It has staunchly avoided the gold standard of background checks, the type required for taxi drivers in most California cities: Live Scans. No ridesharing companies -- Uber, Lyft, or Sidecar -- do them. Anyone following Pando's ridesharing coverage has seen me harp and harp and harp on the importance of Live Scans.
SEATTLE, Nov. 27â Paul Westphal was fired today as the coach of the struggling Seattle SuperSonics after disagreements with some of his star players.hree years later, after 33 games that season, he was fired by the Suns. Photo: Paul Westphal, left, was dismissed as the SuperSonics coach only days after an on-court shouting match with the All-Star guard Gary Payton.
The Apostle Paul is, next to Jesus, clearly the most intriguing figure of the 1st century of Christianity, and far better known than Jesus because he wrote all of those letters that we have [as] primary sources....There are many astonishing things about him.y the year 50 he arrives in Corinth and it's at that juncture that we think of him then beginning to preach this message of Jesus Christ.... For the next ten years... from 50 to roughly 60, Paul will concentrate all of his efforts in this region of the Aegean basin.