Boy of the Van Rensselaer Family

This story dates from the earliest days of the community's life. Slavery was an integral feature of Albany's first 200 years. Beginning during the New Netherland period, and becoming widespread during the latter part of the eighteenth century, slavery lasted until 1827 when it finally was eradicated by law in New York State. We believe that slavery in Albany reached its peak in 1790 when 572 slaves were counted as residents - placing at least one African ancestry person in almost a third of the city's 573 households.

Among the most often discussed yet least understood parts of the early Albany story concern the roles of those of African ancestry in the growth and development of the pre-industrial city. Early Albany Timeline

This engaging portrait entitled "Boy of the Van Rensselaer Family" is thought to have been painted by limner John Heaton probably during the 1730s when the artist was living and working in Albany. It is unique in the visual record of early Albany.

The lives of Dinnah Jackson - Albany's first African ancestry matriarch; Benjamin Lattimore - a Revolutionary war soldier; and Captain Samuel Schuyler - a skipper and entrepreneur, represent our hope for making the African presence a regular part of the early Albany story.

But who were the people of colonial Albany? What were their names? Where did they come from? And how did they live? These are the basic questions asked by the historians at the Colonial Albany Social History Project each and every day!

Albany was a place where outsiders came to obtain goods and supplies and to have their broken tools and implements repaired. This tradition began during the New Netherland era when the community's principal activity involved trading for furs with Native Americans who came to Albany and its antecedents,

From the beginning, Europeans found procuring the skins of fur-bearing animals to be the one of the quickest and easiest ways to turn the natural bounty of the North American wilderness into profits and wealth. This premier economic activity was called the "Fur Trade," the "Indian Trade," or simply "the Trade!" The native inhabitants of Albany at the time of the arrival of the Dutch called the Normans Kill the Tawawsantha.[2] The area of Albany had been given different names by the various native tribes to the area. The Mohegans called it Pem-po-tu-wuth-ut, which means "place of the council fire" and the Iroqouis called it Sche-negh-ta-da, meaning "through the pine woods".[3]

Colonial Albany was one of the oldest American communities. From the time fur traders began to come together north of Fort Orange during the 1640s, the resulting concentration of human and economic resources fed ambition and fostered enterprise. By the time Beverwyck became Albany in 1664, the first generation New Netherland Dutch had emerged at the commercial center of a developing market region defined by the Hudson and Mohawk River valleys.

The Community Economy 

In early Albany, these descendants of the fur traders invested profits in land and sold country products and imported items to the settlers of an expanding countryside. Sometimes they owned mills, processing facilities, storehouses, and ships. Some of these businessmen had direct connections to overseas markets and resources.

basic training in social history research.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech: 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech

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The Photography of Jack T. Franklin

The late Photographer Jack T. Franklin was known as the Gordon Parks of Philadelphia. 

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African-American Museum in Philadelphia.

Rare photos of the March on Washington

Philadelphia-based photographer Jack T. Franklin was just a teenager when he first picked up a camera. Born in 1922, Franklin served as a photographer in the U.S. Army during WWII and later spent decades as a freelance photojournalist documenting social and political issues, including the civil rights movement. 

Franklin passed away in 2009. Thousands more of his images of African-American life are held in

the permanent collection of the African-American Museum in Philadelphia.

Rare photos of the March on Washington

CoderDojo Coolest Projects - the coder - young people learn how to be creators not just users

Inspiring Young Coders & Supporting Coding Clubs 

Start a Dojo today
Girls that code could help fix skills shortage bugging tech 

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Gates and Zuckerberg may only reinforce the notion of the coder being a geeky and socially awkward male. Some parents wouldn’t consider that their daughters could actually be coders, too. In fact, some believe encouraging them to learn how to write software could transform the socio-economic fabric of the world.

In recent weeks, Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook and author of Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, told an audience in Pennsylvania: “A lot of kids code because they play games. Give your daughters computer games. Ask them to play them.” Giving kids this early start in computer science will pay off for the economy in the long run, Sandberg said.

Two-year-old CoderDojo movement, which James Whelton, a then-teenager from Cork, kickstarted to teach kids how to write software. The movement has since grown to see more than 16,000 kids in 26 countries gather to learn to how to write software on any given Saturday.

Black Girls Code

On the other side of the US, in San Francisco, California, Kimberly Bryant, an engineer, recognised that software had been creating new economies. Girls, in particular, were in danger of being left out, however.

Bryant founded Black Girls Code in 2011 to meet the needs of young black women who were underrepresented in the technology world, focusing on girls between the ages of 7 and 14. The movement is now active in seven US cities, as well as Johannesburg, South Africa. Every month, 1,000 girls learn the lingua franca of the 21st century.

“I founded Black Girls Code from my desire as a mother to find opportunities for my 12-year-old at the time to learn about computer programming and to make something rather than just playing video games,” Bryant said.

“I was looking for opportunities for her to grow and find out what her own interests and passions were around technology.”

Black Girls Code Founder Kimberly Bryant Gets White House Nod

Kimberly Bryant: I personally became interested in engineering as a high school student with the encouragement of my guidance counselors given my strong performance in math and science and the demand for students in the engineering field. I really had no direct knowledge of what an engineer “did” or if I really wanted to pursue engineering as a career. I eventually studied electrical engineering at Vanderbilt University. It was difficult but I just determined to make it through my studies. We also had a pretty strong support network within the school, so that helped.

I think that is the key to getting more kids of color interested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) by providing them with exposure to the many career choices STEM allows.

The Founder of `Black Girls CODE' Says Tech Design Needs More Female Voices

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Where the next-generation console fits in today’s video game market

Sony Computer Entertainment’s $380 million acquisition of cloud gaming provider Gaikai suggests Sony’s future may not be in any piece of proprietary hardware but in a cloud delivery platform that brings PlayStation games to any connected device. 

The console era is over — or so a growing number of game-industry executives would have us believe. Social gaming, which doesn’t require the intense processing power consoles do, has been lauded as the shape of things to come. But the recent decimation of social game leader Zynga, which now serves 294 million users every month, fogs the future of the game industry, especially since social games no longer offer the explosive growth they did a year ago. Only two months ago Zynga counted 333 million monthly active users, so the company has experienced a 12 percent decline in its user base.

Socialcam - Free video app for iPhone and Android

Socialcam   Socialcam is a new mobile video application coming to both iPhone and Android. Socialcam makes it fast, easy and fun to capture, share and view high quality movies of life’s moments with friends and family.
 Create videos of any length with custom filters
    Videos stored in the cloud & viewable from any device
    Share to Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Email, SMS
    Easy to browse feed of your friend's videos

The team behind mobile video app Socialcam just keeps on trucking. The company, which is now part of Autodesk, is releasing a new version of its app today, adding a bunch of features that users have asked for, like expanded profile pages, as well as the ability to switch back and forth between front- and rear-facing cameras and hashtags and @ mentions that actually do stuff.

Company: Socialcam      Socialcam - Frequently asked questions
Socialcam adds themes, soundtracks to its video-sharing app

Mary Mary on Their Gay Following

Interview excerpts...
Clay: I’m not sure if you are aware of this, but you have an extremely large gay following -- how do you feel about homosexuality and having a massive gay following?

"Ex-Gay" Donnie McClurkin in Barbados, Compares Gays to "Drug Dealers and Gang Members"

VIDEO: Donnie McClurkin Claims He was "Threatened" and "Bullied"
Donnie McClurkin Calls Gays "Vampires", Rants Against Tonex and Gay Youth at COGIC

08 August 2013 Bayard Rustin to be Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom

As the nation prepares to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, the late civil rights organizer Bayard Rustin is finally receiving some of the recognition that he has long deserved.

Tributes to Legendary Black Gay Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin was an unyielding activist for civil rights, dignity, and equality for all. An advisor to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., he promoted nonviolent resistance, participated in one of the first Freedom Rides, organized the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, and fought tirelessly for marginalized communities at home and abroad. As an openly gay African American, Mr. Rustin stood at the intersection of several of the fights for equal rights.

Rustin was openly gay in the 1950s and early 1960s—even in the South. That is an incredible profile in courage.  It's generally regarded that Rustin's open sexuality—which was very rare for his generation—is the reason why many of his accomplishments have been ignored or minimized by historians.

Freedom Rides, organized the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, and fought tirelessly for marginalized communities at home and abroad. As an openly gay African American, Mr. Rustin stood at the intersection of several of the fights for equal rights.

READ: President Barack Obama's Statement on DOMA Ruling
This ruling is a victory for couples who have long fought for equal treatment under the law; for children whose parents’ marriages will now be recognized, rightly, as legitimate; for families that, at long last, will get the respect and protection they deserve; and for friends and supporters who have wanted nothing more than to see their loved ones treated fairly and have worked hard to persuade their nation to change for the better.

The Good Lord Bird: A Novel by James McBride

Interview Highlights

Gary Panter

"The hard part about writing about a guy like John Brown is that he was so serious, and his cause was so serious, that most of what's been written about him is really serious and, in my opinion, a little bit boring. Not all of it, but I wanted to kind of thrust him into the Jesse James category or the Western category so that people would appreciate, you know, what he really was and what he tried to do."
A portrait of Brown and Frederick Douglass is at the heart of James McBride's The Good Lord Bird, a new novel with an unlikely narrator: a 12-year-old Kansas Territory slave named Henry Shackleford. Brown liberates Henry after a confrontation with Henry's master. He calls the boy — who has fair, curly hair and is dressed in a potato sack — Little Onion, but he thinks Henry is a girl, and to stay safe, Henry doesn't contradict him.

“The Good Lord Bird,” an unusually funny look at John Brown’s violent crusade against slavery

Podcast: Inside The New York Times Book Review: James McBride’s ‘Good Lord Bird’

Calling all comedy fans! The following scenes, set in the American slave era, were produced this year or last. Which is from a Hollywood blockbuster, which from a Comedy Central series, and which from a magnificent new novel by the best-selling author James McBride?

"Listen, don't meet your heroes. If you meet your heroes, you're always going to be disappointed. Frederick Douglass was a great man, but would I want my daughter to marry him? Probably not. That doesn't mean that I don't think he's a great man. ...

David Reynolds’s new book, John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights. Reynolds, Distinguished Professor of English, is also the author of Walt Whitman’s America, a highly praised work that earned him the prestigious Bancroft Prize in History in 1996. John Brown, Abolitionist (Knopf, 2005) offers a complex and profound reassessment of the man Reynolds calls “a Puritan warrior” and “America’s most famous dissident.” A fierce opponent of slavery all his life, Brown acted only after concluding that the abolitionists and their tactics of nonresistance and persuasion had failed.

 To Purge this Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown in 1970, Stephen B. Oates wrote what has come to be recognized as the definitive biography of Brown, a balanced assessment that captures the man in all his complexity. The book is now back in print.

John Brown

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Brooklyn Boheme (2013)

 

A love letter to a neighborhood that nurtured a new black arts movementAn intimate portrait of the black arts movement that Nelson George. A FilmBuff

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exploded in Fort Greene from the mid 1980's through the 90's as told by writer, historian and Brooklyn resident

Community is such an important feature of this film and we love that “Brooklyn Boheme” places it at the forefront. So many of the artists who converged in Fort Greene collaborated with each other (as witnessed in the films of Spike Lee) – the bonds they forged are still strong today, further reinforcing the neighborhood’s artistic importance and impact. The doc shows us the significance of Fort Greene and what a neighborhood can mean in cultivating cultural influence beyond its borders and, more importantly, it teaches us that the artist does not work alone.

In 2004, George made a short film called To Be a Black Man, starring Samuel L. Jackson, and a documentary called A Great Day in Hip-Hop. Both titles appeared in festivals in New York, London, and Amsterdam. He executive-produced the HBO film Everyday People which also debuted in 2004 at the Sundance Film Festival.

George grew up in Brooklyn, New York. His parents divorced when he was a young boy, and young Nelson was raised by his mother; his literary ambitions manifested themselves early on. "At the age of three," he wrote in a biographical essay distributed by his publisher, "my mother taught me my ABC's and I was reading before I entered the first grade."

"Fortunately for me, she had a relationship with a guy she went out with for about seven years. He taught me how to shoot a layup, but more important, the interaction between my mother and him was always very affectionate and very warm. I got a lot out of that that was subliminal, a lot to do with respect for women. So much of that respect comes from seeing how your father, or an adult male, deals with women on an individual basis."

Dismayed by the increasingly violent and cynical content of much rap music but opposing any kind of external censorship, he helped recruit a number of hip-hop artists--among them KRS-One, Chuck D. and Flavor Flav of Public Enemy, Kool Moe Dee and M. C. Lyte--for "Self-Destruction," a single that counseled against violence and drugs and stood in favor of education and community survival. The record became Billboard's top rap single of the year and sold half a million copies. "The idea is unity," George explained in the Boston Globe. "These were very disparate rappers, but they came together as a community. One of the words rarely used anymore is `brotherhood'--and that's what we're aiming for." George, who has long argued that rap can serve as a tool for communication and education, edited a book to accompany the recording; Stop the Violence: Overcoming Self-Destruction put the song's argument into cogent prose.

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Interview with cofounder of Yelp on Charlie Rose last night. Before that Breaking Bad producer/writer

CEO Jeremy Stoppelman
How were you able to successfully tap into communities when you were first starting out?

We had competitors who were paying for reviews, and that creates a mercenary relationship. We weren’t trying to pay people. We were trying to make a site that was fun. So we attracted a lot of people that just loved to write. People were competing with each other. One person would write in haiku. Another would do a free-form poetry style. People were riffing and getting creative, and that showed we were attracting the right type of people.

Stoppelman began as a software engineer at X.com in 2000 and worked his way up to VP of engineering after the company merged with Confinity to form PayPal. After eBay’s acquisition of PayPal, Stoppelman mulled his career options. He could either go back to work at a different company or start a new business for himself. In the end, he decided to go to Harvard Business School.

"I can go to business school for a couple of years and that’s great experience. I can learn some things about the business side that I didn’t already know and so I just took it and went to Boston.”

Charlie Rose is joined by Jeremy Stoppelman, the cofounder and CEO of Yelp
VIDEO: Ice Cream With Yelp's Jeremy Stoppelman

The Japanese-American Internee Who Met Malcolm X: Yuri Kochiyama

The brief friendship of Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama began close to 50 years ago with a handshake.

On February 12, 1965, in the Audubon Ballroom, Yuri Kochiyama cradled Malcolm X in her arms as he died

"Our house felt like it was the movement 24/7."
— Audee Kochiyama-Holman, daughter of Yuri Kochiyama

Kochiyama described the scene in a Democracy Now! interview in 2008. "I felt so bad that I wasn't black, that this should be just a black thing," she recalled. "But the more I see them all so happily shaking his hands and Malcolm so happy, I said, 'Gosh, darn it! I'm going to try to meet him somehow.' "

Eventually, Kochiyama called out to Malcolm X, "Can I shake your hand?"

"What for?" he demanded.

Diane Fujino, chair of the University of California, Santa Barbara's Asian American studies department, details the moment in October of 1963 in her biography Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama.

It was in the context of the vibrant Black movement in Harlem in the 1960s that she began her activist career. There, she met Malcolm X, who inspired her radical political development and the ensuing four decades of incessant work for Black liberation, Asian American equality, Puerto Rican independence, and political prisoner defense. Kochiyama is widely respected for her work in forging unity among diverse communities, especially between Asian and African Americans.
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Economist Education: Emerging markets essentials programme

Economist Education introduces a new standard for e-learning in business.
A comprehensive programme that provides the essential knowledge, skills and tools to thrive in emerging markets.
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What you'll find in our Emerging markets essentials programme:

• Self-paced, online, interactive courses
• Exclusive access to The Economist and EIU editors via monthly webcasts and online Q&A
• The EIU's Global Forecasting Service

Prepare for the future.

The business world has changed dramatically over the past several decades, with much of the opportunity for growth now existing outside of the United States and other developed markets. The first five Economist Education courses provide people who work across borders a comprehensive base of knowledge, skills and tools to thrive in emerging markets.- See more at: http://www.economisteducation.com/courses/emerging-markets-essentials-programme/#sthash.xzzjjuAo.dpuf

Columbia's Manhattan project
TWO Columbia Business School alumni have pledged to donate $40m between them to help the school pay for its new Manhattanville campus. Arthur Samdberg, a hedge fund manager, said he would donate $25m, while Mario Gabelli, a famed investor, will dole out $15m. In May, Ronald Perelman, the who runs MacAndrews & Forbes, a private-equity fund, pledged $100m towards the project.

Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island

Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island
Mac Griswold talks about Long Island’s Sylvester Manor and the family that has lived there since its founding as a slave plantation centuries ago. Alongside a team of archaeologists, Griswold began a dig that would uncover a landscape bursting with stories. The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation describes how the house proved to be a hidden vault full of revelations and treasures, including the 1666 charter for the land, and correspondence from Thomas Jefferson.

 MAC GRISWOLD WILL BE SPEAKING AND GIVING TOURS AT SYLVESTER MANOR ON SHELTER ISLAND
Saturday, August 17, 2013 2:00 PM

Sylvester Manor Educational Farm is a 243-acre historic plantation and nonprofit educational farm on Shelter Island, NY, engaging all ages in farm-based programs.

Sylvester Manor history will be in the spotlight in 2013. Over 10,000 Sylvester family records archived at the New York University will be on exhibition at the Bobst Library from April 10 to mid July. A book by archaeologist Kat Hayes will be published this year, revealing the manor’s early role in the global economy as Europeans, enslaved Africans and Manhanset Indians came together at this northern plantation. Programs in New York City and Shelter Island will celebrate these historical achievements. Also, Sylvester Manor is featured in the spring edition of Preservation, the magazine of the National Trust for Historic Places.

Please explore this website and see how you can play a role in this new era at Sylvester Manor.
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Stop-and-Frisk Data

An analysis by the NYCLU revealed that innocent New Yorkers have been subjected to police stops and street interrogations more than 4 million times since 2002, and that black and Latino communities continue to be the overwhelming target of these tactics. Nearly nine out of 10 stopped-and-frisked New Yorkers have been completely innocent, according to the NYPD’s own reports:

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• In 2002, New Yorkers were stopped by the police 97,296 times.80,176 were totally innocent (82 percent).

• In 2003, New Yorkers were stopped by the police 160,851 times.

Stop-and-Frisk Decision

NYPD Stop & Frisk Timeline
READ THE RULING
Ruling: Judge finds NYC stop-and-frisk policy violated rights.
In her opinion, which can be read in full below, Judge Scheindlin writes:
"To be very clear: I am not ordering an end to the practice of stop and frisk. The purpose of the remedies addressed in this Opinion is to ensure that the practice is carried out in a manner that protects the rights and liberties of all New Yorkers, while still providing much needed police protection.""They were supposed to implement a policy against racial profiling." said attorney Darius Charney. "It’s been on paper for 10 years and hasn’t changed."

In NYPD Stop/Frisk Case, US Dept of Justice Recommends Independent Monitor

Now Playing: Abram de Swaan on Dominance of English

Abram de Swaan on Dominance of English
Abram de Swaan is a Dutch sociologist who studies the politics of language. He tells Steve Paulson that English is the worldwide language of business and diplomacy, though many wish it weren’t.

Interviewer:
Steve Paulson Abram de Swaan is a Dutch sociologist who studies the politics of language. He tells Steve Paulson that English is the worldwide language of business and diplomacy, though many wish it weren’t.

Bankers & Woes

Marxism proved to be a practical failure when the communist empire collapsed twenty years ago. The experiment had lasted some odd 70 years. The crucial dogma was that a society needs a strong state only and can do without markets. The fall of the USSR also meant large parts of their old elite vanished. Though one may doubt whether the new one of Prime minister Wladimir Putin and his friends is that much better. The counter experiment of the capitalist societies over the last 40 years has been what Swaan coined “marketism”: to be prosperous and happy a society needs free markets only. The invisible hand revisited. Business, boards and ceo’s should be left alone by governments and others. It’s philosophy strongly opposes rules, regulations and government interventions. Every activity, each institution, any service should be, and largely have been, liberalized, privatised and deregulated.

100 People: A World Portrait

The premise is simple: If the earth's population was shrunk to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing ratios remaining the same, what would it look like?
100 People project
All of the schools that have signed up to participate in the 100 People project are listed below. You can view a school's artwork and community profile by clicking on the links below.
Lesson Plan
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Who's Your Health Worker?

Answer: 

If we could turn the population of the earth into a small community of 100 people, keeping 
the same proportions we have today, it would be something like this...

61 Asians
12 Europeans
08 North Americans
05 South America and the Caribbean
13 Africans
01 Oceania
50 women
50 men
47 lives in urban area
12 are disabled
33 are Christian (Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox, Anglicans and other Christians)
21 are Muslims
13 are Hindus
06 are Buddhists
01 Sikhs
01 Jews
11 are non-religious
11 practice other religions
03 Atheists
43 live without basic sanitation
18 live without an improved water source
20 people own 75% of the entire world income
14 are hungry or malnourished
12 can't read
Only 12 have a computer
Only 8 have an internet connection
01 adult, aged 15-49, has HIV/AIDS
The village spend US$1.24 trillion on military expenditures UN
and only US$ 100 billion on development aid
If you keep your food in a refrigerator
And your clothes in a closet
If you have a roof over your head
And have a bed to sleep in
You are richer than 75% of the entire world population
21 people live on US$ 1.25 per day or less

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Jobs For Millennial Generation

Jobs For Millennials

Everybody knows that it’s a tough job market out there. One group of people who are intimately acquainted with that reality are the young adults known as Millennials. Opinions vary on their demographics. Some people say that they’re people born between 1975 and 1990, and others put the birth date at 1990 and later. However, when the quibbling is over, the fact remains that Millennials are young adults who are having a hard time finding work these days.There are no precise dates for when Generation Y starts and ends. Commentators use beginning birth dates from the early 1980s to the early 2000s. The Millennial Generation was born between 1977 and 1998.

Generation X and The Millennials: What You Need to Know About Mentoring the New Generations

• Technology has always been part of their lives, whether it's computers and the Internet or cell phones and text pagers.
• Millennials are typically team-oriented, banding together to date and socialize rather than pairing off. They work well in groups, preferring this to individual endeavors.
• They acknowledge and respect positions and titles, and want a relationship with their boss. This doesn't always mesh with Generation X's love of independence and hands-off style.
• Therefore, they are definitely in need of mentoring, no matter how smart and confident they are. And they'll respond well to the personal attention. Because they appreciate structure and stability, mentoring Millennials should be more formal, with set meetings and a more authoritative attitude on the mentor's part.
•  Provide lots of challenges but also provide the structure to back it up. This means breaking down goals into steps, as well as offering any necessary resources and information they'll need to meet the challenge. You might consider mentoring Millennials in groups, because they work so well in team situations. That way they can act as each other's resources or peer mentors.

After Gen X, Millennials, what should next generation be?

Generations

Arthurian Generation (1433–1460) (H) Humanist Generation (1461–1482) (A) Reformation Generation (1483–1511) (P) Reprisal Generation (1512–1540) (N) Elizabethan Generation (1541–1565) (H) Parliamentary Generation (1566–1587) (A) Puritan Generation (1588–1617) (P) Cavalier Generation (1618–1647) (N) Glorious Generation (1648–1673) (H) Enlightenment Generation (1674–1700) (A) Awakening Generation (1701–1723) (P) Liberty Generation (1724–1741) (N) Republican Generation (1742–1766) (H) Compromise Generation (1767–1791) (A) Transcendental Generation (1792–1821) (P) Gilded Generation (1822–1842) (N) Progressive Generation (1843–1859) (A) Missionary Generation (1860–1882) (P) Lost Generation (1883–1900) (N) G.I. Generation (1901–1924) (H) Silent Generation (1925–1942) (A) Baby Boom Generation (1943–1960) (P) Generation X (1961–1981) (N) Millennial Generation (1982–2004) (H) Homeland Generation (2005-present) (A)

 Strauss–Howe generational theory

Dr. Franklin encouraged the high school graduates to strive to be “renaissance men with social consciousness and global perspective”.

How to write a How-To

How to write a How-To
This How-To describes the steps necessary to write a How-To document. Writing documentation is a valuable way to give back to the community.

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ The mission of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is to provide software for the public good. We do this by providing services and support for many for like-minded software project communities of individuals.

DuMont Television Network

 DuMont Television Network

A series of Web pages devoted to the DuMont Television Network, America's fourth television network which operated from 1946 to 1956. After searching for such a page for some time, the author decided to fill the void himself by creating a site devoted to DuMont. This was the first, and is still the largest, DuMont resource on the Internet.

Allen B. DuMont

Albert Gallatin Gallatin Business New York University

OUR MISSION

To ensure Gallatin's prosperity by serving as its catalyst for economic growth through leadership, aggressive marketing, local, regional and state partnerships, education, and professionalism.

The Gallatin School of Individualized Study provides a distinctive liberal arts education for a diverse student body. Our faculty foster passionate intellectual commitments from learners and prepare them for a world in which managing knowledge is key to success. Guided by the philosophy that self-directed learning is the key goal, the faculty seek to cultivate an environment conducive to intellectual exploration across traditional academic disciplines, and they insist on active student engagement in developing the direction of their own education. Our highly specialized and deeply engaged advisers guide students in their intellectual explorations toward an interdisciplinary approach to problem solving.

Working closely with a faculty adviser, the student creates an individualized, interdisciplinary program shaped according to his or her own vision. With diverse goals, Gallatin students are often intellectual and professional pioneers, mapping new relationships among fields of knowledge. Students are encouraged to draw on the educational resources of NYU’s graduate and professional schools and of New York City

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NYU Abu Dhabi is currently inviting applications for Programmers for the Chen Research Group. We are seeking programmers with a BA/BS/MS in Computer Science or closely related field, and experience developing high quality software. Expertise with a standard programming language C/C++/Java is required. Python/Android/C# development experience is a plus. Research experience in one or more of the following areas is highly desirable: networking protocol implementation/simulation, information retrieval algorithms, distributed systems building, and information and communication technology for development-centric goals (this is a very broad area and may include the application of HCI, IR, networking, ML techniques).

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Yahoo's Buying Binge Continues

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