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SEATTLE (July 30, 2018) – Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Andrew Moriarty has joined the firm's Labor & Employment group as a partner in the Seattle office. He joins from Amazon, where he was senior corporate counsel. Andrew was previously with Perkins Coie from 1998 to 2013.
Andrew focuses on a wide range of labor and employment matters, including contractor classification, labor relations, class action claims, litigation, and claims brought before various state and federal agencies. He also has extensive credentials dealing with the labor and employment law nuances associated with third-party vendor relationships, discrimination and contract actions, and contractor misclassification cases in Washington and California.
"We're thrilled to welcome Andrew back to the firm," said James Williams, Perkins Coie's Seattle Office Managing Partner. "He is a highly regarded attorney with excellent technical skills and a great aptitude for mentoring junior lawyers. He will be a valuable addition to our team in the Pacific Northwest."
Upon his re-entry into private practice, Andrew will counsel clients across a variety of industries including tech, telecom, transportation, food and beverage, education and aerospace.
"Andrew's in-house experience provides him an exceptional understanding of our clients' needs and the employment challenges they face day-to-day," said Ann Marie Painter, Chair of Perkins Coie's Labor & Employment group. "He is a passionate attorney with the desire to dig deep into the issues, and he will serve as a vigorous advocate in the courtroom."
Andrew earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center and his B.A., magna cum laude, from Boston University.
Perkins Coie's Labor & Employment practice, one of the largest in the western United States with more than four dozen attorneys, represents employers in all facets and at all stages of labor and employment relations. With sweeping geographic reach and rare substantive depth, our lawyers routinely confront some of the most challenging issues facing employers in the modern workplace.
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The Tests of all Tests Taking Each DEEPER into Clearing Linear Programming and CORE Everything…
Deeper into the Root (Chakra) of everything, deeper into the/our Core (Galactic/SOULar), deeper into those hidden/suppressed/linear programs of separation that we didn't know were there… Here we go. Further within and out through our Soul & Star (Chakras) and individual StarGate Systems finally linked up with the new Operating Systems that our Galactic Bodies have built to constantly link up and synchronize continually, every day now. I use the "Chakra" word, because this is what most understand. It goes far beyond this, as each becomes a spinning, expanding and contracting vortex/portal/galaxy (multi-dimensional gateway) once you fully activate/open, align and continually intentionally synchronize these from within you with your whole field to operate at the highest vibration of light all of the time…
We see vibrationally/holographically, across dimensions/timelines, infinite collective programs being affected by this. The overall visual brings the words "The MotherLoad of all tests", as we move into the Lion's Gateway 8/8/8 and the Convergence 8/21 "time" "frames", then into the September Equinox, then the 11/11 Gateway into the December Solstice Gateway and beyond. Each more potent and powerful that ever before.
As humans we see everything linearly, because this is how we functioned in the lower dimension realms of Old Unconscious Earth. Our bodies still hold programming that must be cleared, regardless of our ability to maintain higher consciousness. First we must be able to maintain, then the body & physical catches up. Physical matter took form. Changing that form, means re-writing everything through new en-codements, new DNA configurations, new non-linear geometrics and bodily systems that run on all new enhanced (Soul) Sequences and Codes.
NEW Earth is a whole new EVOLVED Value System, a whole new way of existence that is VIBRATIONAL and totally non-linear. To our/the human aspect, it cannot understand. It takes connecting fully, deep within with our own Soul to SEE what was not visible before. It takes letting go of old programmed mindsets, old beliefs, old associations, old everything that makes sense and completely adapting to a whole new system that is often the opposite of what we once believed…..
There is a Grand Plan, a Grand Design, that all agreed to come here and participate in, before ever incarnating/taking physical body form. Each is now participating excactly as agreed, on a Soul Level. Every one is exactly where they are meant to be, experiencing exactly what they "need/agreed" to experience in order to AWAKEN to REMEMBER fully again. Each experience resolves separation energy, that anchored the body in lower dimensional realms of amnesia, embroiled in a heavy/deep Matrix program that continually concludes.
Those who were deeply embedded, deeply asleep, holding deep karmic (unconscious) programs, "falling" deep into the "lowest" unconscious realms of amnesia, have more "fog" to clear, have more physical realities to overcome/resolve/evolve, than someone who has been partially awake much of their existence here. It doesn't matter though, as each will go through many "deaths" of old programming, on an emotional/mental and physical level too. These deaths are different for each, yet necessary for the body to come through/transition over to "the other side", to awaken to/come to exist on NEW Earth, where UNITY and PURE LOVE are the core of all things here.
You will never not have an old program to resolve, it's just to the degree you must experience each, and often barely at all. The more you exist as your Universal/Unified Self, the less physical everything is, and it just becomes energy you work through/dissolve/resolve, for the physical to reshape/re-materialize in new form for you.
Everything is FOR you, everything is a GIFT, everything opens your heart and eyes, to what you could not see/understand yet. Everything brings you closer to the magic and magnificence that already exists, everything clears an old cellular program…. everything does this.
This passageway is going to take each into the "next phase". Dependent on where you currently are (newly awakened or functioning as your higher Self/Spirit/Soul/Galactic aspects), it doesn't matter, because everything will be to evolve you beyond your current state. Everything is to bring you further into NEW Earth Existence than before and further collapse those strong programs that you were operating under, those old beliefs and mentalities that functioned linearly to create a physical reality that's got to be completely undone…..
NEW Earth is a completely different existence. The old rules do not apply here. Nothing will be as you "thought" it to be. You will be challenged to see differently and to apply value vibrationally, instead of linearly like before.
These initiations are going to take each DEEPER and further into anything that is not NEW EARTH/UNITY/LOVE….
At the CORE of these, are your associations and relationships with everything, most of all yourself/soul. You will be challenged with how you value and see all. You will be challenged with re-associating according to vibrational, instead of what makes sense or deep seeded programming "telling you" what's right/wrong. Your human mind won't be able to understand, yet your heart & Higher Mind (Soul You) will.
Deeply intricate in it's workings, yet simple for the heart & mind that are truly open and ready to be a part of a NEW EVERYTHING that thrives, is alive and is the most magnificent and magical experience.
This NEW SYSTEM is built on a FOUNDATION OF UNITY, PEACE, RESPECT, INTEGRITY AND LOVE. What you "thought" these were won't even come close. As a Soul, you breathe these easily, because this is who you are. As a human aspect, you have to try and it's always backwards for awhile. Your biggest challenge? Judgment and trying to see beyond the old ways…. trying to apply obsolete beliefs that will keep you bound to a collapsing timeline that needs to be be-restructured and brought into accordance with Higher Light, Higher Intelligence, Higher Love, Higher Purpose everything….. You will have to choose to let go of your old way of thinking if you desire to leave old Earth and "move" to NEW. Every system is different here. Your physical body, the physical reality, everything…..
As we go DEEPER, each will be called to identify their own old belief systems and choose to transcend these from within. You have to truly desire, and commit, to understanding these "new ways", for they are not new, they are locked away, hidden deep within your Higher Consciousness/Chrystalline/Christed/Galactic DNA and these new frequencies that we've activated since the June 2017 Solstice and this whole last week's Sirian/Lyran StarGate Re-alignment move everyone into looking at their own RELATIONSHIPS with EVERYTHING…..
Money, things, each other, self, the physical, your SOUL…. and the value you put on everything and how you see value, how you spend your time/energy/money… which version of Earth you Support… with your time/energy/money…. then that will be the one you are currently vibrating at/on… and where go in & out of consciousness on this, then you will vibrate back and forth to resolve this, all of this separation within you, until you UNIFY and return to full love again too.
NEW EARTH has it's own evolved Value System and everything goes to support this. Where you do not yet value, where you do not yet support, where you hold back on contributing and using all that you have/are, then this will become visible in your own REALity/world. NEW Earth is a full body, full you, full everything commitment, from DEEP inside of you. It is not a "partially/maybe/okay because it serves me now" kind of thing. It requires your full commitment and your letting go of the duality/right/wrong/judgment/competition/scarcity/lack energy that you still hold….
Human aspects separate out money, love, respect, work, me-time, time…. Souls Unify these back into the same thing…. LOVE and deep Sacred Respect. This will all boil down to how connected you are inside, how much you truly love and respect you, so that you CAN hold this for others too.
NEW EARTH IS SOULS walking in the physical, whole souls, not fragmented pieces and parts. It's where you've recalled/reclaimed/re-united with all of YOUR OWN ASPECTS and merged them within your physical body form (Embodiment). How much you WALK AS THIS and how much YOUR ACTIONS reflect this too. You will be Angels, Gods, Christ, Galactics, Elementals… every Light BEing imaginable, returned…. and ONE AGAIN… Dissolving the separation between your existences… LeMUrian, Atlantean, Egyptian, Sirian/Lyran/Andromedan/Arcturian/Pleaidian (infinite on these), dissolving the battles between Heaven & Hell (God/Lucifer), Angels, Archangels and Galactic Oppression/Suppression/Heavy Duty Wars, Hurt & Hate… You will eventually remember your own "fall from consciousness", your Birth as a Star, your descent into unconsciousness and for awhile, you will move between every one of these to resolve deeply embedded human programming…. This was the Human Experience/Experiment and when it's really time to wake up… your whole reality starts to change…. and collectively, this is what has been going on on Earth, for this whole earthly existence… you all have been "trying" to wake up, yet it was not time before, as you had many human experiences still to complete, information and skills to gather, that will assist you as you fully exit the Matrix Program and now enter a whole new "program" called NEW Earth.
Our NEW Earth Project is HUGE and we all have much to accomplish TOGETHER here, yet before you can fully unify, you'll have to work through your own separation programs and you'll have to learn to stand on your own two feet, as an Angel, as a Christed BEing, As a God (Pure Source Creator Light), as a Higher Self as the whole Universe and Galaxies too….. You will step into your WayShower roles, your Supportive Roles, in order to become a part of the bigger picture, the Grand Plan/Design…. and access will be granted as you DO the things you see, inside, the holographic schematics bringing new vision into your own reality…. now how do you accomplish it all? This is where you "grow up" from being birthed anew, this is where you start to really see your gifts and value and your own Soul Purposes/Missions and what you are here to BE/DO… It will blow your mind, excited you and scare the hell out of your human all at the same time. You'll have to choose in every moment and learn to walk in realities that are not fixed anymore… they are vibrational, a response to you and they shift/change for you, when you are ready to jump, as you hold more light, as you integrate the immensity within you and "learn" to Master each little thing, with all new everything, all new understandings, all new purposes, all new associations, all new values…..
NEW Earth is UNITY CONSCIOUSNESS, where each is a part of the whole. It is each one of us coming together, getting over/moving through/dealing with/resolving/dissolving our own human stuff and realizing that we are here to support each other in every way. You will use your time/energy/money to support, create, inspire, assist, make a difference…. and it won't be like the old system in any way (fear, security, safety, mine/not enough). Everything will be FOR EVERYONE and there is infinite abundance in all. You will be an ANGEL here to gift others, you will be the Universe bestowing magnificence too, you will be the ONE that determines which physical reality you experience… Old Earth or NEW.
Higher Dimensional timelines now replace the lower ones…. as the lower bandwidths continue to unravel in increasingly rapid succession, the speed at which this evolution occurs has been significantly sped up. The "force" at which it occurs has too. This can be a beautiful POWER to move each as love through or it can do the opposite…. you get to choose.
Now, every core everything becomes the focus of these energies… YOUR RELATIONSHIP with yourself/soul, your earthly body as a beautiful vessel/container that barely holds your Divinity, your Essence, the Purity of your Immense Light and Love, with physical world things, with money, with the Earth/Gaia, with the Universe, with everything… with an increased focus on HOW YOU LOVE, RESPECT, APPRECIATE & TREAT YOURSELF on a Soul Level which expands out to others… for now we move into possibly one of the hardest parts…. your RELATIONSHIP with each other and this becoming PURE on every level, in every way. Can you truly open up, support and SHARE, everything that you are and have? Where do you hold back" Any agendas you have will become visible, yet this can be an awesome thing. For when you share your AGENDAS (Disclosure = Sharing) and your Agendas are PURE, then this can be a beautiful thing, as they are not agendas anymore. They purposes aligned with our highest everything…. something the human aspect cannot understand/see.
You will have to unite, use the physical to make a difference, to support what we are all here to experience, accomplish, do…. If you wish/desire to EXPERIENCE FULLY the infinite amazingness that waits for each of you…. It's already here, all around you, in the air that you breathe. It's magical, amazing, a gift and it's full-blow crystalline. Breathing crystalline air is different and your lungs must adapt to this. Your head too. Gravity goes along the way, this is normal too. Your whole body is being re-worked so you can walk in these higher dimensional realms with greater ease. Your body will change in size, your bones will expand & contract (yes it's painful for awhile), crystals under your skin burst when your star particles are activated (Galactic DNA), your organs, glands, entire nervous system, brain, blood all re-work how they function, so take care in your perceptions where your body is concerned. Actually take great care in all of your perceptions, as they will not conform to the old.
When you look OUT, look with love, respect, appreciate and gratitude for every experience, everything you've gained/received, see ALL as a great gift (your human will go into story/lack/blame/judgment, so you can tell the difference in which you are being), realize that as you open up, as you share more (physical world things too), as you understand everything non-linearly, then the "things" won't matter in the way they did, they will have new meaning, new purpose and they will support you and all…. When you truly understand how all of this works, it will be easy and infinite abundance will flow freely for each of you…. which is how NEW Earth realities are…..
Connect on a deeper level, expand your energy OUT…. connect with everything around you, as LOVE… see the REFLECTION coming back to you… to show you what's inside…. to show you everything you "need to know" to shift to a higher timeline easier….. Your human will see in linear and try to use old equations and calculations to understand… these no longer apply, especially when you are moving from and old unconscious value system to a fully consciousness non-linear/vibrational one.
This passageway through August (and sooooo far beyond), now amps up our own RELATIONSHIPS with ourselves, as Pure Source Light and each other, as Star Beings/Soul Family here to unite, to come together to form the UNIFIED PRESENCE of NEW EARTH in ways that your human aspect will fight. Your love for your siSTARS and Brothers is immense. Incarnating/walking-in here, you were separated from each other… Now this separation begins to end. It will be up to you to unite in the physical, to synchronize to the same frequency and where there is any separation/human programs running, this won't be able to occur until all that separation is gone and your Galactic Soul is the presence that is dominant. You will move in and out of each other's realities resolving/dissolving/working through your own human'ness/linear programs/separation until you are ready to come together to do what you came here to do…. to fulfill your highest purposes and missions in order to experience the brilliance of your NEW Earth Existence now.
Here, everything is visible, where you hold back, are not ready and hold unconscious programming too. Your Karma is also visible to those who have cleared this… and there are many "levels" of Karma/Karmic programs that now expedite to clear. Each one will present as you move from phase to phase. Your human Karma (this existence) is the first one. Then you will move to abundance, twin, Galactic and Relationships (in general)…. Each must be cleared across all dimensions/timelines… this is a heavy/daunting task for awhile… for you will have to unify all separation, transcend/overcome, reverse the flow of energy, build momentum, sustain and keep doing this until your own inner light/energy can do this for you easily….
Multi-Dimensionality is the biggest challenge you will meet, "once" you've Mastered your own human aspect, then you'll move into mastering everything. Inside, outside, the physical, across timelines and holding all/balancing all within your body then balancing this with the external/physical too. As you leave the old matrix, everything becomes Plasma, Energy, no solidity, no shape, no form… until you form it, focus on it, create it through the energy that you hold. Through your "new gifts" (as fully conscious energy), you will gain enhanced abilities in every way. Through your expansion of consciousness, this becomes easy, natural, so much that you don't even realize things half of the time…
Expanding Universes & Galaxies…. birthing new in every moment, dissolving old timelines (collapsing big ones sometimes), all intentionally and fully aligned. Your new enhanced abilities, combined with others who maintain their Ascended and Master state too, is a powerful force to be reckoned with…. and NEW Earth is each one of you together again, doing this…. How beautiful is that? ♥
We've entered a huge initiation gateway that will take us through August now… to resolve any old constructs (realities) holding you/each to old timelines that are ready to dissolve/come down now. Through the end of 2017 and into 2018 (linear time), the further formation of our NEW EARTH Civilizations will come forefront more and more and more… as this replaces the old everything and it takes us all. Stepping into our roles as Whole Souls and Galactics incarnated on this physical earthly plane to be the NEW… BY UNITING, coming together and stopping the separation game. Yes it is a game, especially if you are still playing in it, judging and holding back/out for something "out there" to save you/do anything for you…. the old programming of "putting this off on others", even etherically….
I love you and am excited for what is to come for us all. We've worked hard for this over the years/eons… and for each, yes "it is here". This will be different for each, dependent on the current phase. It doesn't really matter what that is, when it supports UNITY – LOVE – THE WHOLE – THE BIGGER PICTURE… then it's for us all… Remember this. ♥
p.s. You are going to continually see an increase in ego structures dismantle, which can go into desperation, heavy narcissism, pointing the finger and judgment, assumptions. Take great care if this triggers/activates yours. Human aspects are not privy to the information that the higher realms/NEW Earth operates under yet and there will be much confusion (even greater than before) about CORE BELIEFS as each works to transition to a whole new way of "thinking" that might look "one way", yet it's something completely different….. This is uber important as we move into these next phases of cleansing/purification/unified existence now.
We move further into the ENERGY OF LOVE, money, security, sex, relationships, self, things and the meaning of all of this…. Soul aligned and human aligned are very different and we move into increased karmic clearing of unconscious programs with the Earth, our bodies, our realities, each other, Galactically… all. Uprooting deeply embedded structural programs and completely re-defining all.
Lisa Transcendence Brown.
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A compilation of sorts. Might be a bit different to other compilations that you're used to. But my aim here was to provide more snippets and summaries. Highly encourage you to read the source material for a more well-rounded view on his thoughts though.
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On Social Capital (His venture fund)
We are not building a venture fund – at least that's now what I want to build – and I don't really have any attachment to the role of CEO, but I do think I set the vision of a place, culture, and values of where we work.
If you ask me what we are today: we are in this primordial stage where we look like a venture firm. We take a lot of capital – ours and other people's – and invest it in businesses. But I think what we are really doing is building this tool kit with interesting companies spanning a bunch of industries I think are important for us, and for the world.
What I would like for us to evolve into is something that looks more like Berkshire Hathaway and the Peace Corp, with this idea that you make exorbitant amounts of profit by making really smart bets on things that are important. You allocate those resources against the most important issues of the day.
I think the single most interesting business opportunity in the world is to find a way to create equity out of inequity. I think we are underestimating is the amount of pent up frustration that exists in the bulk of the population, where you don't have as much equity as you thought. I think that boils over in unpredictable ways. I want to spend the next 30 or 40 years on that problem.Source: Startup Grind's VC Corner Article
On His Upbringing
So, my parents craved money, meaning they needed it because my dad was unemployed for long stretches of time. My mom was the sole breadwinner. She was a housekeeper, then she was a nurse's aide. And I would just see how she grinded. We didn't have a car for a long time. She takes the bus, we all take the bus. When I got my first job, it was at Burger King. I'd take the money, and I had to give it to my parents, and we would buy bus passes.
And I remember telling some of my friends, I went to a very good high school, kind of like the rich high school. Not the high school I should've gone to. I was able to go to this different high school. And I would tell them, like, I would be so ashamed that I worked at Burger King. They would sometimes come by, and I would just be like fuck… And then at some point, it was like this release moment where I was, like this is my life. I can't do anything about it. This is what it is right now. And I kind of had a sense that I could figure some stuff out later, but I didn't really know. And so I just accepted it.
And then the minute I accepted it, I wasn't ashamed anymore. And then, when I wasn't ashamed I could start to actually be inside my head, like, what really matters? So then what happened was there was these massive racial riots in Los Angeles. And not as if the fucking American government did anything about it. But the Canadian government was like, shit, let's get all these black and brown kids jobs, because we don't want the Rodney King riots in Toronto, and Ottawa, and parts of Ontario.
And so I was able to take all of my dad's rejection letters, call every single one. And one of them gave me a job. And I worked at the well-known telecommunication start-up in Ottawa.Source: The Singju Post's Transcript of the Money as an Instrument of Change
On the future of Venture in Silicon Valley
I think there is a huge rude awakening that's going to exist in the venture landscape, and it goes along the following lines. Most of the practitioners, exactly as you said, I think are dated both in their philosophy, their framework and their capability, right? These are people that grew up in a different time where the social signaling of where they went to school mattered enough where they could get these prestigious, "prestigious," jobs. The problem is that it's not a prestigious job, it's a critical job, and so the people who get prestige versus the people that get criticality are very different kinds of people.
The rude awakening is going to be the following, which is that when you look across the venture landscape you have a bunch of people who are, frankly, ill-suited to do what they're doing, and so as a result they feed off historical bias, they kinda focus on the things that they know the best, which will result ultimately in a bunch of marginal investments.Source: Vox's Transcript from Recode Decode
On how the world works
Look, here's the thing, there's about 150 people that run the world. Anybody who wants to go into politics, they're all fucking puppets, okay? There are 150, and they're all men that run the world, period, full stop. They control most of the important assets, they control the money flows. And these are not the tech entrepreneurs. Now they are going to get rolled over over the next five to ten years by the people that are really underneath pulling the strings.
And when you get behind the curtain and see how that world works, what you realize is, it is unfairly set up for them and their progeny. Now, I'm not going to say that that's something that we can rip apart. But first order of business is, I want to break through and be at that table. That's the first order of business. And the way that I do that is by proving that I can do what they do as well as they do it and then do it better than how they do it.
Because at the end of the day, they are commercial fucking animals, okay? And they'll open the door out of curiosity and they'll let me stay because I add value. And then once I'm there, I can open the door for other people who can try to do the same thing. So my entire goal now is that, is to be in a position to aggregate enough of the capital of the world, to then reallocate it against my worldview. And I'm not saying my worldview is the best or right, but it is mine.
And at the end of the day, there are 150 other fucking guys with their worldview and they don't give a shit what you think about their fucking worldview. That's the truth. And so, why not me? Why not? Why not one of you? Why not?
And so in my life now I'm just kind of like, why not? Why the fuck not?Source: The Singju Post's Transcript of the Money as an Instrument of Change
On Bailouts
On Main Street today, people are getting wiped out. Right now, rich CEOs are not, boards that have horrible governance are not. People are.
What we've done is disproportionately prop up poor-performing CEOs and boards, and you have to wash these people out.
Just to be clear on who we are talking about. We're talking about a hedge fund that serves a bunch of billionaire family offices, who cares? They don't get the summer in the Hamptons? These are the people that purport to be the most sophisticated investors in the world.Source: Chamath's appearance on CNBC
On Twitter
Its biggest problem right now is the decay in human capital that's happening within that organization. There are just too many other interesting good companies that one can go work at if you are a very credible, talented contributor at Twitter, and the problem is in the absence of them completely kind of figuring out their true northern star metric, the next version of product market fit, it's a thing that just kinda stagnates and decays. So product engineering talent, and eventually that seeps into the quality of the business.Source: Vox's Transcript from Recode Decode
Is it fixable? Absolutely. Would it be a fun thing to do? Absolutely. Would it be valuable for the world? Absolutely. Could you make a lot of money? Absolutely. But I think it requires day-to-day full-time leadership and a vision, and it's probably best in my opinion it comes from the outside in, at this point.
On Facebook and Google
Unstoppable. I think the thing that Facebook and Google will both have to contend with is regulatory headwinds, specifically starting in Europe.
Facebook and Google more than anything else now are a psychological map of humanity. Your behaviors, your patterns, what you do, what you say, where you go, and to have that amount of knowledge that can be learned on concentrated in two for-profit companies can be in the eyes of governments extremely scary. And so at scale this becomes a huge issue as people realize the actual scope and scale of their ability to predict your behavior. So I'll just leave it at that.
But I've thought really deeply about this issue, and that is the government. It's government intervention for both of those two businesses, starting in Europe.
The thing with Facebook and Google ultimately is that Facebook is basically about consumption and advertising, and Google is about intent in advertising. Those two are bounded markets that are in the mid hundreds of billions. Big markets, okay.Source: Vox's Transcript from Recode Decode
On dropping out to start a Startup?
my whole thing is for every person that drops out, which is fine and good, there is so much value in working at a company. I worked at AOL. I worked at Facebook before I started my startup, and I felt way more prepared. I was a 36-year-old founder/CEO. I'm glad I waited till I was 36. I had so much more knowledge because I learned from the side gig. I learned from people that were better than me. I also learned from people that were not as good as me about all the things that I shouldn't be doing.
We need to divorce ourselves from this romanticized narrative… like fallacy that we've created that is this two dudes, 22 years old, dropped out of school, coded some schmatzy thing. That's not what success is about necessarily. There are some great examples of that where they're creating real value, but there's all of these other things. There's 40-year-olds. There's 50-year-olds. There's 35-year-olds. There's men and women. There's people doing all kinds of things that are not easy, and we have to find a way of telling the world that this also exists, and this stuff is worthwhile because I suspect that the long-term solution for us being less tone-deaf and for us to actually be a constructive part of the solution is to celebrate with these people.Source: Semil Shah's Transcript from Post Seed 2016
On Investing as a team or as an individual?
I don't think investing is a team sportSource: Institutional Investors article – The Unusual Ambitions of Chamath Palihapitiya
The fundamental underwriting decisions of great investors over long periods of time are very lonely individual decisions," he explains. "It's about a kind of pattern recognition that very few people have. I don't know if I have it. But in order to find out, I need to isolate myself and do it myself.
On three technologies to watch
The first is sensor networks. The second is actually this push towards automated transportation. And the third is around a very specific application of big data.
So for the first example, what we're seeing now is sensors everywhere. And before, sensors were when people thought, "Oh, is that an RFID1 chip?" No. It's your phone, which has like 19 different things that it could be measuring at any given time. It's clothing that you're wearing, it's a Nike FuelBand, a Fitbit, whatever.
But the point is, the number of physical sensors are just exploding in scale. They're in the roads, they're in the air, they're on your body, they're in the phone, what have you.
And as that happens, what we're going to see are extremely explicit ways of improving one's quality of life, one's economic output, in really tangible and simple ways.
These sensor networks will drive tremendous value and efficiency for people. And I think we're not yet ready to really understand the totality of that impact, but it's going to touch every facet of our lives. So that's one area that I'm extremely excited by.
The second is really what Google is pioneering in the autonomous-vehicle space. It is probably the one thing that I've seen that could fundamentally have the high-order-bit effect on GDP.
You can completely re-envision cities, transportation models, and commerce with all these autonomous vehicles, with the ability to ship goods. So you can imagine a fleet of small electric cars that deliver all mail. A fleet of drones that drops off parcels from Amazon, Walmart, and Target, right to your doorstep. A fleet of trucks that doesn't cause traffic and congestion. An entire fleet of city vehicles paid for and bought by a state or by a city that provides public transportation in a predictable way. All these things have massive impacts to commerce and the mobility of individuals. And I think it's not well understood.
And then the last idea is that big data is kind of like this stupid buzz word—like "growth hacking," frankly—where you're really talking about just creating more noise and not enough signals.Source: Managing disruptive technology: A conversation with investor Chamath Palihapitiya Transcript by McKinsey
But in the specific case of genetics, I think we're making an extremely important shift, which is shifting the burden away from biologists to computer scientists. Because when you sequence an entire genome, what you're really doing is spitting out a 4 GB to 5 GB flat file of codes, which can be interpreted, where you can build machine learning—supervised or not—to intuit things, to make connections, to find correlations, to hopefully find causality. And across a broad population of people, you have the ability to use computer science to solve some of the most intricate problems of biology and life.
SPAC's VS VC funds?
SPACs are short bursts of effort from a fundraising perspective, while VC fundraising requires more hand-holding and thus time and focus.
As a head of a VC fund, you are no longer an investor; you become the head of investor relations. This is not a job I either liked or wanted to do.
I still have a couple of billion that I'm managing on behalf of others (the VC fund). But there's a $4 billion balance sheet that's mine. I don't have to answer to anybody.Source: Institutional Investors article – The Unusual Ambitions of Chamath Palihapitiya
On Companies Staying Private Versus Going Public
I don't understand why public is a bad thing. I think it's the most rationalizing thing in the word. Because you cannot hide behind bravado and nonsense. You are forced to show that you have articulated a strategy, and a gameplan, and a set of metrics, and narrative, and you have to explain that to people who may not necessarily care emotionally. That's not a bad thing. That is like an act of discipline. So as an example, you look at a company like Amazon, they barely generated a dollar of profit, but Bezos has created a envelop of trust in the public markets, which are extremely fickle, which are extremely judgmental, we claim them to be extremely short-sighted. Yet they've taken a 20-year multi-decade bet on this guy.
So I think that line of reasoning is just wad. It's an excuse that prevents you from being held accountable in ways that make you fundamentally uncomfortable, cause you're afraid of what it means to build a real business. Build a real business. Be around for decades. You have a compact with employees, financial source of capital, and you have an opportunity to have market leverage, if you're good, give you a currency that you can use, so that you can get to N of 1. So why wouldn't you do it?!
The people that don't do it, is the people that can't do it. And the people that can't do it, will, say all this stuff about waiting, waiting, cause the markets don't understand.. is just a false trade off, it's just an immature understanding of your own business. And what it tells me, is that you don't know your business. Jeff Bezos knows his business. Indisputable. He never grew it 100%. But he grew it 20% per year for 15 straight years. Bang, bang, bang, etc… That guy knows his business.Source: Transcript from Semil Shah @Chamath At StrictlyVC's Insider Series
The Health Of The SF Bay Area Tech Startup Ecosystem
There's way too much money, in the system, ultimately still chasing few really great companies. The problem with that is that you have a bunch of imposter companies that get funded for a lot longer than traditional cycles.
So if you had 1/10 the capital, the mortality rates would be higher, faster, the curves are sharp, and instead what happens is the decay is longer, and in the long decay, what essentially happens is that you are feeding capital to companies that should really not exist anymore, and those companies then use that capital to take up space. They use that capital to hire other employees, and all these other people spend a lot more time wasting their time. And that's problematic, and if you don't get that churn, then the few that have the ability to really get to escape velocity, are forced to figure out for themselves, how to get that sooner?
So what do they do? They start to pay people more, they start to spend more on these things that think will attract all these people, and that has this negative byproduct, which is everything goes up, the cost of everything starts to rise, and you have this really vicious cycle where at some point then that N + first young engineer, can't afford to come here in the first place because he can't even afford a 1 bedroom out of 5 bedrooms because it's $2000, and all of a sudden a first-year engineer is making $170K, and it's like this violent vicious cycle that helps nobody.Source: Transcript from Semil Shah @Chamath At StrictlyVC's Insider Series
On Value Investing and Value Investors
Those guys are morons
Today, when money has no value, because we've essentially printed all the money in the world and we'll continue to print it over and over, you have to find value in other parts of the balance sheet, so you have to go to things like brand or intangibles.
And this is where their mathematical models break, and then their brains explode.Source: Institutional Investors article – The Unusual Ambitions of Chamath Palihapitiya
On what drives him crazy
We have not done a good job of divorcing ourselves from the bullshit in Silicon Valley, and there's all layers of bullshit. You know, like we talked about some earlier, like, "Oh, I just came up with this thing, it was divine intervention." That's a crock of horseshit. "Oh, I knew this entrepreneur from Day One." That's a crock of horseshit. "Oh, I knew this thing would work and that thing would fail." That's a crock of horseshit.
So there's just layers and, "Oh, I found this thing," so there's layers and layers of this stuff. And the problem that it creates, I think, is that it just doesn't make it a fun place to be after a while. Because everybody in dealing with it, they all are like, "Wait a minute, you're bullshitting, you're bullshitting, you're bullshitting." They all become incrementally more mercenary, and then when that happens, because you have to put up a shield, right, you're less sympathetic, you're less connected to the people around you, and then you just, it's just not great.
So to me, what is driving me crazy is that. I would like for this to be like what it was, and now I sound like some nostalgia, okay, I'm back to the 70-year-old.Source: Vox's Transcript from Recode Decode
On failing fast and doing the hard thing
I think that that fail fast approach works in consumer Internet businesses, but I don't think it works for anything that really matters. Basically. Consumer Internet businesses are about exploiting psychology, and that is one where you want to fail fast because you know people aren't predictable and so we want to psychologically figure out how to manipulate you as fast as possible and then give you back that dopamine hit. We did that brilliantly at Facebook, Instagram has done it, WhatsApp has done it, Snapchat has done it, Twitter has done it. So there are great examples. WeChat is doing it.
There are great examples of failing fast is the right path to exploiting psychology of mass populations of people. But it is not how you solve diabetes. It is not how you use precision medicine to cure cancer. It is not how you educate broad swaths of the world's population. It's just not. It's taking a point of view and being methodical. It's hard, no it's hard.
I think that that fail fast approach works in consumer Internet businesses, but I don't think it works for anything that really matters. Basically. Consumer Internet businesses are about exploiting psychology, and that is one where you want to fail fast because you know people aren't predictable and so we want to psychologically figure out how to manipulate you as fast as possible and then give you back that dopamine hit. We did that brilliantly at Facebook, Instagram has done it, WhatsApp has done it, Snapchat has done it, Twitter has done it. So there are great examples. WeChat is doing it.
There are great examples of failing fast is the right path to exploiting psychology of mass populations of people. But it is not how you solve diabetes. It is not how you use precision medicine to cure cancer. It is not how you educate broad swaths of the world's population. It's just not. It's taking a point of view and being methodical. It's hard.Source: The Singju Post's Transcript of the Money as an Instrument of Change
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Former special ops-turned private-investigator Cam Hardy leaves a trail of broken hearts wherever he goes. He's all charm and sex appeal, and who can blame him for putting it to good use? Besides, it works damn well on the stunning and tough-as-nails makeup artist Drea Sanford. Only this time, Cam may be in over his head...
Drea is trying to keep her naughty affair with Cam a secret. After all, he's Harbor City's version of a Casanova...if Casanova had a motorcycle. When Cam makes their hot little liaison known to the public, however, Drea vows never to have sex with him again. Then one of her clients turns up dead. Now Drea is suspect number one—and she needs Cam's help. But sleeping with him is one thing...trusting him is quite another.
Drea got out of the seat and turned around to face him, but she was lost for words when she realized standing up had just given him a better view. Cam's green-eyed gaze took in her entire body. Then he grinned, pissing her off and drenching her panties at the same damn time.
If anyone could carry off absolutely wicked and totally charismatic at the same time, it was Cam. She itched to run her fingers through his thick mass of tousled honey blond hair. His murky green eyes were full of dark promise, the kind she knew he could deliver.
And then there was his body. She could eat Jell-O off of his tanned washboard abs and the gelatin wouldn't have the courage to jiggle. Being near him was like standing at the edge of the subway platform as the train whooshed by—exhilarating, dangerous, and addicting on a completely visceral level.
But he'd broken her rule. The one thing she'd asked him not to do—and he'd gone and done it anyway. She wasn't sure whether knowing he'd done it without thinking made the situation worse or just sad. But she couldn't keep seeing him if she couldn't trust him to keep this a secret. Hell, after that kiss, there was no secret. Cover blown. Everyone knew.
Time to cut her losses. Breaking it off now was the smart plan.
"I know what it is." He stood up and closed the distance between them. "You're embarrassed because you think someone saw your tongue push its way into my mouth—accidentally, I'm sure. And heard that sweet, soft moan of pleasure—"
She pushed her hand against his chest and forced him back. "Get over yourself, pretty boy."
He didn't even blink at the insult. "You want me. I want you. The sex is amazing. Why are you fighting so damn hard against letting people know we're together?"
"Because we're not." She had no plans to trod down the well-worn path to Cam Hardy's bed again. "You knew the rules when this thing started."
"No going public." His gaze pinned her to the spot, and he looked at her like she was the only woman in the world. "Look, babe, give me another chance."
It made her mouth go dry and other places get wet. They'd had one hell of a wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am twisting of the sheets, but they'd known from the start this was temporary. She'd known it. He'd known it. They'd agreed to keep it secret.
"It's over." Drea took a single step away from him.
He moved lightning fast to get in front of her, his bulk blocking her view of the rest of the group. "Don't go away mad, babe. Let me make it up to you. Tonight. My place. No one has to know."
She tossed her cup and plate into the trashcan. "Charming."
He threw up his hands in frustration. "Around most people, I am."
"And I'm not most people." Pushing her point home, she traced a finger across his broad, sinewy shoulders and used the softest hint of pressure to nudge him out of her way so she could march across the grass to say goodbye to her best friends. "You should remember that."
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The Internet might not have actually created more information -- in fact, it's easy to argue the opposite: that it's created massive amounts of misinformation -- but it certainly has made lots of information more swiftly and easily accessible to vastly more people than any single previous advance in human history. Of course, that information is still surrounded by the oceans of Internet misinformation, lies, half-truths, biased reporting, and (above all else) unsupported, ignorant opinion. But, as every problem is also an opportunity -- which may or may not be illustrated by a trite story about Chinese characters -- plenty of people have spent lots of time and effort to unearth what they consider to be good and reliable information, stick it up on the Internet, and see what happens next.
This year, it's Wikileaks. But five or six years ago, the reigning star of the "stuff various people really wish you didn't know about" was The Smoking Gun, a site that (then and now) specialized in posting real documents, with minimal commentary. TSG's two big foci were (and are) celebrity and crime, with a special emphasis on things that fall into both categories simultaneously. So they posted a lot of contracts and riders from various famous people (including the well-known Van Halen demand for brown-M&M-free dressing rooms), a lot of mug shots, and lots and lots of police reports and court documents (affidavits, motions, etc.)
And, since book publishing is always ready to do the same thing as other media -- only a year later and in a more permanent form -- TSG begat The Dog Dialed 911 back in 2006, two or three hundred Internet memes ago. It's exactly what you'd expect from a TSG book -- a collection of documents, nearly all of them embarrassing if not scandalous for the people named in them. It's got pictures of counterfeit money (with George W. Bush's face on it), details of Rush Limbaugh's drug addiction, plenty of mug shots (of the famous and non-), and lots of other things about criminal and antisocial behavior, particularly those involving sex and drugs.
It's entertaining in a voyeuristic way -- not that I'm in any position to judge, since I bought the thing (admittedly, as a cheap remainder several years later) and read it. At this point, though, some of the scandals (the aforementioned Mr. Limbaugh, Kobe Bryant's rape trial, Bill O'Reilly's sexual harassment suit) are old and mostly forgotten, which lowers the titillation factor. And TSG does have a focus on the seamier side of life that becomes unpleasant in large doses -- I'd only recommend reading this book as I did, a page or two at a time over the course of several months. This is fun to dabble in, but a steady diet of it would ruin anyone.
Book-A-Day 2010: The Epic Index
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Book-A-Day 2010 # 218 (9/9) -- The Dog Dialed 911 by the editors of The Smoking Gun
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Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Generating Device
Innovative technology for the treatment of inflammatory conditions (pain), overload pathologies (tendinopathies), delayed healings (wounds), delayed bone consolidations (fractures).
EQ-PEMF uses the electrical signal physics for therapeutic purposes.
Developed for the equine veterinary sector.
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At TFM Fireplaces we are also supplying our customers with the latest building materials and components. Hot air ventilators pump hot air to distant outlets, the bypass filters the hot air and stabilises the temperature in the system. Hot air distribution sets are the key elements of every air heating system based on a fireplace.
Elements of hot air distribution installation
Fireplace installation, even in its most complex variants, consists of three independent systems:
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6 Tasting Notes
The Vanilla and Jasmine are very forward in the flavour profile of this tea. It smells lovely, very citrusy. The taste is smooth and very pleasant as well.
Make sure to use plenty of tea, otherwise it can be slightly insipid. It can stand up to oversteeping without going bitter – which is helpful for absentminded tea brewers like me.
Exactly what you'd expect from an Earl Grey. It's got a but of an unusual…. smokiness? That's not expected. The bergamont is not as strong as some Earl Grey's I've had. I'd chose this any day over Twinings, but I prefer Mighty Leaf's version.
At first glance a pretty standard Earl Grey, but the lovely aftertaste and aroma of Jasmine sets it apart. It's very bergamonty, meaning it's somewhat on the bitter side, but I happen to really enjoy that. A touch of sweetness offsets the bitter and rounds out the flavour of this tea. This is my go-to earl grey.
This is a classic English Breakfast-type tea. Pretty standard flavour profile, but with the robust boldness you only get with whole leaf teas. If you're trying to introduce someone to high quality black teas, this is one to start with.
Don't oversteep (4 min tops) or it goes quite bitter. If you want it stronger, use more tea.
Very disappointing. The Acai Black tea is fantastic, I thought this would be a comparable but decaf tea. How wrong I was. It has none of the nice fruity bouquet of the caffeinated version, and has an unpleasant bitterness to it, yet manages to be somewhat flavourless. All in all not a good tea. Stick to the caffeinated version.


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A Rosh Hashonah Story by Yente Serdatzky
ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week we are celebrating Rosh Hashonah, the Jewish New Year, with a Rosh Hashonah story. It's called "Rosh Hashonah", and was written by Yente Serdatzky. She was a Yiddish writer, who exemplifies the enormous difficulties experienced by Yiddish women writers in achieving recognition. Serdatzky was born in Lithuania in 1877. In 1905, she left her husband and three children and went to Warsaw to pursue a literary career. Her first story, "Mirl," was published there in 1905. She emigrated to the United States in 1907 and wrote stories and plays which were published in many Yiddish periodicals. She died in 1962 at the age of 85.
Serdatsky's fiction and dramatic works focus mainly on women like herself, immigrants who came to America from European, mainly Russian, left-wing political movements, seeking to build an ideal society, together with like-minded male comrades. Instead, they face alienation and loneliness in a society that has little place for radical intellectual women. Serdatsky's leading characters who are involved in liaisons are inevitably exploited by lovers and husbands. Nevertheless, her narratives abound in lonely women searching for love and faith. This story is taken from the anthology Beautiful as the Moon, Radiant as the Stars. Jewish Women in Yiddish Stories, edited by Sandra Bark and published by Warner Books in 2003.
Shanah Tovah, a sweet and happy New Year, to all of you from all of us here at Radio Sefarad.


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03 July 2012
Bento Series BreakTime #2: Cafeteria food
sauce (294 yen). The pickle sauce was actually quite nice. The dish came with
french fries and an okra and radish garnish. Ate it with the usual
suspects: M-size gohan (rice), annin doufu (almond jelly, 84 yen), and hot tea (free, drink-all-you-can).
Oh, and have I mentioned? I asked a Japanese colleague if annin doufu is a traditional Japanese food, and he said it's Chinese. I then asked my Chinese colleagues about it and they said it's Japanese. I think it's Chinese in origin, and maybe this one is now a Japanized version. So I think they're all correct, one way or another.
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Well, what goes around, comes around. If you don't want to be a team player and help out your friend, then he or she may not be apt to help you out. The next time you want to approach that cute "target" on the other side of the bar, that just happens to be standing next to a large, not so attractive individual, you might be out of luck. Our recommendation is to help out your wingwoman or wingman.
The Love Kudos also feel that with sex, one must respect personal limits, but sometimes couples should consider "taking one for the team."
If two people are not on the same schedule in terms of sexual desire, shouldn't they discuss a compromise? In all relationships, there should be an element of compromise and the bedroom should be included.
Lauren adds, "If you and your partner are always on different wavelengths in terms of sexual desire, then perhaps there is a brewing problem in your relationship that stems from somewhere outside the bedroom. I am not Dr. Laura, but I do know that most successful relationships engage in sexual contact at least a couple times a week. If there is a great difference in the sex drive amongst you and your partner, there will end up being greater problems down the line. If you are a sexual being, find a partner that is too, or you might end up satisfying your own sexual urges or straying from the relationship. Communication is key."
This is a true story from a married woman, "I'd like to ask your advice about sex. My husband and I have very different sex drives. For him, everyday would be great, and twice a day would be greater. For me, once a week, but to accommodate him, I'd have sex twice a week. I don't think I'm abnormal, but he asks, "What's wrong with you?" I say it's normal for a couple to have sex once or twice a week. He says he doesn't care about 'normal', it's not enough for him. He has a point, but everyday and even every other day is too much for me. We've been married almost 20 years and have both built up a lot of resentment towards each other. He, because of the sex, and me, for a whole lot of other marital problems. I never did have a high sex drive, even before we were married. Neither of us knows how to solve this problem, but it's a big one."
How do you think they should resolve their sexual discord? Personally, we think they need to go to a therapist to talk about why their relationship is not functional outside of the bedroom. Perhaps, the Mrs. will want to put out more if she feels more appreciated in the relationship and not just a pawn in his sexual escapades.
Lindsay K. adds, "If you do take one for the team and end up talking to that less attractive person, then you might be presently surprised. The person who doesn't have their looks to fall back on, probably will have a more interesting and clever personality. You never know, they could be a new friend!"
Now, many of you know the term, "c..k blocking," but have you ever heard of the concept "booby blocking"? Stay tuned to find out.
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We are delighted to announce that we will again be hosting our Crime & Punishment seminar on February 21 2019. We have three fantastic speaker. David Tadd, one of the country's top forensic experts, Criminal defence barrister, author and TV presenter Harry Potter and Ian Puddick, who found himself at the centre of a multi-million pound police operation after his wife had an affair with her well connected boss. All will be discussing their unique insights and tales from inside the criminal justice system. Buy Your Tickets Here
Court 1 at 10am Mention in the case of Agnes Taylor, the former wife of the ex Liberian president Charles Taylor, accused of torture during her country's civil war.
Court 2 at 2pm Plea and trial preparation in the case of Natasha Welsh, who allegedly stabbed to death her IT executive husband, Martin,47, at their £600,000 Hendon, North London home
Court 3 at 9.45am Mention in the case of Lekan Akinsoji and three others. The case concerns a gun battle with armed police in Forest Gate, East London.
Court 7 at 10.30am trial continues of a 14 year old youth and Adesina Fashina and Christian Murphy, both 18, accused of murder. Drugs dealer Mark Fontaine, 41, was lured into an ambush and stabbed to death. The court heard he had refused to hand back a phone dropped by one of his alleged killers during a failed mugging days earlier
Court 8 at 10am trial continues of pilot Andrew Hill accused of the manslaughter of 11 men who died when his jet plane crashed onto a road during the Shoreham Air Show in 2015
Court 9 at 10am trial of Abdiraham Abdullahi accused of murder. Ali Al Har, 25, was stabbed to death in Tufnell Park on 18 September 2018
Court 10 at 10.30am Plera and trial preparation in the case of Gerald Matovu, who is accused of poisoning to death business executive Eric Michels,52, who was found dead at it Chessington London home. The victim, who was a part-time actor made brief appearances in the Bond film Skyfall and the Tom Cruise movie Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. He died from a lethal dose of the drug GBH
Court 11 at 10am trial of Obina Ezeoke, 25, who denies murdering Annie Ekofo, 53, and her nephew Bervil in their apartment in East Finchley, North London in September 2016. The pair were shot dead in a case of mistaken identity.
Court 12 at 10am trial continues six family members accused of the manslaughter of 26 year old marketing consultant, who was also a member of the family. The victim died of a heart attack after allegedly being restrained during an exorcism at the family home in Barnet, North London. It was believed the victim was possessed by a "snake demon"
Court 13 at 10am trial continues of Adrian Hoare and her partner, who haven been charged in connection with the death of three year old Alfie Lamb. The toddler was deliberately crushed to death with an electric car seat because he was making too much noise, the court heard.
Court 14 at 10am trial of Ken Umezie accused of murdering drill music rapper Sidique Kamara,23, who was stabbed to death with a lock knife in Camberwell, London SE.
Court 15 at 10am Sentence of Salim Wakil, who was convicted of funding terrorism, by sending his sister £2,500 after she joined the Islamic State in Syria. He claimed the money was to help her return to the UK.


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A turf feud has rocked a Brooklyn neighborhood just days before Christmas. It began on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights, where two Christmas-tree sellers set up shop a mere two blocks apart, reports the Brooklyn Paper. Adam Parke, a Christmas-tree vendor who's been posted in Brooklyn Heights for more than a quarter century, accused a relative newcomer, Ellie Bishop of Romp Family Christmas Trees, of pushing her way onto his territory and of smearing the quality of his wares. "They've been telling people that our trees have rodents in them," Parke told the Brooklyn Paper.
Pizza rat is one thing; Christmas-tree rat is another thing entirely, so Parke — who grows "the best organic, chemical free Christmas trees in the Northeast" — confronted Bishop one night last week on the street, demanding she stop spreading rumors about his product. A bunch of holiday shoppers witnessed the confrontation.
Bishop — who took over the business from her mom and gets her trees from North Carolina — denied that she bashed his Christmas trees. Since then, the two vendors have reached, in the spirit of both Christmas and capitalism, something of a detente.
The Christmas-tree debacle isn't the only holiday disaster that's befallen the city. The new, more responsible SantaCon only yielded five arrests and 100 summonses this year, but at least one rogue Santa is facing felony burglary charges. On the night of SantaCon, a man in a Santa suit tried to enter a West Village apartment, threatening the resident by saying he had a gun and telling him, "I'll kill you," say police. It's not clear if this Santa was a participant in SantaCon, or merely thought it'd be a pretty great disguise to dress up like a guy who always gets away with breaking and entering. The Santa ended up ransacking the apartment and fleeing to the building roof, where cops found him. He did not have a gun, or, apparently, a sleigh and eight reindeer to stage his getaway.


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Game 1 of this series was all about Magnitka's goal-greedy first line; Game 2 was all about the team's strength in depth. Just one day after Sergei Mozyakin orchestrated a 3-1 win for his team Admiral stepped up its defense around the danger-man and limited his line to a single goal. But if Mozyakin and Jan Kovar managed just one point each, assisting Chris Lee's power play goal to complete the scoring early in the third, the rest of Magnitogorsk's attack was ready to take up the slack.
Viktor Antipin opened the scoring in the third minute, only for Niclas Bergfors to tie it up at the start of the second. Admiral had the edge in terms of shot on goal, but it was Magnitka which proved more clinical: Yaroslav Kosov and Tim Brent found the net within 11 seconds of each other to stretch the lead to 3-1 and the visitor never quite recovered.
Play-off hockey makes its first ever trip to Vladivostok on Tuesday, and with a 0-2 deficit to make up Admiral will need to wring every last drop out of its home advantage if it is to get back into contention.
For the second game running Barys needed overtime to shake off Avtomobilist. Mike Lundin got the all-important goal, breaking a 4-4 tie as he forced home the rebound from a Cam Barker shot in the 78th minute.
But for the second game running Avto showed enough to suggest that the series is far from a foregone conclusion, even if Barys now holds a 2-0 lead. Fyodor Malykhin, who orchestrated a turnaround which put the visitors up 3-2 in the second period, demonstrated once again why he's been a threat all season, while the defense did a good job of closing out the effective Bochenski-Dawes-Boyd troika for much of the game. That line has just one goal in the series so far.
However, Barys has found an alternative source of goals in this series: Roman Starchenko found the net twice to add to his double in game one, and that ultimately tipped the balance in Barys' favour.
Mikhail Varnakov's last gasp goal for Ak Bars proved to be a turning point in Game 2 – and could yet be the key moment of the series against Sibir. Varnakov got his second marker of this year's play-off, roofing the puck from the slot off a Tim Stapleton pass and tying the game at 2-2 with just 58 seconds left to play.
It completed a recovery from 0-2 in the game and in overtime Alexander Osipov denied Sibir a 2-0 lead in the series. He got his second of the night in the 68th minute, putting away the rebound from Janne Pesonen's shot to give the Kazan team a vital victory.
Early the outsider had threatened a second successive surprise. Dmitry Monya caught everyone by surprise when he opened the scoring after just 15 seconds and Dmitry Kugryshev doubled that advantage in the last minute of the middle session. But Osipov reduced the deficit before Varnakov's late intervention.
Krystofer Kolanos, who only arrived in Russia during the Olympic break, got the vital goal for Torpedo in a narrow win in Ufa. The Canadian, whose most recent action came in the AHL with Abbotsford Heat, settled Game 2 of this series in the 25th minute, collecting Denis Parshin's pass and beating Andrei Vasilevsky at the second attempt.
That was enough to take to Topedo to a 2-0 lead in the series, but the win owed just as much to goalie Ivan Kasutin. He had 34 saves for his shut-out in a game where Salavat Yulaev out-shot its opponent 34-18 but could not find a way to tie the scores. After attracting criticism for a sluggish performance in yesterday's defeat Salavat produced a far more aggressive display in a hard-fought game – which saw 37 hits in total – and occasionally threatened to bubble over into outright violence in the minutes immediately after the goal. At play-off time, no team can afford to step back from a physical battle and in this instance neither team did.
Torpedo, despite being seen as the outsider before the series got underway, now holds a commanding advantage as the action moves to Nizhny Novgorod on Tuesday.


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Boom Boom's Guide to Word Verifications!
Perfect for the upcoming holiday season... a manger scene featuring Star Trek characters.
(But don't set yours out before Thanksgiving if you want to remain friends with Suldog.)
A droid who likes toga parties.
The Coen brother you like best.
What you have to do when either your wife or wi fi isn't working properly.
Bacchanalian goddesses.
(My kind of people.)
and my favorite...
Do I really have to explain this one?
So there you have it... real word verifications that I've collected over the past few weeks. If you can't beat 'em.... enjoy 'em! Just don't be a doohole!


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Carney 48%-Sherwood 39%
The new Keystone Poll in the 10th CD has more good news for Chris Carney. After all the negative ads and false charges from the Republicans he maintains his lead over our joke of a congressman Don Sherwood. A visit from Bush may have brought in more cash but hasn't helped the Tunkhannock Strangler. Bush only gets a 36% approval rating in the district and an incredibly low 35% say Sherwood deserves reelection. The only solid backing is from self described Christian Fundamentalist who back him 55%-33%. I guess they never read the 10 Commandments.
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Europe based Nigerian rapper, T.S Itopa is out with a music video for his newest song titled 'Unrestrained' featuring Johnny K. Palmer.
'Unrestrained' is a song about freedom, being free from backwardness, and gaining the power to pick yourself up, through the blood of Jesus, anytime you fall. In the song you can hear him thanking God for his faithfulness and goodness over the years.
T.S Itopa was born and raised in Gboko, Benue State, he is originally from Kogi state, he knows his calling is in music, and with this platform he joins and is a part of the spreading of the good news.
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It's not a secret: Just a quick stroll through your city will allow a couple of cameras to catch your face. That ATM, that traffic light, that grocery store entrance — video-surveillance happens everywhere. But is that reality enough to make you happily use an app which scans your face in exchange for discount codes?
Anna Brading of Sopho's security blog isn't so sure that it should be. "[This arrangement] worries me," she writes. "How securely will the data be stored? Can [a company] sell on the data they've collected? What if the data gets stolen?"
Brading's got her mind on Facedeals, a camera system which could one day make its way into your favorite haunts. This system scans your face as you enter a premises, checks you into the location on Facebook, and sends you a text message with a discount code (which is specifically tailored to you based on what you like on Facebook).
These things won't happen unless you've installed and authorized the corresponding Facedeals app, mind you. The Facedeals app learns how you look based on your tagged Facebook photos and uses that information to identify you whenever you enter a location with a Facedeals camera system.
Now, whether you're excited to see Facedeals in your local stores or already planning to avoid any location with such a system, you can relax for a while.
According to the folks of Redpepper, the advertising agency behind the whole setup, they're still "finalizing testing and seeking funding for Facedeals." No word as to how the agency would deal with the wrath of Facebook, which might not be all that happy about the Facedeals name or logo.
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Think simple lines and warm finishes at the bathroom sink. Or hard-working kitchen faucets with boosted spray power. Or "smart" shower tech that allows you to adjust water temperature remotely.
Here's what is trending and how to find the kitchen and bath faucetry that best fits your lifestyle.
Design. Simplicity is the word of the day.
"We see what we call 'warm minimalism' being the next emerging trend with a move toward simpler designs — clean aesthetic shapes that integrate natural materials and warm metal finish accents," said Jean-Jacques L'Henaff, vice president of design for LIXIL Americas, which operates American Standard, a long-time leader in the kitchen and bath industry.
The company's new Studio S bathroom faucet collection, for instance, emphasizes simplicity in its organic design lines, he said.
Finish. Homeowners are making design statements in kitchens and bathrooms by using darker finishes such a matte black which creates drama and contrast, said Danielle Radic, an associate product manager for Moen, which touts itself as the "No. 1 faucet brand in North America". Radic said the company's Align suite offers a contemporary look and fresh design concept that works with many décor choices. "It's often said the faucet is the jewelry of the sink and matte black creates a modern focal point," she said.
Handles. The once-popular two-handle or pull-out style faucets are being replaced with pull-down models in classic designs, L'Henaff said. These faucets are sleekly styled and offer increased functionality with spray options and pause features, he said
Convenience. Look for features that make your job in the kitchen easier. A touchless faucet, for instance, quickly activates the fl ow of water. "It not only keeps the faucet cleaner but minimizes the spread of germs since you don't have to touch the faucet," said Tom Tylicki, a senior product manager for Moen. The company's "power boost" tech can also ease the load in the kitchen, he said. A boosted stream can fill pots and pitchers faster while a powerful spray can cut clean-up time.
Connectivity. Moen has launches the first Wi-Fi/cloud based digital shower on the market, said Michael Poloha, a senior product manager for the company.
The U by Moen shower allows users to precisely set shower temperature and other preferences using either an in-shower digital controller or a smartphone, he said.
Lifestyle. Consider the ages and mobility levels of family members when selecting faucets, L'Henaff said. Look for models that are built to last to help avoid repair and replacement, he said. Think about all-metal construction and washer-less ceramic disc valves to reduce maintenance in the future. Consider water-saving faucets for a "greener" home and reduced water and energy bills. American Standard and DXV offer high-efficiency 1.2 gallons per minute (gpm) flow models.
Take your pick. Ready to dive in? Ask your builder about the best kitchen and bathroom faucet options to meet your needs.


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Our Sunday morning services have a welcoming, family feel. We start at 10:30am and services will typically be about 80-90 minutes long.
Children are important to us at Hillview Community Church as we seek to follow Jesus' example and lead people of all ages to him.
ASCEND is the Youth Programme of Hillview Community Church. We are a group of young people passionate about our faith in Jesus, seeking to learn more about him and to live lives which serve and honour him.
Throughout the year there are opportunities for the women in the church to gather together for bible studies, social events and a chance to get to know each other better.
Throughout the year there are opportunities for the men in the church to gather together for bible studies, social events and a chance to get to know each other better.
Small Groups
Small groups are important to us at Hillview. We see them as a fundamental part of how we should be connected as a church, there is much more to 'being church' than getting together each Sunday.
Throughout the year we offer opportunities to attend courses such as Alpha, Marriage Course, Equip etc. A chance to share a meal and look at the bible and a range of topics.
As part of the worldwide church of God, Hillview Community Church has a local focus but a global vision. We want our congregation to be involved and gain first hand experience in global missions.
Church Planting
Church planting is something we want to be involved in both directly locally but also further afield. Many of the missionaries that we support have direct links with Church Planting.
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Q: How safe are the barcode scanners that our food passes through on the supermarket checkout stand? I have heard that the radiation from these machines may be dangerous.- LB, Aberdeen
A: Concern over the safety of barcode scanners is a natural offshoot of concern over food irradiation. When food is irradiated to kill bacteria, it is exposed to ionising radiation in the form of gamma rays from nuclear material, X-rays or high-speed electrons from electronic guns.
The dose of radiation varies according to the type of food, but even fruits and vegetables – which receive the least radiation – are hit by the equivalent of millions of chest X-rays. There is evidence that irradiated foods lose their vitamin content and, while irradiation can kill up to 95 per cent of bad bacteria, it can also kill any good bacteria present in foods.
Laser devices are usually non-ionising and span the energy spectrum from infrared to ultraviolet. Barcode scanners, which have very low emissions, are 'class 2A' laser devices. Although they emit some radiation, barcode scanners are generally considered to be a very low risk to food.
One factor common to all potential types of radiation poisoning is the duration of exposure. But, as food at the checkout is quickly passed by the scanner, it is unlikely to receive much radiation. It's worth asking, though, what long-term risks there may be for the cashier who sits next to a scanner (and other electronic equipment) for hours at a time every day.
Having said all this, the safety of barcode scanners is mostly theoretical. There has never been any study of their effect on food, so it is impossible to say with any authority whether all, some or no scanners are dangerous.
People who use homoeopathic and other energy medicine have concerns about barcode scanners as it may only take a small amount of radiation to lower, or antidote, a remedy. Again, however, this is theoretical and has never been tested.
The best we can say at this time is that barcodes are probably just a small part of the whole spectrum of radiation (including irradiation) that we and our foods are exposed to today.
If you still feel uncertain about this issue, there are few options. You can buy your produce from local suppliers, farms and shops who don't use lasers to keep track of stock and prices. Also, smaller grocery and healthfood shops may be willing to ring up certain items such as energy medicines independently of the scanner if you ask – a courtesy you are unlikely to find in larger supermarkets.