05.21.08
Posted in Education at 9:36 pm by Travis
OBAP Atlanta Ace Camp
The Organization of Black Airline Pilots
Atlanta ACE Camp
Sponsored by
Delta Air Lines
July 14-18, 2008 & July 21-25, 2008
This summer the Organization of Black Airline Pilots (OBAP) will hold 2 Aviation Career Education Camps sponsored by Delta Air Lines. The purpose of each one-week program is to introduce interested youth to the world of aviation by exposing them to the many challenging careers and opportunities which the aviation industry has to offer.
The age range is for boys and girls between 14-18 years old. It is FREE!!!! Delta Air Lines
pays the entire cost.
Application deadline is June 2, 2008. Please visit www.acecamps.org
or www.obap.org additional details.
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05.10.08
Posted in Digital Divide at 2:52 pm by Travis
House panel chair offers network neutrality bill | Technology | Internet | Reuters
“Broadband deployment is a bright spot in the U.S. economy that provides high paying jobs, unprecedented infrastructure investment, and innovation. Why would Congress want to jeopardize all that with this bill?” Fish (Verizon) said.
This week John Conyers introduced a modified Net Neutrality Bill regarding ISP’s such as Verizon and AT&T which would restrict them restricting us, the end user. Whenever legislation such as this is introduced, we hear quotes like the one above from the Telcos. This is 20th Century thinking. Corporations always pull the “government is stifling innovation which is killing job growth” line out of their you know what. What they fail to understand is that because of true innovators such as Google, average Joe sitting at his home computer or laptop in an airport is the new competition and innovator. The end user is now a viable playa da game, so to restrict the end user’s access is to truly stifle competition and innovation. Don’t think so? Remember, Youtube was not created over at Verizon. This is also why the big media companies do not want net neutrality because their new competition which they often describe as ‘market forces’ when they need to lay people off, is killin’ them. Just because you have billions, does not make you genetically predisposed to be a successful online media outlet. You need freedom and democracy, an opportunity for anyone with an idea to bring it to fruition. Too much of American Capitalism is in the hand of too few because it was designed that way from the beginning. Wake up ISP’s and media companies and smell the 21st Century.
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