Dear President Young, My name is Anthony Washington. I am a former student-athlete at the University of Washington. I played under Lorenzo Romar from 2002-2004, before leaving after my sophomore year with 96 credits. A few days ago a friend of mine sent me a link to a story on ESPN by Adam Ritte[...]
Posts Tagged ‘corporations’
Big Ten is a step ahead
“The Big Ten conference announced Wednesday that all of its institutions will grant athletic scholarships for the entire term of an athlete’s enrollment, and allow some athletes who leave school to return and finish their degrees on scholarship.” Here is a link to Adam Rittenber[...]
October 6th, 2014 - 3:08 pm § in The Ave Scene
HP SPLITS
Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to break in two, separating its personal-computer and printer businesses from its corporate hardware and services operations, according to people familiar with the matter. The company plans to announce the move as early as Monday, the people said. It is expected to be effec[...]
July 25th, 2014 - 4:51 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Better Than Glass
…. Laforge Optical Challenges Google has launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise more money. Mack wants to refine the design and get it ready to be bought by the fashion-aware. The company hopes to have two different lines in the not too distant future.[...]
July 21st, 2014 - 11:49 pm § in Politics
SUBWAY UNIONIZES!
(based on a report from Huff Post) By 8 to 5, workers at a Subway location in Bloomsbury, N.J., on Friday voted in favor of joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. One (pro union) worker said: “I am very relieved the election is over and very proud of my co-workers for hangin[...]
July 21st, 2014 - 3:47 am § in The Ave Scene
The Microsoft Layoffs
In 1995 Bill Gates wrote, “The Internet is a tidal wave. It changes the rules.” That memo was all too correct. The consequences of Steve Balmer’s failure to rise to the challenge are now in the hopefully agile hands of CEO Satya Nadella. Nadella was expected to lay off five or six t[...]
June 28th, 2014 - 10:46 am § in Misc.
Google Going to Market an I,Robot
While the world awaits Apple’s latest I gadget, Google has revealed that the robot it purchased from a Japanese firm is going to be commercially marketed. Isaac Asimov would approve. The robot called “SHAFT,” was developed with DARPA to rescue people from disasters. In order to[...]
June 26th, 2014 - 12:55 pm § in America, The Ave Scene
IKEA: Nationalizes (USA) effort at fair minimal wage!
Ikea is raising the minimum wage in all of its U.S. stores by basing the wage floor on the MIT Living Wage Calculator, The MIT tool estimates the salary needed in a particular geographic area. According to Ikea, the move will boost the average store minimum wage to $10.76, a 17 percent incre[...]
A Jew Name Finkelman Succeeds Henry Ford
Imagine a “Mark Finkelman” as the successor to Henry Ford. Finkelman became Fields and now, Mark Fields has succeeded America’s most notorious anti-Semites as President and CFO of Ford. Jeffrey Gurock, Professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University: “I don’t think Henry Ford wou[...]
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