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This week, we announced a new $250M fund that includes outside investors for the very first time. It’s a decision that is representative of a major inflection point for AlleyCorp. Not in the way we invest or deploy capital (our focus areas and strategy will remain the exact same), but in the way we think about AlleyCorp’s impact in the years to come. There are two primary reasons we decided to accept outside capital for the first time.

I first visited Alliance eight years ago, just a few months after they opened in a small Latin Quarter space. I walked from home, enduring a surprise sideways rainstorm along the way. My friend also arrived drenched, with damp curls framing her face. It’s awkward to arrive anywhere wet, but it’s particularly absurd to start a three hour tasting menu with… ncG1vNJzZmiokae2tK7YpqaurJhjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89omKWkmZa7pLE%3D

My name is Andrew Michael Zywiec, and this is my story. For better or for worse, I have lived a life that may be worth sharing, and may be worth your attention. Amongst these pages, you will find humanity, raw and unadulterated. I speak in truths rarely exemplified by the inhabitants of a world that appears to be lost. I remain unsure whether it is lost here or there, however, I remain hopeful that what is lost can be found, and that something must indeed be lost before it can become found.

December 15th, 1995. Microsoft’s Windows 95 had only been available for a couple months. Toy Story and Jumanji (the first ones, not those new-fangled sequels) dominated the box office. And Google was a few years away from even being a prototype of a search engine. And AltaVista dominated the world of World Wide Web Search Engines. The project was started within Digital Equipment Corporation — and provided the first “full text” searchable index of the World Wide Web that was accessible to the average Web user.

Photo: CUPE 1409 members locked out by the Township of Black River-Matheson Photo Credit: CUPE 1490 Press Release Always look for the union label, never cross a picket line and hell mend you if you ever scab! These are a few of my favourite things! When I was a kid, there were US television commercials with this catchy tune telling me to: Look for the union label when you are buying that coat, dress or blouse.

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Picture this: it’s a beautiful early May Sunday that feels like the beginning of something promising. You woke up just in time for sunrise, did a grocery run, and managed to tackle a few chores and a couple of emails. You did laundry, had a nutritious breakfast, applied all the serums in your arsenal, and headed to the HIIT class you’d booked the night before. Then it’s sauna time, shower, and by the time it gets to noon, you’re practically feel-good-soaring in the clouds, wondering if you’re a woman or an Instagram reel personified.

“The Boy Who Knew Too Much,” episode 20 in season 5 of The Simpsons, premiered on the Fox television network on May 5, 1994—a shade under three decades from today. It contains one scene with a now-renewed cultural relevance: Trying to track down a truant Bart Simpson, Principal Skinner heads to the natural places—the Springfield Natural History Museum and the 4-H Club. Both are deserted, because even in the 1990s nobody was that lame.

Psst. As always, my posts are far too long for e-mail format… so click ‘read more’ at the bottom to see the whole thing! Do you want to hear something amusing? When I sat down to write my AMA this week, I actually thought to myself, “I’m going to pick some really easy and light-hearted questions to answer this week.” Ha! And yet, as I perused theKula Diaries Vault for questions that felt relevant… there were so many that really struck me as being important.