Welcome, The Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals (OBAP)
Aviation Career Education (ACE) Academies are co-sponsored with the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) and other select aviation organizations or
educational institutions.
Our academies include many interesting and educational activities
and field trips. During an OBAP ACE academy, students can expect to participate
in activities that feature STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)
components. We also include trips to aviation related facilities and receive
tours of areas the general public normally never see. Select academies
also offer students the opportunity to perform an actual flight in a
general aviation aircraft! Traditionally, these flights are easily the
highlights of a student’s experience.
We would like for you to participate in this
enriching experience by speaking to these young eager minds about yourself and
your job and its educational and professional requirements. The
discussion will only take about 30 minutes but the effect will last a
lifetime.
Wednesday July 8th, 10:30AM Eckert
Intermediate School (1430 Aldine Meadows Rd. Houston, Tx 77032)
The Houston OBAP ACE Academy will take place from July 7
- 11th at the Houston InterContinental Airport. If you can find the time in
your schedule, please let me know so I can coordinate your career brief to our
students.
The Harris County Toll
Road Authority improves mobility in the Greater Houston Metropolitan area
through excellence in the operation of urban toll highway systems, while
upholding a commitment to leadership, public service, and quality of life.
Position Summary:
Answering inbound calls,
Assisting callers with
EZ Tag questions, processing toll violation payments, etc.
Destination Station,
NASA's public awareness campaign to inform and energize the public about the
wonders produced by our International Space Station, is descending on Boston
next week. If you will be visiting Boston, or have friends and family there, there
will be great opportunities to see NASA up close and personal and take part in
fun outreach activities. Add one or more outings to your trip agenda and
explore the research being conducted aboard the orbiting laboratory to benefit
humankind.
Copley
Square Park: Wednesday, July 8, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Location: Copley Square Park, 560 Boylston St., Boston, MA 02116
Nerd Nite:
Thursday, July 9, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Location: Bell in Hand Tavern, 45 Union St. Boston, MA 02108
ISS Day: Friday,
July 10, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Location: Museum of Science, 1 Science Park, Boston, MA 02114
Please keep the family of efamily member Elwyn Lee in your prayers. Sign the Guest Book in Today's Chronicle Obituary
Ella Theophia Hicks Lee 1920-2015 Ella Theophia Hicks Lee, 95, was born on Feb. 5, 1920 and went to be with the Lord on June 1, 2015. From 1950 to 1970 she worked in HISD as an executive secretary. She and her husband of 51 years, Philip F. Lee, raised four sons: Philip F. Lee II, Andre W. Lee, Elwyn C. Lee and Fredric O. Lee; they attended Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ. She was devoted to the Hampton University Alumni Association, the Tuskegee Airmen Association and the activities of Phi Beta Sigma, her husband's fraternity. In 2007 she received the nation's highest civilian award, the Congressional Gold Medal for her war time work 1943-46. She is survived by 3 sons, 5 grandchildren, and 3 great grandchildren. A service will be held at Dunbarton Chapel, 2900 Van Ness in Washington, D.C. on June 27th at noon. In lieu of flowers send gifts to the Philip F. Lee II scholarship, Admin. Bldg. Room 220, Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia , 23668. – McGuire Funeral Services, 7400 Georgia Ave., N.W, Wash, D.C. 20012; 202-882-6000.
Published in Houston Chronicle on June 26, 2015- See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/houstonchronicle/obituary.aspx?n=Ella-Theophia-Hicks-Lee&pid=175141840#sthash.rizAgBpP.dpuf
To improve communications and keep you abreast of campaign
activities, we created a Women for Turner Facebook page. Please join this
Facebook group by going to the following link:
Exclusive poll: Turner, Garcia lead pack in
race for mayor
Poll uncovers front-runners in mayoral race.
Doug Miller, KHOU 11 News11:12
p.m. CDT June 23, 2015
HOUSTON -
Sylvester Turner and Adrian Garcia have emerged as the clear front-runners in
the first independent poll before the election that will determine Houston's
next mayor.
The KHOU – Houston Public Media
Poll indicates a clear divide between two tiers of candidates, with Turner and
Garcia well ahead of all other contenders to take charge at Houston City Hall
after the term-limited Mayor Annise Parker leaves office at the end of this
year.
Turner, the longtime state
representative making his third run for mayor, leads the pack with 16-percent
of surveyed likely voters. Garcia, the former Harris County sheriff, comes in
second at 12-percent.
The rest of the candidates in the
poll drop into single digits. Chris Bell, the former congressman making his
second run for mayor, won the support of 8-percent of surveyed voters.
Both Ben Hall, the former city
attorney making his second mayoral run, and former Kemah mayor Bill King, stand
at 3-percent. City Councilman Stephen Costello stands at 2-percent.
"There's two tiers of
candidates," said Bob Stein, the KHOU political analyst and Rice
University political scientist who designed the poll. "If you had to pick
a runoff match-up, it would have to be Turner and Garcia. And I don't think that
comes as any surprise."
In election years when there's no
incumbent, Houston mayoral campaigns are basically divided into two stages.
A large field of candidates run
in the November general election, with the two top vote-getters facing each
other in an inevitable December runoff.
What may come as a surprise in
this poll is the number of voters who've already chosen their candidate.
A little more than four months
before Election Day, half of all likely voters told pollsters they had already
made up their minds.
"The people who stay and
vote tend to be disproportionately older, Anglo, Democratic, educated
homeowners," Stein said. "These are experienced people who are doing
just what they've done before: Voting for Adrian Garcia and Sylvester
Turner."
Turner, Garcia and Bell share a
distinct advantage over the other candidates because their names have
repeatedly appeared on Houston ballots for more than a decade.
Costello's has appeared on the
ballot three times in the last six years as he ran for city council, but he's a
relatively new name compared to the front-runners.
"What you're looking at is a
campaign that in many ways has its roots in earlier campaigns," Stein
said.
Hall ran for mayor two years ago,
but he didn't garner enough votes to force Parker into a runoff. King has never
run for office in Houston.
None of the surveyed likely
voters chose businessman Marty McVey, even though his name was included in
poll.
Although named recognition may
play a role in their showings, especially so early in the race, the results
indicate many voters have already firmly decide about their candidates.
"It's worth noting that
among voters who told us who they were supporting -- had picked a candidate --
over half told us they could not vote for any other candidate," Stein
said.
The poll conducted between May 20
and June 21 surveyed 500 voters who had cast ballots in at least two of the
last three Houston city elections. The margin of error is 4.5-percent.
"These are voters who
clearly have picked their candidates," Stein said. "And there's a
high probability that well over half of them aren't moving. And they're not
moving even in the runoff election."
For more details on the KHOU –
Houston Public Media Poll, tune in tomorrow morning to KUHF 88.7-FM.
To allow us
to keep an accurate account of the funds raised by our group, the Sylvester
Turner for Mayor Campaign created a special, online donation page for
Women for Turner. If you would like to make an online contribution to the
campaign go to http://www.sylvesterturner.com/wft-donate/.
Saw a wonderful play over the weekend the Shrine "Lest We Forget -the journey from Africa to Slavery to Emancipation" written, produced, and directed by Norma J. Thomas - awesome!
Open Saturdays -- 5309 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. 713-398-7789
Email nailah@shrinebookstore.com to get on the mailing list for Events... this is a jewel in our community that deserves our support!
http://www.theyearofrestoration.org/ - Go to this link - The Year of RESTORATION!
(FEMA) Federal Emergency Management Agency and
(DHS) Department of Homeland Security Need Texas Companies For
Disaster Recovery Efforts.
Call Our Help Line at (866) 310-4257
There is an IMMEDIATE NEED for all types of
companies to assist with Remediation, Flood Clean Up,
Renovation, Inspections, Debris Removal, Security Services and
Engineering work for both Services and/or Products. All types
of companies needed such as Veteran-Owned, Woman-Owned,
Minority-Owned, HUBZone and 8(a)-Owned as well as Small and
Large Businesses are NEEDED NOW.
NASA Research and Education Support Services (NRESS) is seeking
persons willing to serve as peer reviewers for a program element listed under
Education Opportunities in NASA STEM (EONS) 2014 entitled, NASA MUREP Other
Opportunities (MOO). Information about this opportunity, proposal requirements
and evaluation criteria can be found on the NASA Solicitation and Proposal
Integrated Review and Evaluation System (NSPIRES) website at EONS: MUREP Other
Opportunities (MOO).
Peer review is a critical component of the decision-making
process for awarding projects. Your participation will assist in
identifying high-quality projects by engaging individuals with different
backgrounds, perspectives and areas of expertise in the review process.
MUREP Other Opportunities (MOO) proposals are due June 26, 2015,
and reviewers will be selected based on the subject matter of the proposals received.
If you are selected, you will be notified by email which will contain detailed
instructions on the process.
The online review period is scheduledfor around July20 – August 3, 2015. Reviewers will be
asked to review no more than four proposals approximately 5-10 pages in length.
Non-civil servants will receive an honorarium of $50 for each proposal fully
reviewed and submitted through NSPIRES by the close of the review period.
Following the online review, a panel will convene to discuss
which proposal(s) should be recommended for funding. The panel, which location
to be determined, will last 2-3 days and is tentatively scheduled for the week
of August 24, 2015.
Please indicate your
availability by responding to the questions below via email by COB June 19, 2015
to Misti.M.Moore@nasa.gov
=== === === ===
Would you like to serve as an on-line
reviewer for the MUREP Other Opportunities (MOO) Fellowships proposals?
IfYES..
üProvide your contact
information as it appears/will appear in the NSPIRES system.
Full name
Organization
Department
Position / Title
Email address(es)
Phone number(s)
üBriefly identify/list your
area(s) of expertise referencing relevant experience that may be helpful in
participating as online reviewer or panelist AND/OR attach your CV.
If NO..
üCan you recommend an
alternate that we can contact? Please provide their full name, organization,
and email address.
Full name
Organization
Email address(es)
Would you be available to serve as a panel
member?
IfYES..
üPlease list your
availability for the week of August 24, 2015.
*include limited availability e.g. only available Monday &
Tuesday after 11a
=== === === ===
NSPIRES registration is REQUIRED to participate in the review
process. If you are interested in serving as a reviewer, and are not already
registered in NSPIRES,please
do soimmediately.
Be sure to register using the contact information you provided above. If you
are already registered in NSPIRES, take a moment to verify that the contact
information on your NSPIRES account is current, and corresponds with what you
provided.
If you have any problems with registration or accessing a
current account, contact the NSPIRES Help Desk at (202) 479-9376, or by email
at nspires-help@nasaprs.com. The Help Desk should
ALWAYS be your first line of communication if you encounter any issues with
NSPIRES.
Also, if you know of
colleagues who may be qualified and interested in serving as reviewers, please
share this information with them.
Misti Moore
Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP)
Fellow
Today is Juneteenth, also known as "Freedom
Day" or "Emancipation Day." It's a holiday commemorating the end
of slavery in the United States. It was on this date in 1865 that Union
soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to spread the word that slavery had been
abolished. Of course, the Emancipation Proclamation had gone into effect some
two and a half years earlier, in January 1863; most Confederate states ignored
it until they were forced to free their slaves by advancing Union troops.
From the balcony of Galveston's Ashton Villa, General Gordon read
the contents of General Order Number Three: "The people of Texas are
informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the
United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of
personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and
the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer
and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present
homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to
collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness
either there or elsewhere."
Galveston's former slaves celebrated that day, and formal
Juneteenth festivities were held in other parts of Texas on the first
anniversary. Celebrations of the holiday have waxed and waned over the years;
today, Juneteenth is celebrated in communities all over the country, and as of
April 2012, it's officially recognized as a holiday by the governments of 42 of
the United States. Observances often include a reading of the Emancipation
Proclamation and performances of traditional African-American music, dancing,
and literature.
Plaza Research Houston is currently looking for participants for a couple of studies. As
with all Plaza Research studies, participants are booked on a first come first
serve basis. Not all participants who reply to this email will qualify for this
study, nor will everyone receive a callback. Please do not call in reference to
the study. If you pre-qualify, a recruiter will contact you with further
questions and details.
By clicking on the link
below and answering the questions, you are confirming you understand the above
statements and policies. You are also agreeing to answer these questions
honestly and to the best of your knowledge.
*Referrals for these
studies are welcome! Please forward this email to anyone you think may qualify.
Topic: TYPE 2
DIABETES
Who: PATIENTS
When: Monday, June 22-
July 24
Length/Pay: $350/ 30-day
online/focus group
Where: Plaza Research
Houston facility and online
Topic: BEER
Who: MALES 25-35
YEARS OLD
When: Monday, June 29
Length/Pay: $175/3-hours
Where: Galleria-area
hotel
If you are interested in
either study please click on the link below and fill out the survey.
***Please note: this
link may not work with your browser. If you are experiencing issues, try copy
and pasting the link into your URL, using a different browser (i.e.: Internet
Explorer), restarting your computer, or using a different computer. If you are
still having issues, please reply to houston@plazaresearch.comwith your name, age, and phone
number. Responses via the link above will be given first priority. *** Do not
call.
When you click Done you
will be redirected to our Facebook Page. Facebook and Plaza Research are not,
in any way, connected. You also do not need to be a Facebook member in order to
qualify for the study that you just applied for. This is strictly a convenience
if you, our respondent, would like to "like" our page as another
avenue to be notified of upcoming groups.
Do you know anyone who
is interested in joining our online database (www.iopinion.com)? They
will receive a few emails weekly outlining various focus group opportunities.
Please send the link below to anyone who maybe interested. If the link does not
work please copy and paste the link into your browser.
METRO is in need of several temporary/contract positions for the METRO’s
New Bus Network. The position description is attached. We are need of
individuals with bilingual ability in Spanish or Chinese or Vietnamese. The
starting pay is $15.00 per/hour, but after one to two weeks of training they
will then receive $20.00 p/hr. These positions will last run about two months
in length. They would be excellent summer positions for some students. Although
these individuals would not receive benefits such as medical or dental, they
would receive free Bus and Rail while working for METRO. There is a link in the
job description to our ridemetro.org career opportunities
website. Please refer anyone that may be interested in this opportunity.
