Investing In Start Ups Sight Un Seen > It Works for Social Capital

Social Capital has started investing in startups, sight unseen

Posted 5 minutes ago by Connie Loizos

"There’s little question that former Facebook executive and venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya thoroughly enjoys challenging the way that startups are funded. Because he has the hot hand, so to speak, he’s able to get away with it, too.
Last month, for example, Palihapitiya’s firm, Social Capital, took the unusual step of raising $600 million in an IPO for a SPAC called Social Capital Hedosophia. The shell company will use the money to acquire all or part of a privately held tech company, thereby taking it public and circumventing what Palihapitiya sees as the unnecessarily long, expensive and distracting process of going public.

Now, Social Capital has another trick up its sleeve. It’s beginning to invest in far-flung startups, sight unseen."

QUESTION: Is Social Capital innovating its way into trouble?
https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/25
Social Capital manages $1.8 billion worth of assets and has reportedly deployed two-thirds of its third, $600 million, early-stage fund, which it closed in 2015.
How it works: entrepreneurs from anywhere in the world can fill out a questionnaire, then submit revenue figures and either raw engagement or transaction logs (or both) to Social Capital, including sometimes by granting the firm direct access to the cloud services they use.  It’s entirely self-serve. If Social Capital likes what it’s sees, it will write a check of up to $250,000. If it doesn’t, it will at least deliver feedback to the startup regarding tweaks it might make to its business model. (Entrepreneurs interested in applying can let the firm know here.)

How can Social Capital possibly know how to improve a company’s business model when it hasn’t even met its founders?



READ MORE > https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/25

This Is "An Activist Judge" Twice-Removed From The Bench

Roy Moore

One of the newest in the cast of characters who's been dis-robed two times as the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and given a new identity - and a costume change - for his first public début on the American political stage joining the new Greatest Show-on-Earth Political Circus of All-Time where Trump is the Circus Master for all the elephants in-the-room of the Grand Old Party GOP that's pooping-out big loads of pure shit from the shotgun attack dog mind of Steve Bannon, The Top Dog of Alt-Right Media.

Bannon couldn't get muzzled during the short stint and stunts in The White House trying to compete as the Prez's mouthpiece. Bannon is back at Breitbart, turned loose to lead the pack of attack dogs on the establishment Repub elephants who can't get whipped, punished or beaten to perform. They can, however, choose to leave "The Big Tent" with fear when hot air and hot-head candidates heat up the political climate where they can't win or hold onto their elected seats. That leaves empty seats waiting to be filled by new characters.

As we all know there's there's "no romance-without-finance". Politics is the game of finance over principles and integrity, more beholden to special interests than the public. Yesterday we found out how re-invented judge Ron Moore garbed as gun-toting upholder of the law, holds up instead a hand-gun with Old Glory as his backdrop.

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Moore forms fundraising pact with national GOP
The anti-establishment Alabama Republican will raise money with the RNC and NRSC.

By GABRIEL DEBENEDETTI 10/24/2017 03:52 PM EDT

Blogger Note...and Who will they get it from?
The Koch Brothers, The Mercers,

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"Roy Moore has campaigned as Mr. Anti-Establishment. Now, he and the establishment are starting to link up.
The Alabama Republican’s Senate campaign on Tuesday signed a joint fundraising agreement with the Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee and the Alabama Republican Party, according to a filing with the Federal Election Commission.
Moore, who was twice ousted as chief justice of the Alabama state Supreme Court, has largely based his Senate run around his promise to make life difficult for Washington’s entrenched class, including his own party’s leadership. . .
Link > http://www.politico.com

How much fun is this upcoming show?

 ...It's coming to your town and your state soon! 

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Ballotpedia Polling Update [30 October 2017]

U.S. Senate, Alabama

Roy Moore (R)	51%
Doug Jones (D)	40%
Undecided/Other	9%
Source: Raycom News Network/Strategy Research (Oct. 16), Margin of error: +/-~2.5, Sample size: 3,000

 

Yeah Baby! Let's Do The Twist

Tribute to Chubby Checkers:
Who can rest-in-peace after watching this? GET UP + MOVE
Grammy Hall of Fame

Published on Sep 28, 2011

Views: 1,988,433

Chubby Checker (born Ernest Evans; October 3, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. He also popularized the dance style Twist, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard's R&B hit "The Twist". In September 2008, "The Twist" topped Billboard's list of the most popular singles to have appeared in the Hot 100 since its debut in 1958
Checker privately recorded a novelty single for Clark in which the singer portrayed a school teacher with an unruly classroom of musical performers. The premise allowed Checker to imitate such acts as Fats Domino, Frankie Avalon and The Chipmunks, each singing "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Clark sent the song out as his Christmas greeting, and it received such good response that Cameo-Parkway signed Checker to a recording contract. Titled "The Class", the single became Checker's first release, charting at #38 in the spring of 1959.
Checker introduced his version of "The Twist" in July 1960 on The Clay Cole Show, a local New York City television program broadcast live from Palisades Amusement Park. "The Twist" went on to become the only single to top the Billboard Hot 100 twice, in two separate chart runs. (Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" had done so on Billboard's earlier chart.)

"The Twist" had previously peaked at #16 on the Billboard rhythm and blues chart, in the 1959 version recorded by its author, Hank Ballard, whose band The Midnighters first performed the dance on stage. Checker's "Twist", however, was a nationwide smash. The song was so ubiquitous that Checker felt that his critics thought that he could only succeed with dance records typecasting him as a dance artist. Checker later lamented:
"...in a way, "The Twist" really ruined my life. I was on my way to becoming a big nightclub performer, and "The Twist" just wiped it out.. It got so out of proportion. No one ever believes I have talent."
—Chubby Checker

Trickle-Down Toxic Masculinity? State Houses + City Halls

Your MesaZona blogger usually is reluctant to "dig into the dirt" except in outdoor foliage plant pot culture home-horticulture on the balcony - and usually does not get into "mud-slinging" or hanging out "the dirty laundry" about rumors and gossip and innuendoes - but there's a big mainstream tsunami wave that's been flooding over a reservoir of restrained reserve not "to go there".
Women are speaking up taking courage from each other, oftentimes represented by female attorneys who bring the accusations public, rather than staying silent

Here in Mesa a recent post on this blog went there with rumors about Steven Wright in the City of Mesa newsroom that have at this point-in-time neither been confirmed nor denied - it's the typical first drip in the trickle of allegations or accusations of sexual harassment that it's best treated by getting ignored until another "trickle" drops about a certain [and un-named and un-published here] person inside City Hall who might have left his 15-year job working for a local utilities company under a cloud of sexual harassment.
Let's leave that there to get back to here-and-now: represented by high-power and highly-paid attorneys, women are emerging decades-later-after-the-fact either from the shadows or high-visibility media/entertainment positions to make accusations and bring charges again the men who harassed and exploited on the job for what they had to do "to get ahead" in "career advancement". . . they've collected million$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ in settlements or their affairs with undisclosed indiscretions when brought public have toppled even top 5-star generals like David Petraeus who revealed classified information to his mistress and biographer Paula Broadwell.

It's all quite crazy with a last name like that, getting more to the point with a dude named Anthony Wiener or even when the President of The United States brags about "pussy snatching" just weeks after marrying his third wife after two divorces.
And now the Hollywood scandals - this time it's more than entertainment
It's serious stuff that's gone on ignored or un-spoken about for generations, not only in civilian life but in the military from top-to-bottom.
On another front we've gone from "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" when dealing with homosexuality to
JUST TELL EVERYTHING
. . . it's out there, folks!

It's not just "a little thing" anymore when so many people from so many fields speak up about either discrimination or sexual harassment on-the-job:
entertainment and the media, government employess, education, police and fire departments, Wall Street finance, banking, sports and athletics, and those in public office who violate both the public trust and ethics. 

The Battle of Beauty & The Beast?

The #MeToo beast is waking and it's coming for the men behind it

The social media movement shouldn't just be about women who have been sexually assaulted - men need to own up                              

By Nikita Ramkissoon |Updated on 25 October 2017  12:01

Source: Blasting News

#Women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted have been writing two simple words on their #Social media accounts since last Sunday: “Me too.” While seemingly innocuous, those two words have made the Internet a triggering place. Not just for victims and survivors of assault, but anyone who has had to endure the pain caused by it.
It began with actress Alyssa Milano taking to Twitter, saying: “If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote ‘Me too’ as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem. . .
Some women aren't even sure that their experience counts as sexual assault or not because it's become all too normalised. The hashtag became a quiet roar of the beast that lies beneath our everyday mundane existence.
But the issue here should not just be about women who have experienced sexual assault; it needs to extend to men who have been part of the problem. For every "me too", there is obviously a man - or several #men - behind it, having done the assaulting. But all we hear are crickets. It’s almost as if they don’t want to admit that they’re part of the problem.
Many are of the belief that men should play no part in the dialogue about women's rights as it diverts the conversation from the plight of women to be about men.

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However, in this case, it's not so straightforward. Men are the main cause of this entire movement, and it's impossible to have these conversations without men owning up for their actions - or even inactions - surrounding sexual assault.

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Weinstein fallout: Statehouses say #MeToo

"The response to sexual harassment allegations against film producer Harvey Weinstein has spread to statehouses nationwide, with hundreds of lawmakers, lobbyists and consultants coming forward to say the problem is pervasive in the halls of political power," AP's Sophia Tareen reports from Chicago: Why it matters: "Several risk factors for sexual harassment identified by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission are deep-seated at state capitols: Lack of diversity, power disparities, tolerating or encouraging alcohol consumption, and many young staffers." "Illinois became the latest to join the chorus, as signatures piled up [yesterday] on an open letter describing harassment and intimidation for women trying to negotiate legislation and work on campaigns." "In California this week, the Senate hired a law firm to investigate after women described a culture of sexual intimidation." "Lawmakers in Oregon and Rhode Island have spoken up to accuse male colleagues of inappropriate touching or suggesting that sexual favors be a condition for advancing bills." What's next: "More women are coming forward with stories, some are naming names and states are making fresh promises of investigations and of legislation."  See >>>  : axios.com _____________________________________________________ Toxic Masculinity - MGTOW [transcript] Published on Nov 22, 2014 Widespread systematic oppression of women appears worse to modern society as Hollywood and literary writers continuously propagandize and re-imagine how life was like in the past. . . . In my previous video, I explained how the MGTOW philosophy rose in tandem with Feminism’s rise in the Western World. After second wave feminism solidified itself as an academic discipline, research and debate concerning the traditional family structure all but ceased to investigate a more agenda driven gynocentrist narrative. The current power structure was incorrect, and revisionist feminist academics began their campaign to re-contextualize historical events through a feminist lens. New fields of research emerged to fill in the gaps of knowledge regarding this “groundbreaking” discipline. Few had ever researched the role of women in society beyond simple characterizations, largely because women did not contribute to society in the same manner as men. Re-contextualizing history through a feminist lens naturally induces biases in how daily life actually worked. Widespread systematic oppression of women appears worse to modern society as Hollywood and literary writers continuously propagandize and re-imagine how life was like in the past. Before second wave feminism, men in media were seen as more traditionally masculine role models that young boys could emulate. Now, turn on the television and you’re bound to witness men play a subservient role to women, and watch few if any men act traditionally masculine. The term “toxic masculinity” refers to male behaviors which damage the gynocentric imperative. These behaviors these include using logic over emotional reasoning, mental independence, courageousness and assertiveness. Essentially, for the gynocentrist agenda to push forward, society must become more feminized, as feminine behavior stems from empathy and sensitivity to one’s feelings, which are personality traits more easily manipulable by powerful governments and agenda pushers. Modern western society currently thrives on emotional facts while conveniently ignoring the difficult truths of our actions. This irrationality has fueled the current trend of social justice and female supremacy to rise without any check or application of common sense. Now more than ever, how you phrase something matters more than what you actually say, which can ironically help governments and gynocentrists achieve their goals faster as they stand to benefit the most from sugarcoating obvious admissions of fact and outright lies. I find it amusing both entities wish to label masculinity as toxic and femininity as desirable when all civilizations have advanced fastest on the back of reason and the scientific method than any emotional ideology or purely theoretical construct.

Meeting To Amend Proposed Changes to Arizona Emissions Bank Rules

 

Air Quality Division
Stakeholder Meeting
Proposed Changes to Arizona Emissions Bank Rules

ADEQ invites you to attend the first stakeholder meeting for the development of state rules for Arizona's voluntary emissions bank. ADEQ seeks your input and ideas in amending the Arizona Administrative Code, Title 18, Chapter 2, Article 12. 
Earlier this year, the legislature amended the existing emissions bank statute (A.R.S. Section 49-410 or HB2152) to allow for new types of emissions reductions credits to be deposited in the bank. The amendments directed ADEQ to adopt rules implementing these changes. The rules will help promote Arizona as a more attractive option for companies seeking to locate or expand industrial operations while still maintaining healthy air quality. 
When: Friday, Nov. 3, 2017, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.Where: ADEQ, 1110 W. Washington St., Phoenix, Room 3175 Parking>
Follow along with the presentation:
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Mesa Convention Center To Host AZ Library Conference

2017 AzLA Annual Conference

Oct 25 - Oct 27 2017

Mesa Convention Center

https://www.facebook.com/arizonalibraryassociation/
The 2017 AzLA Annual Conference is aimed at transformation from within. Staff are the foundation upon which our libraries are built. Investing in the development of staff strengths and skills in an effort to boost their confidence and productivity is key to igniting the transformations our libraries are so keen to make in the 21^st century. Turning meaningful conversations with community members into new programs and experiences that meet their needs begins with a helpful library worker receiving the needed support to try new things and take risks to accomplish goals. This conference is about empowering yourselves and your staff to be the change-makers in our communities as we work together to transform our libraries.
You can now access the #AzLA2017 Conference Book and printable schedule online!
Program Book: https://goo.gl/oJriv9
Schedule: https://goo.gl/BChmuF

At this years AzLA Conference we are offering three library tours.
Sign up today, space is limited!
WEDNESDAY: Mesa Main Library.
FRIDAY: Polly Rosenbaum Archives & History & Thinkspot, Red Mountain Branch
http://2017.azla.org/tours/See More

Mark your calendars!
The 2017 AzLA Annual Conference Happy Hour is this Wednesday, October 25th from 5:25-7:00pm at Desert Eagle Brewing.

The are located at 150 West Main Street in Mesa.http://www.deserteaglebrewing.com/

 

Free Virtual Conference: Explore emerging technologies, service models, innovative programming, new ways of sparking learning and active engagement while building access and assuring inclusion. Four high content learning tracks for and from libraries of all types—school, academic, and public—will be offered in key areas. Register at https://goo.gl/GbZV2Q

 

Unwind after Day 1 of #AzLA2017 at our evening reception!
Sponsored by The University of Arizona School of Information, with music by local "geek-folk" band, Open Beta.
RSVP for the conference here: 2017 AzLA Annual Conference
Learn more: 2017.azla.org

 

 

 

We look forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones!
#AzLA2017 #LibrariesTransform

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Apply Now > 2018 National Latino Playwriting Award

 

Submissions For Arizona Theatre Company's 2018 National Latino Playwriting Award Now Being Accepted
Submissions are now being accepted for Arizona Theatre Company's (David Ivers, Artistic Director; Billy Russo, Managing Director) 2018 National Latino Playwriting Award.

The award is open to all Latino playwrights living in the United States, its territories or Mexico. Scripts will be read and evaluated by a culturally diverse panel of theatre artists. Finalists will be judged by ATC artistic staff and the winner will be notified by Aug. 1, 2018.

Scripts may be in English, English and Spanish or only Spanish. Spanish-language and bi-lingual scripts must be accompanied by an English translation.

Plays must be unpublished, professionally unproduced and not currently under option at the time of submission. Full-length and one-act plays on any subject will be accepted. Minimum length is 50 pages.

The physical scripts become the property of Arizona Theatre Company and will not be returned. Playwrights retain intellectual property rights and any rights to the play.

Submission procedures > hit this underlined link to Broadway World