Continental Airlines, Hispanic Education Organization Announce Student Contest: ‘Destino: Latinoamerica’
March 3, 2009
Adelante! Fund joins airline in essay competition about Latin American cultural influence
– Essay contest for Hispanic college students
– Topic: Latin American impact on U.S. culture
– Continental Airlines ticket winners announced at Adelante! Leadership Institute
HOUSTON, March 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL) has teamed up with the Adelante! U.S. Education Leadership Fund to offer “Destino: Latinoamerica” (“Destination: Latin America”), an essay contest for Hispanic college students.
Latin America’s impact on U.S. culture and society is the theme of the contest. First- and second-place winners, who will receive Continental Airlines tickets, will be recognized in October at Adelante’s annual Leadership Institute for Hispanic college students in San Antonio.
“As the second-largest air carrier into Latin America, Continental is proud to partner with Adelante on the ‘Destino: Latinoamerica’ program helping to prepare Hispanic students for the highly competitive job market and leadership opportunities of tomorrow,” said John Slater, staff vice president, Latin America, Continental.
“Adelante inspires Hispanic students to graduate from college by providing the tools they need to take on leadership roles in society,” said Andria Castillo, executive director, Adelante, a nonprofit organization whose goal is to increase Hispanic college graduation rates. “Continental Airlines’ ‘Destino: Latinoamerica’ essay contest provides a way for Latino students to polish their writing skills as they explore their culture and that of their ancestors.”
First prize is four Continental Airlines tickets for any Continental destination in the continental U.S., Mexico, Central America or the Caribbean; second-place winners will receive two tickets. The first-place essay also will be posted on Adelante’s Web site, www.adelantefund.org. In addition, Continental will provide tickets for several Adelante scholarship winners to attend the Leadership Institute.
Deadline for essay submission is May 1, 2009. Essays must be between 200-300 words and may be written in English or Spanish. The winner must agree to allow use of his/her name and likeness in publicity materials.
Judges, who will include representatives from Continental and Adelante’s leadership advisory board, will evaluate the essays for clarity of expression and originality. The contest is open to legal U.S. residents of Hispanic descent currently enrolled in a college or university. All majors are accepted, but participants must have at least a 3.0 grade point average.
“Destino: Latinoamerica” contest participants should submit their essays; a cover letter with name, address, telephone, college name, major and date of graduation; and proof of enrollment and GPA, via e-mail to sramos@adelantefund.org or to the address listed below:
Missile Defense – Deal or no Deal – with Russia
March 3, 2009
WASHINGTON, March 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Riki Ellison, Chairman of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA) went on record today commenting on the subject of the United States and Russia making a deal on the proposed third site for deployment of our missile defense system in Poland and limiting Iran’s development and deployment of ballistic missiles. His comments are as follows:
“The United States decision to deploy missile defenses in Europe for the protection of the American Public, U.S. Armed Forces and U.S. Allies is about Iran’s growing capability, intent and national will of nuclear ambition coupled with ballistic missiles. Any and all influences that can prevent and stop Iranian efforts to build nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles should be fully endorsed and supported. For the United States of America to stop the deployment of the missile defense system in Europe without complete verification that the Iranian nuclear program is dismantled and destroyed as well as the termination of development and deployment of long and medium-range ballistic missiles would put in jeopardy and risk the lives of the American public, the European public and the U.S. Armed Forces deployed in Europe and the Middle East.”
“It would be foolish and remiss to believe that President Obama and his National Security Team would not choose to defend the American public, U.S. Military Forces and our Allies from an Iran that will soon develop nuclear strategic missiles. To that extent, movement towards deployment of missile defense systems in Europe must proceed.”
“We fully support the outreach to Russia by this President and would hope that Russia is capable of halting Iran’s national intent and their development of nuclear and ballistic missile programs. We would also want that Presidential outreach to be extended to collaboration and cooperation with Russia on their missile defense systems, of both sensors and interceptors, to help defend Europe, Russia and the United States if Iran chooses to ignore Russia’s influence.”
NASA, Cisco Partnering for Climate Change Monitoring Platform
March 3, 2009
WASHINGTON, March 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA and Cisco Inc. announced Tuesday a partnership to develop an online collaborative global monitoring platform called the “Planetary Skin” to capture, collect, analyze and report data on environmental conditions around the world.
Under the terms of a Space Act Agreement, NASA and Cisco will work together to develop the Planetary Skin as an online collaborative platform to capture and analyze data from satellite, airborne, sea- and land-based sensors across the globe. This data will be made available for the general public, governments and businesses to measure, report and verify environmental data in near-real-time to help detect and adapt to global climate change.
“In the past 50 years, NASA’s expertise has been applied to solving humanity’s challenges, including playing a part in discovering global climate change,” said S. Pete Worden, director of NASA’s Ames Research Center. “The NASA-Cisco partnership brings together two world-class organizations that are well equipped with the technologies and skills to develop and prototype the Planetary Skin infrastructure.”
Cisco and NASA will kick off Planetary Skin with a series of pilot projects, including “Rainforest Skin,” which will be prototyped during the next year. Rainforest Skin will focus on the deforestation of rainforests around the world and explore how to integrate a comprehensive sensor network. It also will examine how to capture, analyze and present information about the changes in the amount of carbon in rainforests in a transparent and useable way. According to scientists, the destruction of rainforests causes more carbon to be added to the atmosphere and remain there. That contributes significantly to global warming.
“Mitigating the impacts of climate change is critical to the world’s economic and social stability,” said John Chambers, Cisco chief executive officer. “This unique partnership taps the power and innovation of the market and harnesses it for the public good. Cisco is proud to work with NASA on this initiative and hopes others from the public and private sectors will join us in this exciting endeavor.”
NASA provides continuous global observations of our home planet using a constellation of spacecraft, as well as airborne and in situ ground observations to monitor the health and well-being of Earth. NASA’s investment in Earth observations and climate change research is greater than that of all other nations combined.
Cisco will bring its experience and expertise in networking technologies and advanced innovation to the project. Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions Group has a unique combination of business acumen, scientific, economics and policy understanding. Its experts will conduct complex data analysis and modelling, and share an in-depth knowledge of the next generation Internet Protocol architectures to determine how to best prototype, replicate and scale a Planetary Skin to millions of participants.
Cisco is also working on the Planetary Skin program with the United Nations, multi-lateral development banks, businesses, international government agencies, universities, think tanks, non-governmental agencies and foundations. Planetary Skin participants will pool their unique skills, assets and technologies to develop the decision support capabilities to effectively manage natural resources such as biomass, water, land and energy; climate change-related risks such as a rise in sea level, droughts and disease proliferation; and new environmental markets for carbon, water and biodiversity.
Airbus to deliver more than 200 aircraft in Latin America through 2012
March 2, 2009
The announcement was made by the company’s director of Sales for Latin America, Arturo Barreira, at a press conference. He stated that Airbus has firm orders for more than 200 aircraft during 2009-2012. Twenty aircraft are going to Mexico and 30 to Argentina.
Lufthansa to strengthen its alliance with TAM
March 2, 2009
This month the Lufthansa subsidiary, Swiss, will suspend its service between Sao Paulo and Santiago, Chile which will be operated in a code share by Brazil’s “model airline” TAM. Swiss will continue to operate between Sao Paulo and Zurich. Lufthansa will add a B777 on its flights between Brazil and Munich. And TAM is getting prepared to join the Star Alliance.
EL AL to launch a code sharing agreement with TAM
March 2, 2009
The airline, which serves Tel Aviv-Sao Paulo has announced that it is launching a code sharing agreement with Brazil’s “model airline” which will provide connecting flights with El Al’s code between Sao Paulo, Santiago, Asuncion, Montevideo, Cordoba and Bariloche as well as domestic service in Brazil.
Montevideo’s Carrasco Airport plans to become the most modern in the region
March 2, 2009
With an investment of $150 million, the private consortium, Puerta del Sol plans to convert the airport into the most modern in South America. It is increasing its main runway from 2,700 to 3,200 meters in length in order to handle the new generation A380. It is also increasing the size and infrastructure of its terminal.
LAN seeking to enter the Brazilian cargo market
March 2, 2009
Latin America’s “model airline”, which is to begin B767-300F international all-cargo service in Colombia with its LANCO affiliate this month, has announced that it is adding two B777/300Fs to its fleet and is looking to start a domestic all cargo operation in Brazil. LAN Cargo generates 35% of the airline’s total revenues, more than $335 million for an 8.9% growth.
LAN to launch Lima-Cartagena service in April
March 2, 2009
The Chilean “model airline” group has announced that its Peruvian affiliate will begin twice-weekly service between Lima and Cartagena, Colombia on April 29 this year. The new service will be operated with A319 aircraft and will provide connecting service from South America.
Chile and Peru launched a FTA on March 1
March 2, 2009
The Free Trade Agreement between Peru and Chile was launched on March 1. The new trade agreement over-rides the Economic Agreement which was signed in august of 2006, as well as all the related protocols and other instruments.
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