Reuven Carlyle. FACEBOOK I offer congratulations to the state House GOP for their effective campaigns that have brought them to virtual control of the Legislature. Washington is aligned with a national trend of overwhelming state GOP gains in legislatures. The intentional strategy of recruiting [...]
Archive for November 8th, 2015
November 8th, 2015 - 12:26 pm § in Misc.
Jewish Cowardice In Seattle
Stand With Us is a Jewish organization intended to combat conflation of antisemitism and hatred of Israel. Their main target is the boycott movement, BDS. Here in the Northwest the current focus is opposing the Portland Human Rights Commission’s endorsement of a BDS proposal that Portland boyc[...]
November 8th, 2015 - 12:15 pm § in Misc.
New Method For Proctoring Exams: THE DRONE
Drone deployed to catch cheating Chinese students Drone flies over students at testing centres to scan for any unusual signals being sent to smuggled devices. AJE.IO[...]
November 8th, 2015 - 10:28 am § in The Ave Scene
Dick’s Wins Esquire Poll … Most life-changing burger in US!
In nation wide poll, Steak ‘n Shake, In-N-Out, Five Guys … all lost. The winner with 56% of the votes, was Dick’s Drive-In. [...]
November 8th, 2015 - 3:11 am § in Misc.
THE Ave Challenge: BUCHENWALD 82: Do YOU remember this day?
As I write this, it is now 78 years since this synagogue was destroyed in an event that literally erased the entire history of Jews in Germany. The brownshirts who destroyed this shul were all too effective. That heritage can never be recreated, especially as virtually all the German Jews who [...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Finding the fountain of youth in the genome.
The Long Game: Google-Backed Calico Partners With Ancestry to Beat the Specter of Aging By Mark Bergen RECODE How much would you pay to live longer? What if Google were making the pill to do it? On Tuesday, Calico, the medical research company Google incubated in 2013, announced it had cut a deal [...]
Anthony Washington: Seattle Apartheid
EACHOTHER Growing up, Washington State History made no mention of Chinese American history, Japanese American history, nor Filipino American history. If not for my grandparents, I would have no clue what Filipinos have endured during their time in Seattle. If not for Tsuki Kaneko-Hall, throwing piec[...]