About Sloan-C The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) is the leading professional online learning society devoted to advancing quality e-Education learning into the mainstream of education through its community. Sloan-C is dedicated to providing access to high quality e-Education to individuals, institutions, professional societies and the corporate community. Originally funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Sloan-C is now a non-profit 501(c)(3), member-sustained organization. The Alfred P. Starting in 1992, the Foundation funded 346 projects totaling $72 million, most of which were made to non-profit colleges and universities. Originally an informal organization of Foundation grantees, the Consortium incorporated in 2008 as a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization. The public sector of higher education was integral to the success of the Anytime, Anyplace Learning Program.
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters Best Friends Network In Los Angeles, Best Friends is leading No-Kill Los Angeles (NKLA), a citywide initiative, fueled by a coalition of 50 local organizations, including Los Angeles Animal Services, with the goal of making the country's second largest and most diverse city into a no-kill community. In Utah, a statewide coalition headed by Best Friends has the entire state on the threshold of no-kill. In Jacksonville, San Antonio and Albuquerque, we sponsor effective programs with city government and local organizations to reduce the number of animals entering shelters and ultimately achieve no-kill communities. Through our No More Homeless Pets Network Partner program, which consists of animal welfare organizations across the country who are teaming up with Best Friends to save lives in their own communities, we extend funding, resources, legislative support and know-how to every corner of the United States. Join us.
Eastgate Systems, Inc » Your Autobiographical Brain It’s All About You, Really. Accidental Autobiography: Your Digital Mind Navigating through someone’s TheBrain gives you a very intimate look at who they are. Creating a Brain that moves beyond the sum of its parts usually happens by accident as your Thoughts and ideas grow. Other Tools for Digitizing Your Life? I also searched for autobiographical software and found a few apps that looked interesting but they were focused on asking you questions, required filling out forms and didn’t enable integration of large external file sources. Conventional mind mapping applications seem like a natural choice. Intentional Autobiography: The David Allen Brain The idea of creating an autobiographical Brain was triggered by David Allen after our GTD Seminar. During the seminar he posed the question, “How do you map all your dreams, people, and everything that you have done in your life?” A Thought for Each Decade David’s Allen’s autobiographical Brain organized sections of his Brain by year.
OnlyWire: The Only BookMarklet You'll Ever Need! Hispanic Heritage Month - Sweet! Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month! September 15 to October 15 In 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson obtained authorization from Congress to proclaim a week in September as National Hispanic Heritage Week. In 1988, the observance was expanded by President Ronald Reagan to a month-long commemoration, beginning September 15 and ending October 15, making 2007 the 19th annual celebration. September 15 was chosen as the starting date for the celebration because it marks the independence anniversary of five Latin American countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Who is Hispanic? According to the U.S. Facts about the U.S. (According to the U.S. About half of all people added to the nation’s population between July 1, 2005 and July 1, 2006 were Hispanic. Hispanics by the Numbers Highlights Business: 1.6 million Hispanic-owned businesses in 2002. Families: 23 percent of the Hispanic population is under the age of 5. Income: $37,800 median income for Hispanics in 2006.
Hispanic and Latino Americans Hispanics (Spanish: hispanos [isˈpanos], hispánicos [isˈpanikos], or Latinos latinos [laˈtinos], Portuguese: latinos [lɐˈtʃĩnus]) are an ethnolinguistic group of Americans with origins in the countries of Latin America, Spain or Portugal.[5][6][7] More generally it includes all persons in the United States who self-identify as Hispanic or Latino.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14] Latin American population has origins in all the continents and has ancestries including many Native American cultures,[15] Hispanic and Latino Americans are separate terms that are racially diverse, and as a result form an ethnic category, rather than a race.[13][16][17][18] In the 2010 Census, 53% Hispanics in the US are properly self-identified as white since Hispanics by definition are Caucasians. There have been people of Hispanic or Latino heritage in the territory of the present-day United States continuously[36][37][38][39] since the 1565 founding of St. Terminology[edit] History[edit]