270 patient-derived cancer models, encompassing 25 different childhood cancers. Assisted by funding from the Australian Federal Government Department of Health, Children's Cancer Institute contributed 90 leukaemia models to this global effort.
NANO-STARS – TARGETING A DEADLY CHILDHOOD BRAIN CANCER
At the International Nanomedicine Conference in Sydney (25-27 June), Helen Forgham, from Children's Cancer Institute, is presenting a new technology for targeting the childhood brain cancer medulloblastoma. She's using star-shaped nanoparticles to deliver gene silencing drugs to tumour cells.
New hope for children's brain cancer
There is a disease that kills children aged between 5 and 10 years old, within one year of diagnosis. New research to be presented at an international conference this week may be about to change that.


While having a car to drive around town might prove to be convenient, owning one… well, maybe not so much. For those of you who feel that way, we found you some self-drive car rental options in the city that will have your back.
With a fleet of hatchbacks, sedans, SUVs and more, MyChoize operates all over the country and has a pretty straightforward booking process—search for your preferred car, upload your ID proof, and get the car delivered to you. They offer unlimited kilometres, and delivery and pick-up from anywhere.
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We're sure you've heard of Zoomcar by now. For the uninitiated, Zoomcar lets you rent cars by the hour, day, week, or month. They've got you covered with insurance, and have a fleet ranging from electric hatchbacks to Audi SUVs. They'll drop the car off at your doorstep too!
From Nano to Q3, VolerCars has car options fit for any group size and level of comfort you're looking for. They've got a Flexi Pay option, where you can pay the security deposit at a later time (for when the cash crunch hits).
They've got hourly rentals, outstation options, home-to-work rides, and a 'switch' service where you can rent a car on a monthly basis (who says you have to have the same ride every month anyway, right?). They've got both with and without fuel options, and deliver the car anywhere you want.


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Night's Honor (Elder Races #7) by Thea Harrison
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Synopsis: In USA Today bestselling author Thea Harrison's latest Novel of the Elder Races, a woman finds herself in need of protection—and seduced by honor…
On the run from her former employer, Tess knows that she's vulnerable on her own amongst the Elder Races. That's why she decides to audition to become the human attendant of a powerful Vampyre of the Nightkind demesne. But while her position affords her the safety she seeks, her protector turns out to be more than she bargained for.
The right-hand man of the Nightkind King, Xavier del Torro is both terrifying and alluring. While his true nature frightens Tess, she can't ignore the appeal of his innate sense of integrity and self-restraint. Thrown into Xavier's world, Tess must quickly learn to navigate the dangers—both to her life and to her heart. But the biggest threat comes from her own past….
Review: I enjoyed this one a lot. Another series that I have fallen behind in and am glad to revisit the Elder Races world. Xavier and Tess are beautiful together. Their story isn't rushed, they come together slowly and naturally, and their love and passion are beautiful. I love how Xavier won't let her run away, the scene in the ballroom where they confess secrets was emotional, his attempts to teach her to waltz were funny, and how she saves herself from Malphas was priceless! When they came together it was beautiful and intimate. He comes right out and tells her he wants her in his life for more than one night. Loved that! It was refreshing to have a male lead lay everything out there so there was no doubt where they were headed long term. I don't want to go too much more into saying everything I loved about this story but it is definitely one of my favorites in the series.
I don't usually include favorite quotes anymore with my reviews. I love them but they became too time-consuming when I took on high school yearbook. So I quit doing that as part of my reviews, but there was a small one in this one that I couldn't resist including. It was beautiful.
More gunfire sounded. Webs of fractures starred the front and back windshields, but they held for now.
"I need guns," Tess snapped. "Lots and lots of guns."
Folded into the small space between the front seat and the dashboard, she looked terrified and sounded furious. In spite of the urgency of their situation, Xavier almost smiled. He bent over her, tilted up her face and whispered, " Tell me it's okay to fall in love with you."
She gave him a wide-eyed, cranky stare. Her lips were bloodless. "You'd better. I'm not falling in love all by myself."
He gave her a swift, hard kiss.
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Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking The Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases we are eagerly anticipating.
This week I'm waiting on… November 29, 2016
Good Vampires Go To Heaven (A Deadly Angels Book #8) by Sandra Hill
Synopsis: New York Times bestselling author SANDRA HILL continues her sexy deadly angels series with a good demon who might finally get his vangel wings…
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Alexandra Ivy, Black Dagger Legacy, Christine Feehan, Elizabeth Hoyt, Guardians of Eternity, J.R. Ward, Maiden Lane, Nalini Singh, Psy-Changling, Sabrina Jeffries, Sharon Cullen, Sinful Suitors, Top Ten Tuesday
Today's Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by the Broke and the Bookish, is Books On My Fall TBR List
Archangel's Heart (Guild Hunter #9) by Nalini Singh
Release Date: November 1st
Synopsis: New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh takes us into a dangerous and exhilarating world where a deadly, beautiful archangel and his once-mortal consort are caught in a fury of twisted darkness…
Leopard's Furt (Leopards #9) by Christine Feehan
Release Date: November 8th
Synopsis: A ruthless criminal unleashes his most feral desires in the new Leopard novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild Cat.
The Danger of Desire (Sinful Suitors #3) by Sabrina Jeffries
Release Date: November 22nd
Synopsis: The third book in the sexy Sinful Suitors Regency romance series, this heart-pounding story shows why New York Timesbestselling author Sabrina Jeffries is one of the most beloved historical romance writers today.
Campbell's Redemption (Highland Pride #3) by Sharon Cullen
Synopsis: Seduction betrays two Scottish patriots in Sharon Cullen's sweeping Highland Pride romance—sure to thrill readers of Maya Banks and Monica McCarty—as a widowed young healer teaches a stubborn chieftain to trust his heart.
The Heiress and the Hothead (Sinful Suitors #1.5) by Sabrina Jeffries
Release Date: November 28th
Synopsis: Stunned by the heat of an unexpected kiss on a cold winter's eve, two strangers from vastly different worlds turn hotheaded principles into burning passion in Sabrina Jeffries's delightful yuletide story, The Heiress and the Hothead.
Duke of Pleasure (Maiden Lane #11) by Elizabeth Hoyt
Synopsis: IN THE ARMS OF DANGER
Bold. Brave. Brutally handsome. Hugh Fitzroy, the Duke of Kyle, is the king's secret weapon. Sent to defeat the notorious Lords of Chaos, he is ambushed in a London alley—and rescued by an unlikely ally: a masked stranger with the unmistakable curves of a woman.
Cocky. Clever. Courageously independent. Alf has survived on the perilous streets of St. Giles by disguising her sex. By day she is a boy, dealing in information and secrets. By night she's the notorious Ghost of St. Giles, a masked vigilante. But as she saves Hugh from assassins, she finds herself succumbing to temptation.
Blood Vow (Black Dagger Legacy #2) by J.R.Ward
Release Date: December 6th
Synopsis: #1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward returns as her thrilling, original spin-off series set in the world of the Black Dagger Brotherhood continues! When a brooding vampire warrior-in-training teams up with a quick-witted aristocrat to solve a deadly mystery, the only thing more dangerous than their mission is their undeniable attraction.
Trainees at the Black Dagger Brotherhood's training center continue to prepare for the war against the Lessening Society, but fighting is the last thing on Axe's mind. Still plagued with the guilt of his father's death, the brooding loner finds himself battling an unlikely attraction to Peyton's enticing, aristocratic cousin, Elise. Elise feels it, too – especially when the two are thrown together in unusual circumstances, and she must decide whether she can trust Axe as she uncovers the mystery surrounding her sister's death.
Meanwhile, Mary and Rhage are fostering Bitty, a young pretrans orphan, and hope to adopt her… until the appearance of a young male claiming to be Bitty's blooded uncle threatens to tear the new family apart.
Allegiance of Honor (Psy-Changeling #15) by Nalini Singh
Synopsis: The "unparalleled romantic adventure"* of Nalini Singh's New York Times bestselling series continues as a new dawn begins for the Psy-Changeling world…
The Psy-Changeling world has undergone a staggering transformation and now stands at a crossroads. The Trinity Accord promises a new era of cooperation between disparate races and groups. It is a beacon of hope held together by many hands: Old enemies. New allies. Wary loners.
But a century of distrust and suspicion can't be so easily forgotten and threatens to shatter Trinity from within at any moment. As rival members vie for dominance, chaos and evil gather in the shadows and a kidnapped woman's cry for help washes up in San Francisco, while the Consortium turns its murderous gaze toward a child who is the embodiment of change, of love, of piercing hope: A child who is both Psy…and changeling.
To find the lost, protect the vulnerable—and save Trinity—no one can stand alone. This is a time of loyalty across divisions, of bonds woven into the heart and the soul, of heroes known and unknown standing back to back and holding the line. But is an allegiance of honor even possible with traitors lurking in their midst?
Once upon a Christmas Eve (Maiden Lane #) by Elizabeth Hoyt
Synopsis: none at this time
Where Darkness Lives (Guardians of Eternity #8.5) by Alexandra Ivy
Release Date: December 20th
New Release! A Highlander's Christmas Kiss (Highland Heirs #5) by Paula Quinn
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A Highlander's Christmas Kiss (Highland Heirs #5) by Paula Quinn
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A STRANGER'S SMILE
Christmas may be coming to Linavar, but Temperance Menzie is far from joyful. Grief-stricken over the death of her father at the hands of the Black Riders, she almost didn't see the wounded stranger in the woods. And now she's determined to give this braw, brooding Highlander the help she couldn't give her father. But there's a secret lurking in the depths of his blue-gray eyes. And Temperance won't rest until she uncovers it . . .
A LOVER'S KISS
A killer for hire. It's the last thing Cailean Grant ever thought he'd become, but being part of the Black Riders was his only way to survive. Now, his guilt grows day by day, along with his desire for the beautiful, brave lass nursing him back to health. As Christmas, the season of miracles, draws near and the truth of his identity threatens to come out, Cailean must risk the only thing he has left to lose – his heart.
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On Sale! Feel the Burn by G. A. Aiken
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Feel The Burn (DragonKin #8) by G.A. Aiken
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Synopsis: War makes strange bedfellows.
I, Gaius Domitus, one-eyed rebel dragon king of the Provinces, know that better than most, since I have to fight off half my ungrateful family on a regular basis to keep law and order here in my lands. But I never expected to have to consort with a barbarian human woman.
Kachka is beautiful, if you like them fierce—and of course I do. But she keeps complaining about how spoiled and decadent I am, and how a feared Daughter of the Steppes has no time for foolish dragons. I think she likes my eye patch, though. It is quite dashing. With death always at our tails, we take our passion like we take our allies. As they say, love the barbarian you're with…
Vexed (The Haunting of Keyvnor #1) ~Once Upon a Moonlit Path by Ava Stone
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Vexed (The Haunting of Keyvnor #1)
Once Upon a Moonlit Path by Ava Stone
Synopsis: Lady Cassandra Priske sees dead people…not all the time, but occasionally. When her family is summoned to Castle Keyvnor for the reading of her great uncle's will, Cassy is more than terrified. After all, the castle is famous for its hauntings. But the very last person, dead or alive, she expects to find there is the rakish Lord. St. Giles. After all, she spent the last season hiding from that very man.
Review: Ava Stone's story is part of a trilogy book. I have not read the other two pieces in it. I received this copy in exchange for an honest review (of Ava Stone's piece only).
A cute spooky ghost story about Lord St.Giles who has loved Cassy for more than a year. He has invited himself along with his friend Michael to the reading of her Great Uncle's will just so he can see and woo her. She is a woman who is intimidated by his reputation and has tried a avoid him. St. Giles scheme to catch her at the spooky and haunted castle succeeds and he sets out to finally win her hand. The relationship blossoms but there is a problem, she can see ghosts and when she sees one very foreboding ghost she can't help but scream. Everyone there, including her parents and St. Giles, believe that she has gone mad. At first, he tries to believe her, but her ability to see ghosts that he cannot see causes him to wonder if maybe she isn't the wife for him. Will he throw caution to the wind and realize that life with her is worth a ghost or two? It was cute, sweet, and romantic. I enjoyed the chemistry between the two main characters and the struggle they face concerning her ability to see (or not see) ghosts.
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Hexbound (Dark Arts #2) by Bec McMaster
Synopsis: It should have been an easy task…
Verity Hastings has a little trick; she can find anything, no matter where it's hidden. It's a skill that's kept her safe and fed all the way from the orphanages and workhouses of her youth. But when she steals a mysterious item for a masked man, she knows the con is on her this time.
In order to protect herself from his associates, she can turn to only one person: Adrian Bishop, the sorcerer she stole the relic from.
Scarred recluse, Adrian Bishop, is rarely surprised anymore. But when a rather enticing little handful turns up on his doorstep claiming to be his mysterious thief, he doesn't know what to think. He needs the relic back, no matter the cost, and he's not above using Verity to find it. But as Verity begins to sneak under his guard, for the first time in years there's a ray of light in his dark world. He will do anything to protect her–anything–but can Verity ever love him once she learns the truth of his darkest secret?
Wyvern's Prince (Dragons of Incendium #2) by Deborah Cooke
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Synopsis: Engaged to the crown prince Urbanus of Regalia, Gemma knows that her fiancé was the one to try to arrange Drakina's assassination. She intends to keep the betrothal and take vengeance upon Urbanus from inside his palace. She's not counting on more dark revelations about her betrothed, much less his beguiling charm. Alone in Urbanus' palace, Gemma can only rely upon herself to ensure her survival—or can she trust the mysterious stranger who pledges to aid her, for his own reasons?
Review: This one was ok. I liked the whole toad prince angle. It made it humorous and added an interesting twist. The plot and character development moved along well up to the point where he was set free from his curse, then things just seemed to move too fast. They didn't waste any time hooking up once he was human. She didn't stop to think that maybe she shouldn't be so quick to trust him. He became human, they hooked up, then they were telling the other they loved the other. His lack of believing in love didn't seem to cause to pause before he took the step into loving her. I think this one would have been so much better if it was longer. Their relationship needed to grow more once he was human. And some things just didn't add up. He slips and says a comment about his brother, calling Urbanus his twin brother while he is still a toad, but she doesn't seem to realize he made that major slip. How did she not catch that? Then in the cave, an extra set of clothes that fit him just so happen to be in the satchel that Celo gave Gemma? There were some holes in the storyline that just made it feel rushed and not congruous to a warrior princess trained to be a mercenary and a prince cursed by his own family into being a toad for years. It had potential; it just needed more. I did like the back and forth between Gemma and the toad Prince, there was some great dialogue there and the bad guy was well written. You definitely didn't like Urbanus after the wedding night trickery.
I received a copy in exchange for an honest review.
Nero's Dream (Dragons of Incendium #1.5) by Deborah Cooke
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Synopsis: Nero has always aspired to be an astrologer in the royal court of Incendium. When he divines a portent about the pending royal marriage, he makes the perilous journey to the capital city, only to be kept from delivering his tidings in time. Worse, Nero is assigned the task of pursuing a dragon princess bent on taking vengeance upon her reluctant groom, a feat he knows can't be done. His dream appears to be lost forever—until the captivating princess Peri surprises this unlikely advisor.
Nero's Dream is a short story set in the same world as the Dragons of Incendium series of paranormal romances. It should be read after Wyvern's Mate.
Review: A very short, about 34 pages, in which we see how things began with the Royal House of Incendium. Drakina, who we met in book one (Wyvern's Mate), is left at the alter in front of all invited guests and dignitaries. Nero has arrived in order to give his prophecy in hopes of stopping this event, but because he is not an officially trained astrologer, he is turned away. As he leaves the palace, his prophecy comes to pass and he is sent to bare witness to Princess Drakina's vengeance against her missing groom. In so doing he is welcomed into the inner circle of the royal family.
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A Scot in The Dark (Scandal & Scoundrel #2) by Sarah MacLean
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Synopsis: Lonesome Lily Turned Scandalous Siren
Miss Lillian Hargrove has lived much of her life alone in a gilded cage, longing for love and companionship. When an artist offers her pretty promises and begs her to pose for a scandalous portrait, Lily doesn't hesitate…until the lying libertine leaves her in disgrace. With the painting now public, Lily has no choice but to turn to the one man who might save her from ruin.
Highland Devil turned Halfhearted Duke
The Duke of Warnick loathes all things English, none more so than the aristocracy. It does not matter that the imposing Scotsman has inherited one of the most venerable dukedoms in Britain—he wants nothing to do with it, especially when he discovers that the unwanted title comes with a troublesome ward, one who is far too old and far too beautiful to be his problem.
Tartan Comes to Town
Warnick arrives in London with a single goal: get the chit married and see her become someone else's problem, then return to a normal, quiet life in Scotland. It's the perfect plan, until Lily declares she'll only marry for love…and the Scot finds that there is one thing in England he likes far too much…
Review: Alec, the Duke of Warnick, was introduced in A Rogue Not Taken. He is a Scotsman who hates all things English. So when he discovers that he has a ward in London he knew nothing about and that she has gone and done something scandalous to ruin her reputation, he has only one thought- get to London and get the chit married off quickly then get back home to Scotland. What he isn't prepared for is Lily, a woman who is both strong and courageous yet also very vulnerable and hurt. Their sparring back and forth was delightful to watch. Their going from being attracted to each other to quite annoyed with the behavior of the other made for a high emotional and passion filled love story. Their race against time to find the scandalous painting before all of London sees Lily's shame, the appearance of a woman from Alec's past that left him scarred and believing himself unworthy of a beauty like Lily, and the return of the characters from the Rules of a Scoundrel series and The Rogue Not Taken make for a fun read. I enjoy the characterization that Sarah MacLean does so well. Her female characters are always so strong and passionate and the men who fall in love with them are very much their equals, flaws and all.


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