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As part of Google’s ongoing commitment to encouraging women to pursue careers in computing and technology, we’re pleased to announce the Google Anita Borg Scholarship, through which we hope to encourage women to excel in computing and technology and become active role models and leaders.

Scholarships will be awarded based on the strength of candidates’ academic background and demonstrated leadership. A group of female undergraduate and graduate student finalists will be chosen from the applicant pool.

All scholarship recipients and finalists will be invited to visit Google headquarters in Mountain View, California for a networking retreat which will include workshops with a series of speakers, panelists, breakout sessions and social activities.

Award Amount:
$1,000 – $10,000

Deadline:
Usually In February

Website/Contact Info:
http://groups.google.com/anitaborg

 

President Obama urges both Republicans and Democrats to take action to avoid defaulting for the first time in our nation’s history.

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Funny how all of a sudden raising the debt ceiling has become a big deal. When the previous Republican administration started handing out dollars for the war and banking industry, no one had anything to say. The debt to be handed down to our children wasn’t as big an issue because we had more important things to do.

I have never seen a bigger group of babies than the ones who serve in Congress today. Each group wants their way and when they don’t get it, they fold their arms and storm out of the room. What’s the big deal with putting a balanced deal together where both groups get something they want and lose something they want to keep. Is putting a deal together really that complicated or are they making it harder than it should be? This is politics at its worst and the American People are the ones who are going to suffer in the end. Maybe their paychecks should be the first thing put on hold if a resolution is not met before the deadline. But then all they’d do is get money from lobbyists and special interest groups. Oh well.

Playing “chicken” with the economy is not a good thing to do right now. I honestly thought Boehner would be more open to working things out. Guess I was wrong.

 

This is what I love about this administration. They aren’t afraid of trying new things to keep voters involved. On July 6th at 2pm ET, the White House (@whitehouse), will be hosting the first ever Twitter Town Hall.

This is the opportunity for Twitter users to tweet President Obama questions regarding jobs and the economy. To submit your questions you must have a Twitter account and  use hashtag #AskObama so they can track your question. On the 6th, President Obama will answer select questions in a live event moderated by Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder and Executive Chairman.

If you’d like to try your luck in being a part of the live audience, you can submit your information to register online. For recent updates follow @townhall.

And for those who hate on the President no matter what he does, lets please be respectful during the event.

 

But despite the lack of posts, I still get a decent amount of hits and readers are still leaving comments on some of my older posts. I’m not the most prolific writer and I don’t consider myself to be well-versed in a lot of the stuff I blog about. But there’s something about this blogging thing that keeps sucking me back into it. I’ve grown to love the black blogger community and it has allowed me to meet some amazing people. There are a lot of people out there with some strong opinions about society and the world as they see it. Those are the people who I like to showcase and support.

I’m making some changes to the blog and what I blog about. I love the current theme and focus of theotalks, but I want to remove the restraints and give myself the opportunity to be all over the place. The new theme of the site is “Random thoughts about everything and nothing”. While it may be a little vague, that’s how I want to run the site from now on.  My current theme of focusing on the black community is great, but there are so many other great bloggers out there consistently doing it. It takes time to put those posts together and right now, I’m at a different place in life.

So from here on out, expect the unexpected. As I feel moved, I’ll post about whatever is on my heart at the moment. I’ll also be showcasing some of my favorite bloggers and will work to get some of the guest writers back (you know who you are) to help a brotha out.

I haven’t decided if I’m going to start the podcast back up, but I might try my hand at video blogging. Only time will tell. Thanks to everyone who supports and reads this blog. It definitely keeps me motivated to stay at it.

God Bless.

Theo

 

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The compromise framework

 

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FedEx/UNCF Scholarship Program provides scholarship opportunities for high school seniors entering Historically Black College or University commencing Fall 2010. The scholarship Program is funded by the FedEx Corporation and provides need-based scholarship awards to eligible applicants who meet the following criteria:

Applicants must be graduating high school seniors at the time of application. Applicants must have cumulative high school grade point average of 3.00 or higher on a 4.0 scale.

Applicants must enroll at a four year Historically Black Colleges or Universities. Applicants must complete a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Applicants must be Pell Grant eligible and have demonstrated financial needs.

Deadline:
May 9, 2010

Award Amount:
$4,000

Website/Contact Info:
www.uncf.org/forstudents/scholarDetailSGA.asp?id=481